A memorial bike ride for elementary school teacher Michelle Mazzei is scheduled in Menlo Park, California, on Sunday.
Mazzei, 34, a fourth-grade teacher at Oak Knoll School, died after being struck by a car on Oct. 2. Sheriff's officials said the driver, Theodore Charles Thornbrough, 68, of Westminster, Colorado, was distracted while reading a roadsign and veered the 1998 Mercedes 560 SL …
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Menlo Park Elementary School teacher Michelle Mazzei, who died in collision with automobile on Oct. 2.
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Working on a flat along C&O Canal towpath in Maryland.
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A pair of cyclists, one loaded, one not, pedaling along C&O Canal towpath in Maryland.
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The Allegheny Trail Alliance is a coalition of seven rails to trails organizations building the Great Allegheny Passage, a 150 mile biking and hiking trail connecting Cumberland and Pittsburgh. The connection between the Passage and the C & O Canal Towpath is expected to be finished in 2006, allowing cyclists to ride from near Pittsburgh to Washington, DC, on …
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Let's say I coast down a hill near my house at 20 mph and return at 10 mph. What's my average speed on the hill?
No. The answer is not 15 mph. …
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I quickly consulted the calendar when I saw the item on the E-Composites website that a bicycle frame-maker was using bamboo. I confirmed it wasn't April Fool's Day.
The southern California high-performance bike frame-maker Calfee Design is using bamboo in one of its designs. The company is owned by Craig Calfee, whose early creations under the Carbonframes brand were used by Greg LeMond …
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Calfee Design is making a bamboo road bike frame. The frame weighs in at 4 pounds, and reportedly does well at damping road vibration.
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I picked up the story of Helen Roberts when she left Colorado to ride her bicycle to Hurricane Katrina's destruction zone.
A city in her area had adopted the small southern Mississippi River town of Pearlington and she felt compelled to volunteer. She bicycled nearly to Baton Rouge, where she caught a ride to Pearlington.
What's going on in Pearlington? Clayton James …
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No, this isn't the bike path to hell, although it sounds like it.
Here in the Pacific NW, cyclists are accustomed to hearing bike path objections from neighbors who don't like the idea of cyclists pedaling too close to their homes on rail-to-trails (like train locomotives are better?).
In Melbourne, Australia, it's three chemical companies who are fighting the proposed path …
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