An organized bike ride from Baltimore to Annapolis by 85 cyclists on Monday may have ensured the passage of the 3-foot passing law in Maryland, as well as 3 other bicycle friendly measures during the last day of the legislature.
The Maryland Legislature became the 16th state body to pass the 3-foot bill, which goes into effect in October 2010 if …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/14/cyclists-ride-to-annapolis-to-achieve-passage-of-3-foot-rule/
April is turning out to be a great month for pro cyclists from the Pacific Northwest.
Tyler Farrar of Wenatchee, Washington, won the Grote Scheldeprijs in Belgium last Wednesday, and Chris Horner of Bend, Oregon, earned a hard-fought championship at the six-day Tour de Basque in Spain on Saturday.
A reader informed me that they aren't the only cyclists scoring championships this spring, however. Bainbridge Island native Kiel Reijnen, left, of the Jelly Belly-Kenda cycling team won the six-stage Tour of Thailand last week.
Reijnen, 23, has been a member of the team with the happiest name in cycling for about 3 years. He emerged as the Tour leader …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/13/bainbridge-island-cyclist-wins-thailand-bike-race/
Starting with today's home opener, Minnesota Twins fans can combine their love of baseball with their devotion to the bicycle.
Monday is the debut of the Twins' new Target Field, and one of its advantages over the old Metrodome is that a bicycle path — the Cedar Lake Trail — heads right to the new ballpark from the western suburbs.
To further welcome cyclists, the new stadium has space for 300 bicycles in racks behind the third base wall on the northwest side of the ballpark.
Opened in 1995, the Cedar Lake Trail rolls from the west ..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/12/making-a-pitch-for-bicycling-to-baseball-games-in-minneapolis/
Four years after her diagnosis for brain cancer, Anne Feeley is riding her bicycle across country to raise money and awareness for one of the most deadly forms of cancer.
She and her friend and trainer, Gundula Hennig, set off from San Francisco late last week on their 3,800-mile cross-country fund-raising ride called Brains on Bikes. They are currently in Northern California.
The 55-year-old is the first to admit that she's been lucky. Doctors told her she probably had about a year to live. She suffered the same type of cancer — glioblastoma multiforme tumor — that afflicted the late Senator Ted Kennedy.
She underwent radiation therapy and chemotherapy, and she began exercising to make herself stronger. It gave her some control over her situation and made her feel better both spiritually …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/12/brains-on-bikes-rolling-across-country-to-raise-cancer-funds/
Hats off to Fabian Cancellara for winning the second Paris-Roubaix of his career on Sunday.
The Swiss time trial specialist escaped from his rivals on one of the 27 sections of cobblestones that interrupt the 160-mile bike route and led all the way to the finish.
That the Swiss cyclist is one of the few cyclists to win the race multiple times is a testament to the difficulty of the aptly named “Hell of the North.”
If the distance and uncertain weather along the course doesn't get you, the cobblestones surely will. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/11/cancellara-cobbles-together-second-victory-at-paris-roubaix/
Team RadioShack's first multi-stage tour win came at the hands of Oregon's Chris Horner on Saturday.
The 38-year-old blistered the 14-mile time trial course that marked the finale of the six-day Tour of Basque Country in Spain, taking the championship from Spain's Alejandro Valverde, who dropped to second place.
Basque Country is considered one of the more difficult multi-stage races in Europe because of the terrain. Horner put himself in a position to win early in the contest by hanging with the leaders in the first stage on Monday.
He stayed comfortably within reach of first place until Thursday's Stage 4. That's when he attacked on the final climb, only to be passed by stage winner Samuel Sanchez, Valverde and Gesink. But that move put him within 1 second of the overall race leader Valverde.
In his ride to victory in Orio on Saturday …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/10/oregons-chris-horner-wins-tour-of-basque-country/
The future must have been looking pretty bright for Jorge Alvarado on Thursday morning as he headed south on his bicycle for a solo training ride on Greenspot Road in California's eastern San Bernardino County.
The 27-year-old cyclist from Mexico had made it onto the roster of the Bahati Foundation cycling team in March. He recently had won the UCLA Road Race and finished 5th at the Redlands Classic pro/am crit.
On tap was this weekend's Dana Point Grand Prix and the upcoming SRAM Tour of the Gila at the end of April. There he'd get the chance to race against Dave Zabriskie, Danny Pate, Tom Danielson and other pros preparing for the Tour of California.
But this Thursday morning, Sheriff's investigators say a high school senior made the decision to pass a classmate's car at 70 mph. He lost control ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/10/promising-amateur-cyclist-killed-as-teens-race-cars/
The other night I stumbled across a quirky reality TV show on the History Channel that vintage bicycle collectors might enjoy.
The show is called American Pickers, and it follows the exploits of Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz as they rummage through old barns, attics and junk piles in search of treasures that they can resell for a profit.
Each has his specialty, and one of Wolfe's is vintage bicycles and motorbikes. Occasionally, they'll stumble across one of these gems in their travels around the country. In one episode he explains:
“My passion runs deep for bicycles because it was my first form of independence when I was a kid.”….
These guys don't sit at home buying this stuff off of eBay, they're cruising around backroads in their Antique Archeology van and stopping at homes where they dig into dirt, dust and debris for metal signs, ceramic jars and anything else they think can be sold. It's time-consuming, but it's a way to find the good deals …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/09/american-pickers-find-vintage-bicycles-among-the-junk/
Civia Cycles is recalling 800 bicycle forks because of reports that they can crack or break.
The Bloomington, Minnesota-based importer issued the recall with the Consumer Product Safety Commission after receiving three reports of the forks cracking or breaking.
The carbon fiber forks were installed on Hyland bicycles made in Taiwan that sold for $1,675 to $3,000 between April 2008 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/09/civia-cycles-recalls-forks-on-hyland-brand-bikes/
An anti-government uprising in his home country of Nepal convinced Pushkar Shah to ride his bicycle around the world to spread the message of peace.
Now, Shah plans to scale the slopes of Mount Everest to plant the flags of the 150 countries he visited on his 11-year journey.
Shah ended his 135,000-mile world tour ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/08/around-the-world-bicyclist-aims-to-climb-mt-everest/
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