These are the types of signs I hate to see when I'm out bicycling. How long is the detour? How many hills? How much gravel?
The Washington State Department of Transportation closed the bike trail beneath I-90 near Bellevue Way on Monday morning for about the next 10 days.
What it means for bike commuters between the Eastside and Seattle is that they'll have about an extra mile commute until the path is opened again…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/07/16/bellevue-wa-i-90-bike-path-closed-for-10-days/
A 24-year-old Seattle cyclist was listed in fair condition at Legacy Emanuel Hospital & Health Center in Portland Sunday night after he was struck by an SUV on Route 30 on the second leg of his Seattle-to-Portland bike ride.
Witnesses told police that the SUV veered out of its lane, struck Gerald (Gerry) Marvin from behind about 9:20 a.m., stopped briefly, then drove away. The force of the collision caused Marvin to knock over two other cyclists, who were taken to the hospital for observation. (The two were later identified as Michael J. Ball, 47, of Gresham, and Mark W. Tribble, 33, of Seattle.)
A St. Helens police officer stopped Daniel B. Whittlinger, 40, of Portland …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/07/16/hit-and-run-motorist-arrested-after-striking-stp-cyclist/
It looks like both Floyd Landis and Lance Armstrong will be racing at the Leadville 100 mountain bike race on Aug. 11 afterall.
Rob Lucas at UltraRob Adventures first had the scoop last week, as he pieced together some info about Armstrong riding part of the Leadville course with trainer Chris Carmichael and scheduling a charity event in Colorado Springs — 3 hours away — on Aug. 9 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/07/15/landis-armstrong-face-off-back-on-at-leadville-100/
It's not often that I'm a spectator to thousands of bicyclists pedaling past, but I bicycled over to the first leg of the Seattle to Portland bike ride this morning to soak up the ambience.
This is the 28th running of the STP, organized by the Cascade Bicycle Club. It's a 202-miler from Seattle to Portland that can be ridden in one or two days.
The mostly flat route — there are just two or three good climbs — makes it possible for a wide cross-section of recreational cyclists. Cascade cut off registrations at 9,000 this year. Some of the statistics….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/07/14/2007-seattle-to-portland-stp-is-on-the-road/
Eighty-two college students are seeing America from the slow lane this year, bicycling cross-country to raise money on behalf of people with disabilities.
The Journey of Hope members left from Seattle and San Francisco in three separate bike tours to ride northern, southern and central routes to Washington DC. They're expecting to raise about $500,000.
No sleeping in late for these guys. They hit the road early, cover an average 75 miles, then do some activities with people with disabilities in a host town or work on a volunteer project. It should be quite an interesting tale for “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” essays. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/07/12/journey-of-hope-bicycle-tour-supports-disability-programs/
The Cascade Bicycle Club reached its 9,000 limit on registrations in mid-June for this weekend's Seattle to Portland ride, but you can still buy and sell STP tickets.
Just go to the Cascade Classifieds forum and make a post, or lurk around for other people buying or selling tickets. When you've hooked up, just fill our a transfer form to help Cascade keep all the bib numbers straight.
Here are the directions for buying and selling STP tickets. Just eyeballing the classifieds, it looks like the potential buyers outnumber the potential sellers. If you strike out at Cascade, STP tickets are also posted on Craigslist. Go to the “bicycles” category and do a search for STP
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/07/11/need-to-buy-or-sell-an-stp-bike-ride-ticket-heres-how/
If you've ever gone the mail order or online route when buying bicycle stuff, you've probably at least perused if not spent some money at Performance Bicycle.
Now that company with $200 million in annual sales is poised for some big growth, as it has been acquired by private investment firm North Castle Partners.
In addition to mail order and Internet sales, Performance also operates 74 retail stores in 14 states. The new owners plan to open 90 more Performance Bicycle stores in the next four years ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/07/03/expect-more-growth-at-performance-bicycle-retailer/
One of the Seattle area's great summer treats are wild blackberries, which take over abandoned lots, roadsides and bike path rights of way.
They're tasty come late August and September, but think kudzu with thorns the rest of the growing season. A shoot can grow 30 feet in a year, and blackberry plants alongside bike paths can send prickly obstacles through fences.
That's how I ran afoul of a thorny shoot on a gloomy evening, looking down to check my gears and glancing up just in time to get raked across my nose by a blackberry branch. Boy, did that hurt. I hate it when that happens. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/07/03/june-biking-stats-keeping-my-nose-to-the-bike-trail/
No place is safe when drunken drivers are on the road.
A motorist plowed into three bicyclists riding in the bike lane on a newly reconstructed bridge in Neenah, Wisconsin, on Sunday, killing one and injuring the other two.
A 46-year-old Menasha woman was charged with one count of causing death by drunken driving and two counts of causing injury by drunken driving, according to published reports. A preliminary breath test showed her blood alcohol content was three times the legal limit. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/07/03/1-bicyclist-killed-2-injured-on-wisconsin-bridge-bike-lane/
If you were as amazed as I was about the Great Divide Race (“No support for cyclists in Great Divide Race“), you might want to know that Jay Petervary, left, set a new record in the 2,490-mile endurance bike ride of 15 days, 4 hours and 18 minutes.
When he pulled into Antelope Wells, New Mexico, a couple of days ago to complete the world's longest mountain bike race, he had crossed the Continental Divide 28 times and accumulated more than 200,000 feet of elevation gain.
Riding a 29-inch wheeled Orbea, he beat the previous record, set by bike race organizer Mike Curiak in 2004, by about 21 hours. In making the announcement, Adventure Cycling Association spokesman Aaron Teasdale said Petervary “can now lay claim to being the fastest long-distance mountain biker on the planet.” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/07/03/great-divide-bike-race-winner-sets-record/
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