“I'd like to think I can keep improving, but at this point, I'm here to help Lance. I'm not saving anything for me. I'll worry about that a few months from now or next year or whenever.” …
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ESPN announced that cyclist Lance Armstrong will host the ESPY Awards on July 16.
The show, an Academy Awards for athletes, will support the V Foundation for Cancer Research and the Lance Armstrong Foundation this year.
The seven-time Tour de France winner has his own ESPY honors, as best comeback athlete in 2000, and best male athlete the last three years….
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Who is the kid and why is he grinning?
It could be you or it could be me. It just makes me happy to see him proudly posing with his new Columbia bicycle. I know the feeling.
A 1950s-vintage film of how Columbia bicycles were built at the Westfield Manufacturing Co. …
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If you enjoyed the just-completed Amgen Tour of California, you might enjoy reading about the first Tour of California bike race in 1971.
Sponsored by Velo Sport Bicycles, Raleigh Bicycles, and the Bear Valley Resort, the 8-day road race covered more than 800 miles in Central California during the month of August.
A bike racer, Laurie Schmidtke, wrote into race …
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Those dogged Scottish journalists finally have dug up the official police reports on President Bush's collision with a constable while he was enjoying a bike ride last summer. Apparently Bush lost control of his bike while waving.
The Scotsman reports that a contingent of Scottish constables were dispatched to control traffic at an intersection while Bush went for a ride …
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You've probably seen the Cars-R-Coffins logo — a black coffin on four wheels with the license plate 666.
It's on T-shirts, socks, jerseys, water bottles … you name it. It's the brainchild of Hurl Everstone, 38, a bicycle advocate in Minneapolis who published a newsletter by that name.
Earlier this month, Cars R Coffins got into the business of peddling coffee to cyclists. …
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Cars R Coffins coffee shop in South Minneapolis
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Designed by bike advocate Hurl Everstone. More at Cars-R-Coffins.
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This inaugural Amgen Tour of California is in the books now. Let's hope it forecasts great things for US cyclists this coming season.
Floyd Landis (Phonak), left, carried his 29-second lead from Wednesday's individual time trial all the way through the remaining stages to the overall win on Sunday. He's joined on the podium by David Zabriskie and Bobby Julich (both of Team CSC), who finished second and third.
Just behind, in 4th place …
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Winner of Tour of California 2006
Photo by Steven Hill at Steephill.tv
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