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A lot of news came out of the National Bike Summit in Washington DC earlier this month, such as the Google maps route finder for bicycles. It also marked the unveiling of a public awareness campaign entitled People for Bikes.
The idea of the mobilization effort by Bikes Belong and the SRAM Cycling Fund is to sign up 1 million people in support of bicycling so we can speak with one powerful voice and get the attention of policy makers, newspaper and television, and the general public.
Now, considering that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced soon after the summit that bicycle transportation will be treated equally with motorized transportation, you might think that the tough work is done.
Not hardly …..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/30/are-you-one-of-the-people-for-bikes/
In case there was any doubt, the US-based teams of Lance Armstrong, George Hincapie, Cadel Evans, Christian Vande Velde and Mark Cavendish will compete in the Tour de France this year.
Organizers of the Tour de France named four US-based pro cycling teams among the 22 chosen. HTC-Columbia had an automatic invitation; Team RadioShack, BMC Racing, and Garmin-Transitions were all invited as wild cards.
Although the teams are by no means exclusively manned by American cyclists, it does mean the US will be well-represented when the three-week race rolls out in the Netherlands on July 3. The bike race ends in Paris on July 25.
Other wild card teams invited to the race are Team Sky, Katusha, and Cervelo TestTeam …
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The practice of doctors making house calls is a thing of the past, but these medical students think nothing of embarking on a cross-country bicycle tour.
About two dozen future doctors will leave San Diego this week to raise money and awareness for the Heal Africa and World Bicycle Relief organizations.
This is the fifth year that groups of med students have taken a Ride for World Health bicycle tour across the US. Each year they've raised between $60,000 and $80,000 for different non-governmental agencies that provide medical care to developing nations.
The entourage plans to leave San Diego on Thursday. Members will ride 75 to 100 miles a day ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/29/medical-students-use-bikes-to-deliver-message-about-health-care/
Embarking on a Pan-American bicycle tour is by no means commonplace these days, but adventurers are undertaking it more frequently.
That wasn't the case in 1974, when 18-year-old Keith Jackson, at right, left the comforts of his home in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the rigors of an 18,000-mile bike journey from Alaska to the southernmost tip of Argentina.
Jackson was one of the first and one of the youngest. Recently, that path has become more well-traveled.
Just this past winter, Scotsman Mark Beaumont finished the bike trek, which he blogged about at Cycling the Americas. Shortly before that, three Americans accomplished the feat, reported at their blog Riding the Spine.
There is even a family of four ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/28/remembering-a-teen-agers-panamerican-bike-tour/
The first showdown of the year between Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador ended with the Spaniard crossing the finish line ahead of the Texan in Stage 1 of the Criterium International on Saturday.
Contador finished 1-minute-13 behind the winner and Armstrong finished 4:51 behind.
Sunday update: Armstrong finished 17 places ahead on Contador in the lead group in Stage 2, but with the same time. In the Stage 3 time trial, Contador finished in 2nd place, 2 seconds behind the winner, David Millar of Garmin. Armstrong finished in 15th place, 19 seconds behind Millar.
Pierrick Fedrigo survived in yellow to take the overall win.
But that contest between the two rivals on last year's Astana cycling team was secondary to the stage win by Frenchman …
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The Adventure Cycling Association is throwing parties in Seattle, Portland and Eugene this week and San Francisco and Santa Cruz next week to celebrate the unveiling of its newest bicycle touring route.
The Sierra Cascades Bicycle Route rolls for 2,391 miles between Sumas, Washington, on the Canadian border and Tecate, California, on the Mexican border.
Printed maps of the route are available in mid-April.
Executive director Jim Sayer and cartographer Jenn Milyko will be on hand at the receptions in those three Northwest cities to unveil the routes and bring us up-to-date on other Adventure Cycling projects…
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There's isn't much positive news to send back home to bicyclists from the state capitols this year.
One of the few bright spots came from Mississippi, where the State Legislature approved a bill requiring motorists give bicyclists 3 feet of clearance when passing.
(That is Maryland's One Less Car president, Greg Cantori, at left demonstrating what three feet looks like when passing.)
Similar bills were either rejected or ignored in 7 other states — Idaho, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, South Dakota, Virginia and Washington. Iowa may still get some bicycle safety provisions passed, however, and Vermont is still considering a “due care” passing bill …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/26/scorecard-for-3-foot-passing-bills-in-2010-1-for-9/
Yellowstone National Park has opened newly snow-cleared sections of road to bicycles already this spring before reopening the routes to motor vehicles.
Glacier National Park in Montana is clearing snow off roads and expects to open them to cyclists soon.
Meanwhile, snow removal crews, left, from the Washington Department of Transportation on Monday began running snow plows along the North Cascades Highway that cuts through the North Cascades National Park in preparation for opening the road with mile-high passes.
It's one of the rites of spring in the western states where snowfalls bury roads with some of the most spectacular scenery for several months out of the year ..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/24/spring-bicycling-opens-in-some-national-parks/
Hitting the last leg of a bicycle ride near my home on a beautiful spring afternoon on Tuesday, I stumbled on this scene along southbound Interstate 405 between Bellevue and Renton.
Bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic crawling along as far as the eye could see, right next to a wide open bike lane.
I wondered if those people in the cars and trucks thought about what it would be like to ride along this stretch on a bicycle. They probably get to think about it a lot. This backup isn't uncommon here; it's pretty much a daily occurrence.
It got me to thinking about US Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's announcement about a major policy revision that puts walking and bicycling on an equal footing ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/24/if-you-rode-a-bicycle-youd-be-home-by-now/
Did you buy a bicycle off Seattle's Craiglist recently from a guy who advertised “Road Bikes Galore!”?
You shouldn't be surprised that there's a very good chance the bike was stolen.
The latest stolen bicycle caper comes from a 10-by-10-foot storage unit in Seattle's Lake City neighborhood filled “floor to ceiling” with bikes and bike parts. Two suspects in the case apparently lived in the storage unit.
It doesn't rival the Toronto crime spree that scored nearly 3,000 bikes, but it's amazing by local standards ……
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/23/suspected-chop-shop-bicycles-sold-on-craigslist/
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