Chicago-based SRAM is recalling 54,000 Zipp 88 aluminum front hubs because the flanges can break. About 2,900 of the hubs were also sold in Canada.
The distributor is also recalling 6,400 Zipp quick-releases because they can fail to lock in the closed position.
SRAM and the Consumer Product Safety Commission urges owners to stop riding …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2016/03/17/sram-recalls-thousands-of-zipp-hubs-and-quick-releases/
Which week-long bicycle tour has the most elevation gain — a 457-mile ride along the Pacific Coast in Oregon or a 403-mile bicycle tour over five Rocky Mountain passes in Colorado?
If you guessed Cycle Oregon’s 457-mile option, you’d be correct.
The 2016 Ride the Rockies summits at least five high altitude mountain passes, totaling …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2016/02/28/elevation-gain-cycle-oregon-vs-ride-the-rockies/
The issue of preserving and upgrading the 253-mile-long John Wayne Pioneer Trail must be rising on the radar screen of the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission.
After years of neglect, the abandoned railroad corridor in eastern Washington will be the subject of two public hearings in March. Here are the details as released by …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2016/02/17/two-public-hearings-for-future-of-john-wayne-pioneer-trail/
As a reader from St. Louis suggests, “crazy season has come early to Missouri.”
At least that’s the case for one legislator, Republican Rep. Jay Houghton of Martinsburg.
It started with his HB 2046, which would require all bicycles using “lettered” county roads to display a fluorescent orange flag suspended 15 feet above the road …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2016/02/16/proposed-laws-affecting-missouri-bicyclists-defy-logic/
Across state bike ride organizers are firming up routes and overnight host cities for many of this summer’s week-long bicycle tours.
You may hear more about long-distance bicycle tours this summer as this marks the 40th anniversary of the first Bikecentennial bike rides in 1976.
Here’s a quick list of across-state bike tours that have …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2016/02/11/more-bike-route-announcements-for-across-state-summer-tours/
Ever since the Lance Armstrong doping scandal revealed widespread use of performance enhancing drugs by competitive cyclists, I’ve pretty much ignored the bicycle racing universe at this blog.
But here is a new way to cheat that no amount of blood tests can uncover. A Belgian cyclist at the cyclo-cross World Championships has been accused …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2016/02/04/mechanical-doping-a-new-way-to-cheat-in-pro-cycling/
Actor Dennis Christopher is returning to his role as a bicyclist to participate in the Eroica California vintage bike show and ride in April.
Christopher, 57, played a young cyclist in the 1979 coming-of-age movie “Breaking Away”, in which he and a group of friends figure out their roles in life after high school.
Known …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2016/02/02/breaking-away-star-will-appear-at-vintage-bicycle-show-and-ride/
You gotta applaud any effort to make a cross-state bicycle tour more fun, interesting, and relevant than it could be on its own.
So I’m tickled to learn that the theme for RASDak (Ride Across South Dakota) is the “Grit and Bear It Ride.” It commemorates the saga of local frontiersman Hugh Glass, whose escapades …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2016/01/27/across-state-bike-tour-takes-a-cue-from-hollywood/
Supporters of the John Wayne Pioneer Trail should probably thank the two state legislators who mounted a muddled attempt last year to give away one-third of the 253-mile-long rail-trail in eastern Washington to adjacent landowners.
The ploy, spoiled by a simple typo in a state budget item, galvanized trail advocates into action after a series …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2016/01/25/john-wayne-pioneer-trail-supporters-head-to-olympia-seek-more-trail-funding-and-end-to-permits/
If you’re considering to ride in the grand-daddy of all across-state bicycle tours — RAGBRAI — this summer, organizers announced this year’s route at the annual gala on Saturday night.
The Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa is July 23 to July 30, so don’t worry, all the corn pone from this year’s primary …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2016/01/23/ragbrai-bike-route-across-iowa-announced-for-2016/
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