There aren't many bike paths that could be closed by a tunnel collapse. The Route of Hiawatha in Idaho is one of them.
The 15-mile crushed gravel bike path leads cyclists through 9 tunnels and 7 high-steel railroad trestles between the Montana border and the abandoned town of Roland in Idaho.
The path is the Milwaukee Railroad's old railroad bed …
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Even with the best team tactics, it all comes down to the sprinter at the finish line.
Italian cyclist Alessandro Petacchi, looking for his 5th win at the Vuelta a Espana, couldn't quite pass fellow countryman Paolo Bettini in a 20-man sprint in Valladoid.
Petacchi's Fassa Bortolo team set up a five-man train to the finish, but crafty Bettini …
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The Pacific Northwest's largest bicycle club has decided to donate all the proceeds from this upcoming Sunday's Cascade Spawning Cycle to the American Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Disasater Relief Fund.
I believe this is the second year for the Cascade Bicycle Club's spawning cycle bike tour that features four bike loops around Seattle on Sunday, Sept. 18. …
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“With a real deep voice you have to say, 'Go Home!', and then have a water bottle ready to squirt in their face.”
Michele Kinzer of St. Charles, Illinois, telling how she'll deal with dogs that might chase her during the first Illinois Great Rivers Ride, a week-long 385-mile ride along the Mississippi and Rock rivers.
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Spaniard cyclist Roberto Heras used the last serious mountain stage in the Vuelta a Espana to knock off Russian Denis Menchov, who had led the Grand Tour for the past 6 stages.
The 3-time winner of the 3-week Spanish bicycle road race attacked on a steep climb about 27 miles from the end, and with the help from Liberty Seguros teammates …
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Spanish cyclist Eladio Jimenez joined a breakaway of 12 other bicyclists some 16 miles into Saturday's Vuelta a Espana stage.
He clung to the lead all the way to the finish of the 107-mile race, keeping up his pace as the others dropped off the 9-mile climb up the average 6.5% grade — tilting to 13% in places — to …
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(Updated 9/10/05) The International Cycling Union says it cannot judge whether Lance Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs in 1999 because it has no evidence.
The Swiss-based federation that oversees professional cycling reported that no laboratories or anti-doping agencies have provided evidence that Armstrong used blood-doping EPO, as alleged in French newspaper L'Equipe.
The UCI said last month that it would look into the …
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A Colombian cyclist celebrated too soon in Friday's stage of the Vuelta a Espana when he confused the King of the Mountains marker for the finish line.
Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano (Davitamon) raised his arms in victory about 200 yards from the finish, but Samuel Sanchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) raced past and won the stage. “Sanchez just looked back and laughed,” according to …
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