Greg LeMond is getting out on the road to participate with thousands of recreational cyclists in the Pan-Mass Challenge bicycle tour this weekend.
As Lance Armstrong joined RAGBRAI last week, and George Hincapie is scheduled to ride in the Oregon Wine Country MS150 ride this weekend, LeMond will join 4,000 other cyclists on the nation's biggest fund-raising bike ride. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/04/lemond-rides-in-pan-mass-challenge-bike-ride/
If Lance Armstrong could ride RAGBRAI, could George Hincapie be far behind?
Hincapie won't be riding across Iowa, but he will be cycling in Oregon this weekend at the Oregon Wine Country MS 150 Bike Tour. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/03/holy-hincapie-george-cycling-in-oregon-this-weekend/
This is one of the best snapshots I've seen from Lance Armstrong's visit to RAGBRAI last week.
It's posted over at 2 Wheel Commute, and the blogger has quite a story to go with the picture.
I don't want to repeat it all here, but let's just say it involves four Bloody Marys. Nice …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/02/lance-armstrong-cycling-with-the-masses/
People with serious afflications occasionally bicycle across the US to show that their conditions can be overcome. Few, if any, have biked cross-country with terminal cancer.
But that's what the 42-year-old UK resident Jane Tomlinson is doing. Diagnosed with incurable metastatic breast cancer in 2000, Tomlinson has put the pain and exhaustion behind her and reached the halfway point of her trans-America bike tour. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/07/31/cycling-across-the-us-with-terminal-cancer/
There's a certain sound that accompanies Lance Armstrong on his ride on a couple of stages of RAGBRAI. It's a roar.
As 7-time Tour de France winner Armstrong rides his bicycle in the Wednesday and Thursday stages of the RAGBRAI bike ride across Iowa, bystanders and other riders cheer. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/07/27/a-roar-follows-lance-armstrong-across-iowa/
Committed to riding the Thursday stage of RAGBRAI, Lance Armstrong showed up early on Wednesday for some pedaling between Waukee and Newton.
A 7-time Tour de France winner, cancer survivor and all-round celebrity, Armstrong's appearance is likely to cause a ruckus wherever he goes, but no more than at a bicycling event that draws nearly 10,000 cyclists. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/07/26/armstrong-arrives-early-at-ragbrai/
RAGBRAI bicycle tourists get parties and pie. Cycle Oregon cyclists get warning signs and tacks in the road.
At least those are the extremes of two separate bicycle tours that started last weekend in Iowa and Oregon.
The Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa is legendary. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/07/25/a-tale-of-two-state-bicycle-tours-iowa-and-oregon/
Bicycle Illinois is launching a multi-day bike tour this year that piggybacks on the completion of the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI).
The Northern Illinois Ride begins in Muscatine, Iowa, the day after RAGBRAI ends. The four-day bike ride will cover about 260 miles and end in Chicago …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/07/20/new-illinois-bicycle-ride-picks-up-where-ragbrai-leaves-off/
Some 9,000 cyclists of all shapes, sizes and ages left early Saturday morning for the 27th annual Seattle to Portland bike ride.
This 200-mile bike ride a big event in the Northwest; many newspapers along the route are filing stories about the ride, as are bloggers.
The participants ride for many reasons. The Seattle Times reports that one of them, Gordon Gill, is riding to honor his uncle, Robert Gill of Edmonds, who was killed in a collision with a tour bus while bicycling last year in New Zealand. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/07/16/seattle-to-portland-bike-ride-underway-for-some-over-for-others/
Although today it looks like fenders and rain gear will be necessary for the 2006 Seattle-to-Portland bike ride this weekend, don't worry. It's all supposed to clear up by Saturday.
The weather forecast for Saturday and Sunday bicycle riders calls for sunny weather with highs in the mid-70s in Seattle to low-80s in Portland. No rain. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/07/12/stp-bike-ride-forecast-sunblock/
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