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(The subject of this investigation committed suicide Saturday morning, the Seattle Times reported.)
This sounds more like an episode of CSI than your typical bike theft investigation where police take a report and file it away.
The police crime scene investigation in this case traced DNA on a coffee cup left behind in a Seattle neighborhood bike shop by a man who took a Cervelo R3 for a test ride and never returned.
Months later, a DNA match led them to a Longview, Washington, podiatrist who they charged with 12 counts of possessing or selling stolen bikes …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/02/22/dna-leads-to-arrest-of-seattle-bike-theft-suspect/
Do the Clinton-Obama or McCain-Huckabee campaigns get your political juices boiling? How would you like to direct a campaign that will make a real difference.
America Bikes, a national coalition of bicycle and trail groups, is looking for a campaign director to dramatically improve funding for bicycling in the next federal transportation authorization bill, expected to go to Congress in 2009.
By ensuring that the transportation funding bill is bicycle-friendly, the group says the campaign director “will help address a number of key problems facing the United States, including climate change, dependence on foreign oil, road congestion, air quality, and childhood obesity. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/02/22/campaign-director-sought-for-america-bikes/
You snow-cycling enthusiasts probably already know about this, but the Iditarod Trail Invitational starts this Sunday.
Billed as the world's longest human-powered race, the event starts in Anchorage and follows the famous Iditarod sled dog race course across a frozen landscape to either McGrath — 350 miles, or Nome — 1,110 miles.
Of the 46 entrants, 12 are going by bicycle to McGrath and 10 are riding their bikes to Nome. The rest are hiking or skiing …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/02/21/ultimate-bicycle-ride-in-the-snow-human-powered-iditarod/
If you're bicycling around Pierce County in Washington state, keep an eye open for a maroon Mercedes Benz with some body damage and try to get a plate number.
The car's driver is the latest weasel to hit someone, move the bike and/or victim, then take off. And there's a $1,000 reward offered.
The 67-year-old bicycle rider was struck at the intersection of Ramsdell Street and Contra Costa Avenue in Fircrest about 5:30 a.m. Sunday morning. A streak of blood at the scene indicates someone from the car dragged the victim and her bike to the curb…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/02/20/hit-and-run-victim-and-her-bike-dragged-out-of-road/
Calfee Designs is supplying its bamboo bikes to a California-based bicycle racing team composed exclusively of vegans.
OrganicAthlete launched its cycling team in 2007 and five of its athletes will be riding the bamboo bikes this year.
Although he experimented with bamboo about 10 years ago, Craig Calfee has been building the bamboo bikes at his Santa Cruz County shop for three or four years. The bamboo tubing is bound with a hemp-fiber wrap that helps create a green, renewable bicycle…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/02/19/vegan-cyclists-stick-with-bamboo-bikes/
When Trek president John Burke urged the bicycle industry to create a bike friendly world, the Canadians were listening.
The Bicycle Trade Association of Canada has awarded $25,000 to six different advocacy programs that put people back on two wheels.
The nonprofit group for suppliers and retailers sponsors the ExpoCycle (Canada's bike trade show) and lobbies the government on cycling issues. They issued the grants in advocacy, education and facility enhancement…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/02/19/canadian-bike-friendly-programs-win-grants/
You've seen out-of-shape bicyclists get off their bikes and walk up steep hills on weekend bike tour events. But have you ever seen riders dismount because of a headwind?
Bike riders on the Jalapeno 100 through the Rio Grande Valley around Harlingen, Texas, were doing just that Saturday as wind gusts of 52 mph swept across the route.
Tailwinds above 40 mph are a good thing; but headwind or sidewinds are not. Sag wagons filled up during the day. The blogger at Texbiker.net gives this vivid account, which reads at times like it's a dispatch from the Dust Bowl era
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/02/17/windiest-jalapeno-100-bike-ride-ever/
While we've been on the subject of globe-girdling bicycling with Annie Londonderry, 25-year-old Mark Beaumont completed his journey earlier today when he crossed under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Beaumont's amazing feat? He shaved 81 days off the previous around-the-world solo bike tour record of 276 days.
No sag wagon accompanied him or carried his stuff. Beaumont toted his own 66 pounds of gear over the entire 18,000-mile journey for 195 days. Now he's looking to get some sleep…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/02/15/scotsman-sets-record-for-around-the-world-solo-bike-tour/
If you're familiar with the world of bicycle touring, you probably already know that the first cyclist to pedal around the world was Tom Stevens, who left San Francisco on a penny farthing in 1884.
But who was the first woman to accomplish the feat?
Let me introduce you to Annie Londonderry, a Bostonian in her early 20s who undertook the journey 10 years later in 1894. Credited with accomplishing the bicycle journey by Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and countless other newspapers at the time, her story is one of high adventure and extreme risk for a woman travelling alone in the late 19th century.
Her stories involve run-ins with bandits, nights spent sleeping in barns or open fields, visiting the front of the China-Japan war where she was wounded and taken prisoner, accidents out on the road, and tiger hunts in the jungle from atop an elephant. She did it all to win a bet that a woman could bicycle around the world. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/02/14/annie-londonderrys-amazing-bike-trip-around-the-world/
What is it about hitting a bicyclist that causes some people not to stop and try to help? A GhostCycle.org survey revealed that one in five bike accidents involving another vehicle were hit-and-run. Here are two recent cases that are particularly despicable:
Police in Beaumont, Texas, have a suspect in a Saturday night hit-and-run that killed a 26-year-old man who was riding a bicycle. According to witnesses, the woman stopped after striking the man and dragging him for 20 feet, pulled his bicycle out from under the car, then continued on her way. ….
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A 23-year-old Oshkosh, Wisconsin, man faces the possibility of 25 years, 6 months in prison and $101,100 in fines. He's charged with hit-and-run causing a death and his second offense of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/02/13/motorists-who-dont-stop-after-hitting-bicycle-riders/
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