OLN is slowly weening us off of 'round the clock cycling action on TV.
After three weeks of Tour de France coverage, the Outdoor Life Network has been airing this week an hour-long interview with 7-time Tour winner Lance Armstrong from his home in Texas.
The interview with Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen airs at 8-9 p.m. ET on …
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Some people will do anything for a story.
Take Joe Kurmaskie, for instance. The bicycling humorist, also known as the Metal Cowboy, has hit the cross-country highway by bicycle this summer with his two kids in tow.
That's literally in tow, as Quinn is 7 and Lorenzo is 5. From the description in the Kansas City Star, Kurmaskie …
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Photo from The Metal Cowboy website.
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People in China used to ride their bicycles to get to work, shop, visit. Film clips of the country used to show roads packed with bicycles — such as the ubiquitous Flying Pigeon.
Now, it sounds like the Chinese might need to get on their bikes for exercise.
Many Chinese are suffering obesity from a sedentary lifestyle, according to …
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Giant Bicycle is recalling 76 Sedona and Cypress brand bicycles.
According to a press release, the rear axle of the bikes is harder than required in specifications and could crack. No injuries have been reported.
The bicycles that are subject to recall were made in China and sold in dealerships after mid-May 2005 for about $300.
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76 Sedona and Cypress models were recalled on August 3, 2005.
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Here's the beach and pier at Oceanside, Calif., from Oceanside Chamber of Commerce website (I had run out of film a couple of days earlier and never restocked).
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Deep sand but great view from this campsite.
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Bicycles painted a ghoulish white are appearing around Seattle to mark locations of car-bike accidents.
The displays are the work of the GhostCycle bike accident awareness project. The activists want to draw attention to particularly hazardous locations where bike accidents happen.
The group collected data on bicycle accidents from cyclists at its GhostCycle.com website for about three months. Then it took …
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Sign posted along extremely lonely stretch of road just north of Mexican border in California. No flood — or water — in sight.
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