Spanish cyclist Roberto Heras has been suspended from his team following accusations that EPO was found in his bloodstream, BBC reports.
A former teammate of Lance Armstrong on US Postal, Heras won an unprecedented fourth title in the Vuelta a Espana this year.
If the doping accusation is confirmed, the Vuelta director told Reuters news service that it would be “a disaster for cycling ” …
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The two-day Pan-Massachusetts Challenge bike ride retained its title as the most successful athletic fund-raising event in the nation again this year.
When combined with the totals accumulated through the Lance Armstrong Foundation's Peloton Project and countless other charity bike rides, it demonstrates another powerful ability for cycling to do good. …
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Photo from whmmom at Flickr.com
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“On a good day it feels like flying. It's like we're the only people in the city and everyone else are obstacles. It's really a dead-end job, but it's beautiful.” …
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I can certainly vouch for everything this guy says about his recent bicycle ride on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia.
My friend Bruce and I pedaled this early in our Trans-America bicycle trip back in 1984 (May 19th), and it goes down in memory as one of the most serious miscalculations of the ride — or that day at …
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Long Beach is the new home of what the Press-Telegram calls a “state-of-the-art bicycle facility.”
The Bikestation Long Beach first opened as a demonstration project for cycling commuters in 1996, the first facility of its kind in the US. …
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BikeStation logo. Located in Long Beach, San Francisco, Seattle, Palo Alto. Soon in Santa Barbara and Washington DC.
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Remember the lawsuit filed earlier this year by Mike Anderson? He claimed former boss Lance Armstrong promised him hundreds of thousands of bucks to open a bike shop, then reneged.
The lawsuit was settled out of court last week, reports the Austin American-Statesman. No details were given in a statement to the press, except:
“Lance and Mike have wished each other …
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TM Advertising president David Lyon is leaving to become marketing head at the Lance Armstrong Foundation, according to AdWeek.
Dallas-based TM, a member of the giant Interpublic Group, counts ExxonMobil among its clients. It recently lost Subaru, which you'll remember has had Armstrong as a spokesman. Lyon's arrival could bring more punch to the foundation that seems to have no …
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Being a “spokesperson” can have a different meaning for cyclists than the usual, “So and so is the spokesperson for such and such.”
As artist America Meredith explains on her Cherokee Spokespeople website, spokespeople can be bicyclists who have jammed laminated cards — spokecards — in their wheel spokes. The cards are especially popular among bike messengers who collect …
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