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Let's get this out of the way: I've never biked RAGBRAI, the grand-daddy of all across-state bicycle tours, and I'm not there this year.
But I like to check in with the biggest week-long bike tour in the US to learn about storms, excessively hot weather, or beer shortages that might be plaguing the 10,000-some bike riders.
That's easier than ever this year, as ride sponsor Des Moines Register is hosting a Twitter, blog and share photos page on its website, in addition to articles and photos taken by its own staff. The newspaper is the main sponsor and owner of the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, now in its 36th year …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/07/21/doing-the-virtual-ragbrai-bike-tour/
Does losing a driver's license for one year sound like an excessively heavy penalty for someone convicted of reckless driving in the death of a bicyclist?
It is in Virginia.
General District Court Judge Glenwood Lookabill wanted to suspend a 20-year-old's driver's license for a year in the death of Fess Green, a Radford University professor who was killed when he struck a car that had made a left turn in front of him in Radford, Virginia. The driver's attorney reminded the judge that six months is the maximum allowed under Virginia code…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/07/19/virginia-law-limits-judges-sentence-in-bicyclists-death/
Sometimes fiction can explain reality more accurately than the facts.
Portland has had two notorious road rage incidents involving motorists and cyclists recently. It's a fact, but is that the Portland bike culture?
Of course not.
If you want to learn about the customs and lifestyles in Portland in which bicycles play a part, there's no better place to go than “The Bicyclist,” a web series which I think could best be described as an online comic soap opera. ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/07/18/what-is-the-portland-bike-culture-watch-this-soap-opera/
Screaming, yelling and an alert homeowner who is a photographer combined to give us this glimpse into an act of road rage in Portland between a cyclist and a motorist.
Yes, that's the cyclist on the hood of the car and hanging onto the windshield wipers for dear life.
According to reports, a bicyclist yelled at a passing motorist in a Ford Escort to slow down. The driver took offense at the suggestion and started chasing him …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/07/16/cyclist-rides-hood-of-car-in-portland-road-rage/
Hungry to dine at the Tour de France but not allowed a seat at that table, Levi Leipheimer took his appetite to the Cascade Cycling Classic in Bend, Oregon, and gobbled down the competition.
The US cyclist who won the Tour of California in February is a member of Team Astana, which Tour de France organizers jilted from the world's biggest race. Not wanting his top form this year to go to waste, Leipheimer headed back to the 6-stage Cascade bike race where he won his first stages in the late 1990s.
Among the Astana team members, he was joined only by Chris Horner. The domestique to Australia's Cadel Evans before switching to Astana, Horner will be remembered for helping another cyclist to a mountaintop finish — on his back. Something he never did for Evans …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/07/15/leipheimer-captures-cascade-cycling-classic-championship/
This Seattle-to-Portland cyclist is all smiles as she rides down the chute to the finish line festival on Sunday at Holladay Park in downtown Portland.
I don't know about the other 9,498 riders in the 2008 STP, but what my son and I will remember most about the 204-mile bicycle tour is the unrelenting heat.
Temperatures soared into the 90s on the final day, as cyclists dove for the cover of shade at all the rest stops and along final 50-mile stretch on US Route 30 into Portland. Many roadside households, especially in Washington state, turned out to cheer us on and spray us down with water as we passed. I shot pictures the past two days, which appear on the jump…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/07/14/sweltering-seattle-to-portland-bike-ride-draws-to-close/
Sunny weather greets early morning riders on STP. Just 90 miles to Portland.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/07/13/day-2-on-stp/
Easy way to cool off at Tenino as temperatures get to upper 80s.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/07/12/stp-heats-up/
Bicyclists struggle up Seward Park hill.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/07/12/first-stp-climb/
Thousands at STP start at UW.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/07/12/stp-begins/
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