Your basic black duffel bag personalized for easy recognition at a bicycle tour.
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You have to take the bad with the good, and that certainly goes for week-long, cross-state bicycle tours.
Whether there are 200 or 2,000 cyclists on these organized bicycling events, don't be surprised if a few things don't go to your liking. It takes years for the organizers to work out the kinks, and even then things crop up that nobody could expect. Plus, there are plenty of annoyances over which they have no control …
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No matter how many people are riding on a bicycle tour, there are never enough portable toilets.
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Now that you've congratulated yourself on a satisfying 45-mile weekend bicycle ride, read this: At 9 o'clock Sunday morning 35 solo cyclists left Oceanside, California, for a 3,052-mile cross-country ride that they hope to finish in 8 or 9 days in Atlantic City.
The Race Across America (RAAM) — billed as the world's toughest bicycling endurance event — hit the road Sunday for the 25th time. …
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Race Across America
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A killer combination of cycling skills in the time trial and mountain stages paid off for American Levi Leipheimer who won the week-long Dauphiné Libéré bike race on Sunday.
The 32-year-old leader of the German Gerolsteiner team earned the championship without winning a single stage, but finishing among the top four (all Americans) in Wednesday's time trial and then staying near front in the following mountain stages. …
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Spanish climbing specialist Iban Mayo rose out of two years of bicycling obscurity to win Saturday's 96-mile stage of the Dauphiné Libéré bike race.
Meanwhile, American Levi Leipheimer increased his overall margin in the week-long race which ends Sunday by finishing just one-and-a-half minutes behind Mayo, who sits in 15th overall. …
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How long can Levi Leipheimer hold onto the yellow jersey at the Dauphiné Libéré bike race, which ends Sunday in Grenoble?
On the combined strengths of his time-trial abilities and climbing skills the leader of the Gerolsteiner team leader has achieved and retained the yellow jersey for two days without winning a stage. And more mountains loom in the distance. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/09/levi-leipheimer-holds-lead-in-dauphine-libere-bike-race/
The Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team will throw its best bicycle racers at the peloton in the first half of the Tour de France, then support whoever is in the top position.
Unlike past years when the team rode in support of Lance Armstrong from Day One, Johan Bruyneel said, this year the team will remain flexible. …
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Levi Leipheimer rode into the yellow jersey atop Mount Ventoux at the Dauphiné Libéré bike race on Thursday.
The Santa Rosa, California, resident climbed into the overall lead by finishing just 15 seconds behind stage winner Denis Menchov. Together with Christophe Moreau, the three attacked the peloton on the climb with Leipheimer setting the pace most of the way. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/08/americas-leipheimer-takes-lead-at-dauphine-libere-bike-race/
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