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UPDATE: March 29, 2007 — Deadline to register extended to 5 p.m. CST Friday.
Lance Armstrong is taking a 100-member strong bicycling team with him to this year's Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI) and he's looking for volunteers.
There are about 40 slots still open for cyclists who raise a minimum $1,000 for the Lance Armstrong Foundation and who register no later than midnight (Central Time) on Tuesday, March 27. Go to the LiveStrong RAGBRAI website for details.
The 7-time Tour de France winner showed up with a small cadre of cyclists to last year's bike ride across Iowa (photo) for a just a couple of days, and pledged to return this year for the entire week-long ride. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/25/lance-armstrong-seeks-team-members-for-ragbrai/
Have you ever been out on one of those perfect bike rides when everything seemed right and you kept pedaling and pedaling and suddenly discovered you were either way far from home or just plain lost?
Then you can identify with Laurie, the heroine in the French Canadian movie “2 Seconds.”
Laurie is an accomplished downhill racer who loses her sponsor after spending too much time (hmmm, about 2 seconds) behind the starting gate when it opens. Fired, she returns to Montreal to live in her brother's apartment and get a job as a bike messenger. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/25/2-seconds-how-quickly-your-life-can-change/
Too often, motorists are sentenced to probation when they're judged guilty in bicycle fatality cases. What happens to them?
In two cases reported this week in Indiana and New York, the drivers in two hit-and-run bicyclist deaths are being dragged back into court for violating terms of their probation.
After being too lenient the first time around, maybe the judges can dole out some meaningful justice in these cases given a second chance. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/24/what-happens-to-motorists-who-get-probation-in-bike-fatality-cases/
A Salt Lake City bicycle concern has closed one of its locations that was proclaimed as the oldest bike shop in the western United States.
Guthrie Bicycle closed its downtown location at East 200th South in January. Housed in a three-story building erected in 1890, a sign in the window said Guthrie's was opened in 1904.
Kiril Kundurazieff's Cycling Dude blog lists old bike shops, and the shop closure in Salt Lake City would make Jones Bicycles (established 1910) in Long Beach, California, the oldest in the West. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/23/oldest-bike-shop-in-west-closes-store/
I was scanning the “bikes for sale” ads on Craigslist when I ran across this item:
“Boy's bike wanted — please read — it's also missing”
It turns out a boy in the Hillside area near Fort Lewis, south of Tacoma, Washington, had his bicycle, left, stolen over the weekend. One of his parents placed an ad on Craigslist, saying that the boy was willing to trade his Yu-Gi-Oh! card collection for a replacement bike.
If you have kids, especially boys, you can probably appreciate how much they treasure game cards like Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokemon. To be willing to trade them for a bike is a big sacrifice. This kid must be a bike fanatic in the making. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/23/boys-bike-stolen-will-trade-yu-gi-oh-cards-for-new-ride/
There's going to be another French-speaking bicycle race this summer, and it's happening in North America.
The Montreal-Boston Cycling Tour runs from Aug. 5 to 12, beginning with four stages in Quebec, followed by one stage in Vermont, two stages in New Hampshire and the final stage in Massachusetts for the finish in Boston.
This makes four stage races in the US and Canada this summer that are sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale, which means the top professional teams can send riders to compete. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/22/parlez-vous-montreal-boston-cycling-tour/
At first I wasn't going to write about the dog-powered scooter that inventor Mark Schuette e-mailed me about. Technically, it ain't a bicycle.
Schuette's contraption does have two wheels, but the similarity to a bicycle pretty much ends there. The scooter is powered by a dog, the rider doesn't get a whole lot of exercise except for balancing and steering.
But as I read through the Dog-Powered Scooter website, I started seeing some advantages for bicyclists, especially those who take to multi-use bicycle paths where people like to walk or run their dogs. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/22/dog-powered-scooter-could-be-a-plus-for-cyclists/
The federal government is asking states to return a record $3.47 billion in transportation funding, and two groups that advocate for bicycles and trails want to make sure that funding for bike facilities aren't hit the hardest.
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (they've assisted with 13,000 miles of rail-to-trail projects) and Thunderhead Alliance (bicycle and pedestrian advocacy groups) sent out alerts regarding the federal rescission order from the US Department of Transportation.
States can choose what programs they want to cut, the groups warn, and as they often protect their highway programs, they cut from funds that support bicycling and pedestrian projects. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/21/groups-try-to-save-funding-for-bike-trail-projects/
A story out of India this weekend about people who haul coal by bicycle struck me for two reasons: 1) it's about bikes, and more importantly, 2) it shows the risks people will take to scratch out a living.
The reporter interviewed coal carriers in the Jharkhand area of eastern India, where abandoned coal mines still cough up enough fuel for locals to illegally mine and transport to larger cities for sale on the black market.
It's a dangerous business. The bicyclists haul 1.5 quintal (330 pounds) of coal by bicycle on narrow roads out of the hills 30 or 40 miles to their destination. They'll make a couple of trips a week, earning less than $70 a month for their efforts. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/19/deadly-business-of-hauling-coal-by-bicycle-in-india/
Spain's Alberto Contador staged a last-ditch attack on the final mountain of the Paris-Nice bicycle race Sunday to win the 8-day Race to the Sun.
The Col d'Eze was the perfect place for the 24-year-old Contador to make his bid to win the race. He won Thursday's mountaintop finish in Mende to put himself within 6 seconds of the overall race leader Davide Rebellin.
Rebellin, a Gerolsteiner rider from Italy, fought hard to catch up to Contador, but finished about 22 seconds behind to fall to second place overall. Contador's Discovery Channel teammates kept the pressure on Rebellin and the Gerolsteiner team to give Contador a chance at the win. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/18/discovery-channels-contador-wins-paris-nice-bike-race/
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