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What is it like to ride your bike to the finish line at the Tour de Georgia, or tackle one of the big category climbs? You can find out by signing up for a couple of recreational rides.
The first is the BriarRose Grand Peloton, a fund-raiser that lets participants bicycle the finishing 25 miles of the 6th stage route to Stone Mountain the morning of the actual race.
The other is the Brasstown Bald-Buster Century 2007, which is a 100-mile bike ride with 14,000 feet of elevation gain that takes place April 28, about a week after the peloton battles up the mountain during the Tour. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/18/ride-your-bike-where-they-race-the-tour-de-georgia/
Going into the last of nine climbs of the stage, the Discovery Channel pro cycling team — they'd already taken stages on Thursday and Friday — had Levi Leipheimer and Tom Danielson in a lead breakaway at the Paris-Nice bicycle race.
But they were unable to muster a stage victory or help teammate Alberto Contador make up 6 seconds to take the overall lead in the week-long race that ends Sunday.
A hard charging Spaniard, Luis León Sánchez of Caisse d'Epargne won the 120-mile stage in Cannes and Italian Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner) finished in a trailing group with Contador to maintain his General Classification lead ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/17/no-hat-trick-for-discovery-at-paris-nice/
Discovery Channel cyclist Yaroslav Popovych won Friday's stage of the Paris-Nice bicycle race by attacking the survivors of a breakaway on the final climb of the day.
The 27-year-old Urkainian, once named the best young rider at the Tour de France, scored the second victory in as many days for Discovery. However, he gained only 14 seconds in the overall standings, which remained pretty much unchanged.
Only two hilly stages remain in the week-long Race to the Sun, which ends Sunday, and Discovery must be considering the chances of two cyclists — Alberto Contador and Levi Leipheimer — who sit near the top of the standings …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/16/back-to-back-paris-nice-wins-for-discovery/
Bicycle touring and its economic impact showed up on congressional radar screens this week during the 2007 National Bike Summit in Washington DC.
Slightly more than one-quarter (27%) of the US population participates in bicycling, contributing $132 billion to the US economy, according to a recent study by the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA).
BikePortland blogger Jonathan Maus, who provided excellent coverage of the 2007 National Bike Summit, reported that four representatives of bicycling and outdoor groups updated two members of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit on bicycle tourism and impacts on the economy …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/16/bike-tourisms-impact-on-local-economies/
Discovery Channel cyclist Alberto Contador won a mad-scramble uphill finish for Stage 4 of Paris-Nice bike race in Mende on Thursday, as second-place finisher Davide Rebellin of Italy took the overall leader's jersey.
The 104-mile stage from Maurs to Mende — the first hilly stage of the tour — shook up the general classification, which doesn't include Tour of California winner Levi Leipheimer or any other Americans in the top 10.
The Discovery team's efforts to chase down a three-man breakaway put Spanish teammate Contador in a position to attack on the 10% gradient in the final 2 miles, bettering his overall standing from 33rd at the beginning of the day to 2nd place overall after the finish ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/15/paris-nice-discoverys-contador-wins-stage/
An admittedly obese Pennsylvania woman and her husband are undergoing an extreme weight reduction program one pedalstroke at a time.
The couple are about 1,000 miles into their planned counterclockwise 16,000-mile bicycle tour around the United States. So far, they've lost a combined 130 pounds.
Morton and Priscilla Houliston are getting a lot of attention as they make their way up the East Coast from Key West. Their blog at LittleChanges.com reports numerous interviews with TV stations, which sometimes results in donations of food or a place to spend the night. They've inspired people to start exercising again …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/14/couple-sheds-pounds-on-bicycle-tour/
Police in White Plains, New York, found an easy way to arrest bike thieves — Set out an unlocked $500 bicycle at a city intersection and just stand back and wait.
And the police didn't have to wait long, as they arrested three suspects in an hour. Maybe a sting like this could work in other cities where cops don't have time to investigate bicycle thefts; they could just stand there and watch them happen.
Ten minutes after setting up the sting, a 23-year-old came along, walked off with the bike, and passed it off to an 18-year-old. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/13/nabbing-bike-thieves-is-too-easy/
Want to take a bike ride around the Texas ranch of a US president whose term got bogged down in an unpopular war?
Don't bother heading to Crawford to ride at W's ranch unless you're Lance Armstrong. I'm talking about the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, about an hour's drive from Austin.
Luci Johnson, the youngest daughter of former president Lyndon Baines Johnson, led two bike tours of the ranch and surrounding areas last weekend that each drew about 75 people. The ride — about nine miles — started at the LBJ State Park and Historic Site and crossed over to the LBJ Ranch National Historic Park.
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/13/bicycle-tours-of-a-us-presidents-ranch-in-texas/
The attention of pro cycling fans returns to France this week for the 8-day Paris-Nice bicycle race.
Great Britain's David Millar took the short prologue on Sunday on the outskirts of Paris and retains his overall slim lead at the end of Monday's Stage 1.
Sitting back in 6th place, but only 3 seconds behind, is Discovery Channel cyclist Levi Leipheimer, the American who won last month's Tour of California …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/12/millar-leading-paris-nice-leipheimer-close-behind/
Now we've changed to Daylight Savings Time two weeks early. We're back to dark mornings again, although we do get another hour of daylight in the evening.
Tufts University lecturer Michael Downing has said it's not about energy conservation, it's about getting Americans to spend more money shopping. The author of “Spring Forward: the Annual Madness of Daylight Savings Time” says the golf industry predicted a $400 million annual boost in green fees and sales the last time DST was extended.
Haven't I read that bicycling is the new golf? It might follow that what's good for golf is good for cycling. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/12/bicycling-through-daylight-savings-time/
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