Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa experienced an epiphany moments after he narrowly missed being right hooked by a taxicab and fell to the ground, breaking his elbow.
Bicycling in LA can really suck.
Mayor of LA since 2005, Villaraigosa already knew that his city needed to support bicycling as a way to reduce traffic congestion and improve air quality. He learned more about that by attending the climate conference in Copenhagen last December ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/28/la-mayor-gains-insight-about-bicycling-from-near-miss/
As I was wheeled down the hospital hallway to O.R. for prostate surgery a few years ago, I tried to carry on a conversation with the orderly about RAGBRAI, the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa.
He'd been there with some friends and said it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Just before nodding out, I remember thinking, “If I ever get through this…”
Well, I got through it, but I haven't made it to RAGBRAI. Not yet. I give props to the 10,000 to 15,000 bicyclists who made plans to do the ride and are now on the road across the Hawkeye State for the 38th anniversary of the mass bike ride ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/27/ragbrai-cyclists-rolling-across-iowa-this-week/
Here are some numbers that might be remembered as the books close on the 2010 Tour de France:
3 — The number of career Tour de France championships won by Alberto Contador
0 — The number of stage wins by Alberto Contador in the 2010 Tour de France
28 — The number on the jerseys worn by Lance Armstrong's RadioShack team at the start of the final TdF stage and on the podium in Paris. Represents 28 million people living with cancer worldwide. The high commissioners of cycling threatened to disqualify them for this egregious breach of protocol. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/26/2010-tour-de-france-by-the-numbers/
You might find it inspirational to learn that an 88-year-old man won three gold medals at the Connecticut Senior Games earlier this year.
But the back story for cycling enthusiast Bob Sawyer is so much more amazing than that.
A year earlier, the Bedford, Massachusetts, man had been hospitalized with lymphoma, complicated by pneumonia and the inability to eat because he could not swallow. His doctors had discovered the lymphoma on a CT-scan after he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.
So there he was in the hospital, wasting away. Everyone, including himself, had started to give up hope …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/26/an-88-year-old-mans-inspirational-return-to-bicycling/
College students in a charity bicycling group that supports affordable housing on cross-country bicycle tours are mourning the loss of one of their fellow riders.
Paige Hicks of Chesterfield, Missouri, was struck and killed by a truck in South Dakota on Tuesday. She was a student at Brown University.
She was on her second cross-country bicycle ride for Bike & Build. The group organizes college students to raise money for affordable housing projects and help build houses at different locations as they ride their bikes coast-to-coast.
Hicks was riding the Providence, Rhode Island, to Seattle route this summer ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/25/bike-build-bicyclist-mourned-this-weekend/
No one can beat Mark Cavendish if he can see the finish line from the front of the peloton.
He proved that again on Sunday when he won the final stage of the 2010 Tour de France in Paris.
The HTC-Columbia sprinter passed Alesandro Petacchi and Thor Hushovd on the Champs-Elysees, marking his 5th stage win at this year's Tour. It was his 15th career win at the Tour.
Decked out like a yellow canary, Alberto Contador finished comfortably in the pack to retain his lead and win his second consecutive Tour de France championship, the third of his career …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/25/cavendish-wins-in-paris-contador-takes-3rd-tour-de-france/
For just a moment on the road from Bordeaux to Paullac, it looked as if Andy Schleck was riding himself back into the lead in his battle with Alberto Contador for 2010 Tour de France championship.
Schleck attacked hard in the early part of the 32-mile individual time trial course, gaining 6 seconds on Contador at the first time check and coming with 2 seconds of regaining the yellow jersey.
That was as close as Schleck was going to get, however. Either Contador increased his tempo or Schleck began running out of gas, but Schleck started slipping back.
At the finish, the defending champion had beat his younger rival by 32 seconds ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/24/schleck-battles-in-itt-but-comes-up-short-to-contador/
Another mass sprint and another victory for Mark Cavendish at the Tour de France as the HTC-Columbia's speedster weaved through his rivals to win in Bordeaux on Friday.
While competing teams drove their sprinters toward the finishline, Cavendish coolly emerged from the pack and easily won his 4th stage of this year's Tour; the 14th of his career.
Meanwhile, there was no change in the overall standings as yellow jersey wearer Alberto Contador prepares for Saturday's individual time trial in anticipation of Sunday's championship in Paris. He still leads Andy Schleck by 8 seconds ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/23/cavendish-takes-4th-win-at-tour-de-france/
A British Olympic rowing star is recovering from head injuries suffered when he was struck from behind by a truck while bicycling across Arizona for a Discovery Channel film documentary.
James Cracknell and a crew, including his wife, were filming his cross-country challenge when the collision occurred on Tuesday between Flagstaff and Winslow on Interstate 40.
He was last reported to be concious and making a good recovery in a hospital in Winslow, although his cross-country adventure has been suspended ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/23/british-cyclist-hit-by-truck-while-filming-in-arizona/
The showdown on the Col Du Tourmalet lived up to expectations at the Tour de France on Thursday as Andy Schleck tried but failed to win back the yellow jersey he lost to Alberto Contador on Monday.
The contest for the yellow jersey on Stage 17 boiled down to the two men in the Pyrenees on the last climb of the race. Schleck attacked Contador time and again to close the 8-second gap, the Spaniard hung on.
The two appeared to glare at each other and exchange words. It's obvious there's no love lost between the two after Contador attacked Schleck on Monday as the Luxembourg cyclist struggled with a dropped chain. At the finish, however, the two exhausted competitors hugged and patted each others' backs. …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/22/schleck-wins-final-mountain-stage-but-cant-shake-contador/
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