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A three-man breakaway survived to win Stage 5 at the Giro d'Italia on Thursday with the hot breath of the peloton on their backs.
Jerome Pineau of QuickStep led the trio across the finish line in Novi Ligure after they rode ahead of the peloton for nearly the entire 100-mile distance. There was no change among the overall leaders, as Vincent Nibali finished the day with a 13-second lead over Liquigas teammate Ivan Basso.
Although Pineau won the stage, it looks like you can credit Japan's Yukiya Arashiro (Bbox) for delivering the breakaway to the top 3 finish.
The break had a 5:40-minute lead over the peloton ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/13/peloton-comes-late-to-the-party-at-giros-stage-5/
The US-based Garmin-Transitions cycling team put itself in the pink at the 2008 Giro d'Italia with its performance at the team time trial, but that success wasn't repeated on Wednesday.
The Italian Liquigas-Doimo team beat the field by 13 seconds to elevate cyclist Vincenzo Nibali into the overall lead. He had started the day in 4th overall.
Previous race leader Alexandre Vinokourov dropped to 6th place overall after his Astana team came in tied for 5th at 38 seconds behind Liquigas. Australian Cadel Evans, who lost the pink leader's jersey after Stage 3, dropped further back after his BMC Racing team finished a dismal 12th place, 1:31 behind the winner ….
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In spite of objections from some users, a east-west street in Seattle will be undergoing a road diet this summer.
Seattle's bike-riding mayor, Michael McGinn, said the re-striping of West Nickerson Street should encourage bicycling and walking and slow down speeding motorists.
Currently the mile-long section of Nickerson between Warren Avenue and 13th Avenue West is a four-lane street with on-street parking. It will be reduced to two traffic lanes in each direction with a center turn lane. A bicycle lane will be added on up uphill portions, and sharrows on the downhill portions. The on-street curb parking will remain.
It's similar to street rechannelizations ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/12/arterial-street-in-seattle-to-become-more-bicycle-friendly/
If you've been thinking about donating to the “Build It. Bike It. Be a part of it.” fund-raising campaign for the US Bicycle Route System, this would be a good week to dig into your wallet.
TeamEstrogen.com is matching the first $1,000 this week to help us get more mileage out of our donations.
Adventure Cycling Association announced on Tuesday …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/12/matching-funds-for-bike-route-campaign/
Whenever I read about Florida bicycling issues, I get the sense that it's two miles forward and one mile backward for bicyclists there.
Such is the case recently for the state where 125 bicyclists were killed in traffic crashes in 2008, the most of any state in the US.
One step forward
The image at left is part of a presentation prepared for the Orlando Police Department Bulletin by Officer Bill Edgar. It addresses the question of whether bicyclists should ride as far to the right as possible. Here's a quote from the text …..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/11/the-tough-battle-to-make-florida-roads-safe-for-bicyclists/
While the Stage 2 victory of Tyler Farrar brought joy to the Garmin-Transitions pro cycling team at the Giro d'Italia on Sunday, Christian Vande Velde's crash and abandonment in Stage 3 on Monday must have brought sorrow.
It's the second year in a row that the 33-year-old US rider and team captain for Garmin has crashed out of the Giro in Stage 3. Last year, he broke five vertebrae, a rib and his pelvis.
Although there's no official confirmation yet, it appeared that Vande Velde broke or seriously injured his right collarbone when he crashed about 25 miles from the finish …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/10/christian-vande-velde-crashes-out-at-giro-ditalia/
An all-star cast of pro cyclists will appear in the Golden State when the 2010 Amgen Tour of California rolls out May 16 – 23.
The peloton has been stronger every year since the race started in 2006. This year's scheduling conflict with the Giro d'Italia that was created by moving the race from February to May doesn't appear to have hurt the level of competition.
Returning for his second Tour of California is 7-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. This year he competes for the new Team Radio Shack and will probably ride in support of defending champion Levi Leipheimer.
The UK's powerful sprinter Mark Cavendish …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/10/2010-tour-of-california-announces-rosters/
Cadel Evans takes overall lead
Washington state's own Tyler Farrar won the closing sprint in the second stage of the Giro d'Italia on Sunday, marking his third win of 2010.
Cadel Evans grabbed the maglia rosa from UK's Bradley Wiggins, who won the Stage 1 prologue time trial on Saturday.
Farrar, 25, hails from Wenatchee. His father, Ed Farrar, is an orthopedic surgeon in that central Washington city who is battling back from a life-threatening head-on bike crash versus an automobile one morning in 2008.
That same fortitude that keeps his father from giving up helped propel his son forward ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/09/tyler-farrar-wins-stage-2-at-giro-ditalia/
A section of the Sammamish River Trail in Redmond will be closed until Friday, May 14, while work crews repair a 200-foot section.
Access by bicycle riders and walkers will be shut down between Northeast Marymoor Way (the western access to the park) and Leary Way.
King County suggests that bicyclists find alternate access to the section of trail north of Leary Way as there's no detour through the work area…..
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It's looking more and more like the Tour of Missouri is going the way of the Tour of Georgia, the Tour Dupont and the Coors Classic. In a word, extinct.
The continued bad economy and reluctance of any major sponsor to come to the plate have forced the organizers of the week-long stage race to set a deadline to learn whether the race will receive a $1 million infusion from the state.
The chairwoman of the state tourism board, which has funded a portion of the pro cycling race in the past, says it has to spread its $14 million budget across the state and can't commit $1 million to just one event.
The head of Missouri Bicycle and Pedestrian Foundation is as frustrated as everyone else in trying to get a funding commitment ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/07/future-of-tour-of-missouri-in-serious-doubt/
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