Cyclists Lance Armstrong and Filippo Simeoni withdrew their defamation suits against each other.
Simeoni filed the charges in his home country of Italy after a French newspaper quoted Armstrong about statements he made regarding Simeoni.
Armstrong had alleged in the Le Monde article that Simeoni had agreed to testify against doctor Michelle Ferrari in return for favorable treatment if he …
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Win at Brasstown Bald, and you have a better than even chance of winning the Tour de Georgia. Just ask Tom Danielson, the Discovery cycling team rider who won the mountain stage and took home the title last year.
Pro cyclists will toil up Brasstown Bald, left, on Saturday this year. For us mere mortals, several North Georgia groups sponsor the annual Brasstown Bald Buster Century featuring 12,000 feet of elevation gain over 100 miles. The ride starts early on May 6 in Helen, Georgia. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/04/17/test-your-bicycling-mettle-on-brasstown-bald-buster/
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The approach to the finish at Brasstown Bald, the highest point in Georgia.
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The pro peloton invades Georgia next Tuesday through Sunday for the 600-mile, 6-stage Ford Tour de Georgia bike race. Unless you live in the Peach State, your chances of catching live coverage are nil.
Most of us will have to follow the action through live race updates posted at VeloNews, which really isn't bad because we can sneak looks on our office computer during work.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/04/14/where-to-watch-tour-de-georgia-bike-race/
Imagine bicycling with some friends on a smooth back road in the West and being passed, “uncomfortably close,” by a driver's ed car speeding by at 50 mph.
It happened recently to Bill “Wild Bill” Schneider at New West, prompting him to write “Needed: More Bicycle Sense in Driver's Manuals.” He checked his Montana driver's manual and concluded, “It’s not so much what’s on those pages, but what’s not there.” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/04/14/bicycling-treated-inconsistently-in-drivers-manuals-in-the-west/
1. What Academy Award-nominated movie was based on an actual bicycle race in the US?
2. In what movie were the following words uttered: “Darn. I want some American food; I want French fries!” and “I sure miss playing basketball. I got depressed as hell when my athlete's foot and jock itch went away”?
3. What cycling-related movie featured Rossini's Barber of Seville in the soundtrack and a 1978 Masi Gran Criterium as a main prop?
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/04/13/bicycling-movie-quiz/
Severely injured in the opening stage of the Circuit de la Sarthe bike race last week, American cyclist Saul Raisin appears to be emerging from his coma, according to reports on his website.
Doctors had put the 23-year-old Credit Agricole cyclist in a drug-induced coma after a blood vessel ruptured in his brain and the blood had to be drained by surgery, VeloNews reported last week. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/04/12/american-cyclist-saul-raisin-improving/
US cyclist Saul Raisin, member of Credit Agricole
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Climate change researcher, three family members on one bike, friend of firefighters. Let's update the adventures of some bicycle tourists who have appeared in Biking Bis over the past months.
David Kroodsma, the cycling climatologist, has pedaled through El Salvador and entered Hondorus — completing about one-third of his on his bike tour to the tip of South America. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/04/12/catching-up-with-some-bike-tour-riders/
What was considered a minor crash early in the Paris-Roubaix bike race may have caused the steering tube on George Hincapie's bicycle to break later in the race, ending his chances for victory, Trek officials said Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Hincapie learned Tuesday that he won't need surgery, subtracting weeks from his recovery and ensuring his participation in the 2006 Tour de France. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/04/11/trek-bikes-explains-hincapie-crash-cyclist-wont-need-surgery/
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