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A round-up of some spring cycling news:
Tyler Farrar
Wenatchee, Washington's Tyler Farrar claimed his second victory of the year at the Grote Scheldeprijs in Belgium on Wednesday.
The 122-mile bike race from Antwerp to Schoten is a flat route that pretty much designed for a sprint finish. Farrar became the first American ever to win the race, and beat the likes of Australia's Robbie McEwen (Team Katusha), Germany's Robert Forster (Team Milram), and New Zealand's Greg Henderson (Sky pro cycling).
In the video above, you can see Farrar just blasting past Belgium's Tom Boonen …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/08/horner-2nd-in-basque-farrar-wins-sprint-flu-beats-armstrong/
For the bicycle touring crowd, this is as close as it gets to something like a release party for Apple's iPad.
More than 200 bicyclists showed up on Tuesday night for the unveiling of the Sierra Cascade Bicycle Route, the newest map set produced by the Adventure Cycling Association.
The 2,400-mile bicycle route connects Canada and Mexico via paved roads roughly along the corridor of the Pacific Crest. The 5-map set will be available at the end of April.
The bicycle route marks Adventure Cycling's achievement of creating more than 40,000 miles of bicycle routes …..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/07/new-sierra-cascades-bicycle-route-unveiled-in-seattle/
Three cities in the Pacific Northwest landed among the top five of Bicycling Magazine's list of Top 50 Bike-Friendly cities, but Minneapolis took the Number 1 spot.
In spite of winter conditions that many wouldn't consider conducive to bicycling, Minneapolis got the nod because of its active bicycle culture and the doubling of bike commuters in just a 3-year-period.
Rounding out the Top 5 are Portland, Oregon (#2), Boulder, Colorado (#3), Seattle (#4, at left) and Eugene, Oregon (#5).
The region also ranked high among cities under 100,000 population. The top 5 are Davis, California (#1), Corvallis, Oregon (#2), Bellingham, Washington (#3) …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/06/bicycling-magazine-names-top-50-cities-for-riding-a-bicycle/
Toronto police pulled four large transport trucks into a community center parking lot on Monday and began unloading 1,000 bicycles that will be fixed up and distributed to youth in the area.
But that's not even half of the stolen-bike haul made by police who in 2008 began investigating Igor Kenk, dubbed the most prolific bicycle thief in Canada's history.
In all, police confiscated 2,200 to 2,900 bicycles that Kenk had squirreled away around the city. About 1,000 of those bikes were returned to their owners.
Among those showing up at the center for the unloading — Igor Kenk …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/06/does-toronto-bike-giveaway-end-bike-theft-saga/
A 45-year-old British bicyclist and bar owner set off from Thailand last week in an attempt to smash the around-the-world bicycling record by shaving more than two months off the current best time.
Alan Bate proposes to accomplish the 18,000-mile journey in 99 days, eclipsing the fastest time of 165 days set by Julian Sayarer, 23, just last year.
The feat requires that Bate ride his bicycle an average 180 miles a day, compared to the 109 miles a day ridden by Sayarer last year.
The past couple of years have seen many attacks on the bicycling record to circumnavigate the globe — all by British bicyclists.
The standing Guinness World Record holder is still Scotland's Mark Beaumont …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/05/british-bicyclist-on-a-quest-to-circle-the-globe-in-99-days/
Bicycles will rule the road along a 2 1/2-mile stretch of Lake Washington Boulevard in Seattle just about every Sunday between May 2 and Sept. 26 this year.
Bicycle Sundays is back in 2010, which means all motorized traffic will be prohibited along the scenic lake-front road between Mount Baker Beach and Seward Park.
It's good to hear, but not at all surprisingly, that the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department is continuing the event that's been a Seattle tradition for some four decades. Seattle's new mayor, Michael McGinn, rides a bicycle.
Bicycle Sundays is Seattle's own version of ciclovia …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/04/seattles-bicycle-sundays-return-to-lake-washington-in-2010/
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A group dedicated to the preservation and continuance of New York City's bicycle culture is remembering the life and times of track racing in an exhibit entitled “Strong Backs, Weak Minds: The Saga of the Coney Island Velodrome.”
The exhibit put together by NY Bike Jumble features actual track bicycles from the period, as well as programs, tickets and photos, like the one at left autographed by a cyclist named Tom Duffin Jr.
The velodrome was the last commercial bike racing venue in New York City, opening in 1930. The 1/8th-mile track wooden track with 45-degree banked corners had seating for 10,000 people.
Says NY Bike Jumble founder and curator Harry Schwartzman ..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/02/coney-island-velodrome-remembered-at-museum-exhibit/
A doctor is studying whether regular exercise can slow the spread of Parkinson's disease in people after he observed a severely afflicted man who could not walk, but had the ability to ride a bicycle.
Dr. Bastiaan R. Bloem told the New York Times about a 58-year-old man he met who was suffering from an advanced case of the neurological disorder. He could not walk without falling down, but could ride a bicycle for as far as 6 miles as long as someone helped him on and off.
That brings to mind the story that appeared last year (“A tandem bike ride leads to a treatment for Parkinson's”) that riding the back of a tandem bicycle at a relatively high cadence of 80 to 90 rpms temporarily relieved the symptoms of Parkinson's disease in patients. (video at left)
The two observations are somewhat different, but they do point to a special relationship between bicycling and Parkinson's disease …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/02/parkinsons-amazing-response-to-bicycling/
I have a bad habit of riding the same old routes on my bicycle, so I'm always trying to keep things fresh by looking for new roads. Scenic is good; points of interest or historic landmarks are a bonus.
That's why I was happy to stumble across the recently published Historic and Scenic Corridors Project of King County. Although not a bicycling map book, it contains a treasure trove of new roads to explore by bicycle.
The first ride I set out on did not disappoint. The Issaquah-Fall City Road described in the booklet, also published online, put me on a 5-mile route that has changed little from the early days of settlement when it was used as a wagon road by farmers before the arrival of the railroad to the region.
Originally seen as only a trace on early maps, it was officially established in 1883 ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/01/bicycling-back-in-time-on-old-king-county-wagon-roads/
The TransAmerica Bicycle Route's unforgettable Cookie Lady has been offering traveling cyclists a place to tank up their water bottles, restore their carbs and even spend the night for more than 30 years.
This summer, June Curry is cutting back on some of those activities. Although the Bike House will remain open during the day for touring bicyclists who want a look around, she'll no longer be offering overnight lodging there.
The Adventure Cycling Association blog says a good friend of June's recently told them:
“…the situation (not having cyclists stay at the bike house) may change in the future, but right now, June would prefer not to have overnight visitors ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/31/cookie-ladys-bike-house-reopens-but-not-for-overnight-stays/
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