Those of you who have seen or heard of DeSalvo bicycle frames might be surprised to learn that it is literally a one-man operation. That man is Mike DeSalvo.
The Ashland (Oregon) Daily Tidings published an article on its hometown frame-builder recently, reporting that DeSalvo sells 110 to 130 bike frames a year from the shop in back of his home. …
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Michael Killian introduced his Sideways Bike invention to the world this weekend.
Will biking ever be the same? Probably so.
The engineer from Dublin, Ireland, displayed the bicycle with independently steerable front and rear wheels at the annual British Invention Show in the UK. An enterprising reporter from Reuters mentioned it in his invention show story, along with a Viagra-like …
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Another one of Killian's “sideways” bikes. More at his website.
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More Michael Killian bicycles at his website.
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Lance Armstrong and 6,500 close and personal friends will ride their bikes anywhere from 7 to 100 miles Sunday morning on the roads east of Austin.
It's time for the 9th annual Ride for the Roses, a major fund-raiser for the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
Cyclists have raised $7.3 million for this year's ride, compared to $5.6 million in 2004, reports the …
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It's not uncommon to overpack when starting out on a cross-country bicycle tour.
You soon learn that the comfort of an extra sweater, long pants or other clothing isn't worth the struggle of lugging it over hill after hill.
So when Mary Tiller and Amanda Barnett set out on their cross-country trip from Anacortes, Washington, to Bar Harbor, Maine, they …
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The Great Allegheny Passage sounds like something blazed for grisly pioneers in deerskin, not cyclists in spandex.
But a group of folks from everyday walks of life is creating this rail-to-trail route.
They say that as early as 2006 it will carry cyclists all the way from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cumberland, Maryland, a distance of about 150 miles.
At Cumberland, cyclists can pick up the C&O Canal towpath, which is an ever-descending path along the Potomac River all the way to Washington DC …
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Donald Stathos, the former legislator who penned Oregon's bicycle law, died Thursday at age 81.
The Republican state representative was responsible for Oregon's law that set aside 1 percent of all state highway funds to build and take care of bike and hike paths.
An obituary in The Mail Tribune reports that several other states have since passed similar laws….
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For those of you at home who are keeping score, the Lance Armstrong bike beat the Roberto Heras bike in the charity auction sweepstakes this week.
The diamond-studded Madone 5.9 SL donated by Trek to Richardson's Bike Mart in Dallas brought $75,000 at the Lance Armstrong Foundation's gala auction in New York City, reports BikeBiz.com.…
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