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Here it is Thursday evening, four days after Sunday's start of the Race Across America for solo cyclists, and Jure Robic has passed the halfway point in the 3,000-mile race.
Robic is the 43-year-old ultra-endurance athlete from Slovenia who is attempting his fourth solo win at RAAM. Early estimates put him across the finish line in Annapolis, Maryland, sometime on Monday afternoon or evening.
The live coverage of RAAM notes that Robic had been bucking stiff winds in western Kansas overnight, yet he's still some 180 miles ahead of the closest three solo men trailing him — David Haase, Mark Pattinson, Julian Sanz Garcia. From the start in Oceanside on Sunday, Robic is averaging 15.2 mph, including catnaps …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/06/13/crashes-antelope-races-and-saddle-sores-at-raam/
Spring is the best time of year for bicycling Glacier National Park in northern Montana.
That's when adventurous bicyclists celebrate the few weeks that the high-country roads are passable, but gates block access to all motor vehicle traffic except snow plows.
It's especially true on the popular Going-to-the-Sun Road that runs through the park and up and over Logan Pass. This route gets so busy that restrictions for bicycles are posted during the summer months …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/06/12/spring-is-best-time-for-bicycling-glacier-national-park/
While week-long bicycle riders across Nebraska (BRAN) and South Dakota (Tour de Kota) have been facing wind and cool temperatures this week, Bicycle Ride Across Georgia cyclists are sweltering in the heat.
Temperatures are hovering in the upper 90s for cyclists riding the 413 miles from Oxford (east of Atlanta) to St. Simon's Island on the coast, where the temperature is finally expected to be cooler.
One of the oldest cross-state bike tours, this is the 29th year for BRAG, which is seeing participation up a couple of hundred riders from last year. Registration is about 1,800 riders, which includes the three-day BRAG Lite cyclists …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/06/11/bicycling-in-brag-heats-up/
Would a new bicycle set you free?
Just explain how in an essay and you might just win a new set of wheels if you live in Seattle, Portland or San Francisco.
The three cities are among five that have been chosen in Bicycling magazine's BikeTown USA this year. The others are Columbus, Ohio, and Lincoln, Nebraska …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/06/11/biketown-usa-returns-to-pacific-northwest-and-california/
For those of you keeping score at home, US cyclists are tearing up the early stages of the Dauphiné Libéré that's happening through Sunday this week in France.
On Sunday, Astana's Levi Leipheimer beat the field to win the prologue into Avignon. He previously wore the yellow jersey this year as winner of the Tour of California.
On Tuesday, High Road's George Hincapie won Stage 2 in Vienne by launching an attack about a kilometer from the finish. The strong rider held off the field, avoiding a mass sprint at the finish. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/06/11/leipheimer-and-hincapie-winners-in-france/
You better not dawdle on the Bicycle Ride Across Nebraska this week, or else you might get “the clapper.”
That's the wake-up call from Kelly Smith, a volunteer who rides in a SAG wagon. The clapper is a plastic noise-maker that Smith shakes to encourage cyclists who look tired or are getting beaten down by headwinds on this week's BRAN that's covering 454 miles.
Smith, you'll know him by his coonskin cap, is just one of the volunteers helping the 600-some cyclists in this year's ride that runs through Saturday.
Meanwhile, some 425 cyclists are plowing across eastern South Dakota in the 4th annual Argus Leader Tour de Kota. About 300 more are riding shorter versions of the week-long bike tour…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/06/10/bike-tours-rolling-through-nebraska-and-south-dakota/
Crews are stocking up on caffeine and butt blister creme in southern California this weekend as most solo cyclists in the 27th annual Race Across America prepare to set off from the Oceanside pier on Sunday.
Some 250 cyclists are participating in this year's cross-country ultra bicycling event in the solo and team categories. The route will take the cyclists some 3,000 miles to the new finish in Annapolis, Maryland.
Unbelieveably, the winner of the solo ride usually rolls across the finish line about 8 or 9 days after the start. For three of the past four years, that person has been Jure Robic, a Slovenian cyclist. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/06/06/race-across-america-starts-this-weekend/
It sounds like the hit-and-run case of a bicyclist killed in Ohio's Tour of the Scioto River Valley last month will go to a county grand jury.
Pike County prosecutor Robert Junk told the Columbus Dispatch that he plans to ask the grand jury to indict a motorist on felony charges related to the death, although he hasn't decided what charges to seek.
Junk says he's awaiting crash-reconstruction details from the scene and the final autopsy report. Junk already has seen the initial report of the State Police investigation into the death of William Crowley, the 57-year-old physician from Michigan who was struck from behind during the second morning of the ride …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/06/06/felony-charges-sought-in-death-of-tosrv-bike-tour-rider/
Cycling's master tactician Johan Bruyneel released a book –“We Might as Well Win” — and plans to visit Seattle and Portland on his 11-city tour to peddle the tome.
Four of his book signings, including the two in the Pacific Northwest, occur during the Tour de France, July 5 – 27. That won't be a problem for the Belgian directeur sportif for the Astana squad, as the organizers of the Tour have publically stated they won't invite his team.
Of course, the Giro d'Italia officials said also said they wouldn't invite Astana up until a week before that race, when they changed their minds. Astana's Alberto Contador won the Giro last Sunday …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/06/06/johan-bruyneel-writes-book-11-city-tour-includes-seattle-portland/
Seventy-six college students are spending their summer vacations in the bike saddle as they're rolling out of Seattle and San Francisco in the next couple of weeks for three cross-country charity bicycle tours.
All members of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, the cyclists (and 20 college crewmembers) are riding the Journey of Hope bicycle tours in support of children and adults with disabilities.
Bike tours are always educational. You can't help but learn about different people and places while you slowly pedal down the road. But this one is more so, as these college students are scheduled to meet with and learn about children and adults with physical and mental disabilities, as well as perform service projects along the way. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/06/05/college-students-bicycling-a-journey-of-hope/
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