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The Lance Armstrong Foundation has filed a trademark infringement suit against a Tulsa man who sells BarkStrong and PurrStrong dog and cat collars.
The collars are too similar to the bright yellow LiveStrong bracelets, the foundation says. The cancer support group founded by bicyclist Lance Armstrong has sold 65 million of the bracelets at $1 each.
Chris Ohman, founder of Animal Charity Collar Group Inc., defends himself in the Tulsa World newspaper, saying the collars aren't bright yellow like the LiveStrong bracelets and they glow in the dark, something that the LiveStrong bracelets don't do…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/21/livestrong-trademark-battle-going-to-the-dogs/
Being distracted with other stuff, I completely missed the DVD release of the cycling flick “The Flying Scotsman” in mid-September.
Earlier this week I stumbled across it after taking a stroll to my local video rental store, snatched it up, watched it immediately, and thoroughly enjoyed it.
The movie is based on Graeme Obree's autobiography, “Flying Scotsman; Cycling to Triumph through My Darkest Hours.” Obree set the one-hour bicycling record, twice, in the early 1990s in spite of battling officials at the Union Cycliste Internationale and the demons inside his head…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/20/the-flying-scotsman-cycling-flick-at-your-local-video-store/
Piece by piece, the proposed 3,000-mile East Coast Greenway bike trail is coming together.
The latest section to be designated for the Maine to Florida bicycle route is about 11 miles of the Bronx River Trail (about half is complete) between White Plains and the Bronx. The unfinished portions are in the planning stages.
When complete, the East Coast Greenway will stretch from Calais, Maine, to Key West, Florida, with the ultimate goal of being off-road and traffic-free. About 21 percent of the trail is open to public use…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/19/another-link-added-to-the-east-coast-greenway-bike-trail/
Ever since kids arrived on the scene in this household, fall has been the time of year when my head starts feeling congested and before I know it I'm suffering from a cold.
But considering myself a hard-core cyclist, I ride my bike through my illness. Then, more often than not, the cold turns into bronchitis or a sinus infection and that's the end of my fall bicycling for a couple of weeks.
I've run across some recommendations lately at UltraRob's Adventures blog and from trainer Chris Carmichael about how to prevent and control those colds and at least keep them from turning into something worse…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/19/prevent-those-common-colds-from-interfering-with-bicycling/
If you're pedaling through North Portland on your bicycle and feel some hunger pangs, you might want to swing by the “bike-thru” window at the Little Red Bike Cafe.
Only open a couple of months, the breakfast and lunch cafe will feed anyone who wants some homemade goodness in the form of sandwiches, baked goods, ice cream and locally roasted coffees. But cyclists do get that 50-cent drink discount that others don't.
Owners Evan and Ali explain all the trials of opening a restaurant and feature their tasty menu offerings at the Little Red Bike Cafe blog. Don't read it on an empty stomach. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/18/portlands-little-red-bike-cafe/
An importer is recalling about 5,700 disc brakes typically mounted on mountain bikes.
Perigeum Development, doing business as Formula Brake USA, is recalling the Oro disc brakes because the brake's lever can separate, causing loss of braking ability. Six reports of failures have resulted in no injuries.
The brakes, manufactured by Italy-based Formula SRL, were sold at bicycle specialty stores …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/16/oro-disc-brakes-and-huffy-bikes-recalled/
“Take a ride you won't forget,
On my bicyclette;
Fast as lightning and so much more,
It's a traveling metaphor.”
These are the opening lines to the theme song for “The Bicycle Men,” a musical comedy opening in London soon.
The show stars Dan Castellaneta, best known as the voice of Homer Simpson. In the musical he plays Steve, an American tourist who crashes his bike and “encounters the twisted inhabitants of a sinister French village,” …..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/16/the-voice-of-homer-simpson-stars-in-the-bicycle-men/
The family of a 15-year-old Rachel Giblin who died in a fund-raising bike tour in South Carolina in 2006 is suing the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
The lawsuit alleges that ride organizers promised traffic control and police protection that didn't materialize, and they routed part of the ride along a stretch of narrow and busy highway that was unsafe for bicyclists.
The Breakaway to the Beach bike tour is just one of about 100 MS fund-raiser bicycle rides in 48 states. Those bike rides raised $67 million in 2006 to help people suffering from multiple sclerosis. ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/15/family-sues-ms-society-over-fatality-during-2006-bicycle-tour/
So Oscar Pereiro is the new winner of the 2006 Tour de France* after cycling officials stripped Floyd Landis of the title and handed it to the Spaniard 15 months after the finish of the race.
Standing on the podium in Paris on July 24, 2006, I'm sure the only dream of a Tour de France win for the Caisse d'Epargne rider involved efforts in 2007 or 2008.
Little did he know that in less than a week, the beaming American standing on the top step of the podium would be accused of doping and eventually be stripped of his yellow jersey. ……
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/15/final-results-for-2006-tour-de-asterisk-pereiro-in-yellow/
About a month ago I wrote about a Georgia firefighter who planned to ride his bicycle cross-country to raise money for the families of the “Charleston 9,” nine South Carolina firefighters who died battling a blaze.
The cyclist, Laddie Williams, finished up the ride over the weekend. He shared the 2,600 road miles between Palm Springs, California, and Charleston with his sidekick, Scott Rousseau of Outspokin' Bicycles. The 120-mile-a-day pace included many obstacles, including an accident with a hit-and-run driver close to home. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/14/cross-country-bike-ride-for-charleston-9-ends/
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