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Do not, repeat, do not ride your bicycle into the Grand Canyon. Three men on an Alaska to South American bicycle tour decided to cycle across the Grand Canyon last month and found themselves sentenced to 48 hours in jail.
The trio is on a pan-American off-road bicycle tour they call Riding the Spine. They started at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, last year and plan to ride to the tip of South America.
The mountain bikers picked up the Arizona Trail — an 800-mile trail that spans Arizona from the Utah to Mexico borders — and decided to ride their bikes into the Grand Canyon and camp on the North Kaibab Trail. Bad idea…..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/02/grand-canyon-shortcut-lands-3-cyclists-in-jail/
It's likely that the broken wrist that George Hincapie suffered at the Amgen Tour of California will keep him sidelined during the Paris-Roubaix — a bike race he's always wanted to win.
At his website, the Discovery Channel pro cycling team rider said he had surgery to repair the radius (a bone in his arm), but was unable to make predictions about how quickly it will heal. Team manager Johan Brunyeel told Eurosport that he'll probably miss the April 15 Paris-Roubaix, because of the miles of jarring cobblestones the cyclists cross.
Meanwhile, Hincapie says that, like many of his fans, “I'll be logging some hours on a Computrainer while I heal.”
He'll also probably be checking on the progress of his Pla d'Adet residential development …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/02/more-than-bike-racing-on-hincapies-plate-theres-pla-dadet/
Mikhail Davenport sets out this weekend to cycle 950 miles across Texas in 25 days.
No, it isn't a torrid pace. But the 58-year-old Texan is riding from El Paso to Beaumont on a hand-crank trike towing a trailer with his wheelchair.
Calling it the Legless Lizard Tour de Tejas, Davenport wants to raise awareness for disability issues currently in front of the state Legislature — such as the state's claims of immunity in not following regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/02/the-legless-lizards-tour-de-tejas/
Butch Cassidy. John Dillinger. Ma Barker. And now, the Bicycle Bank Robber.
The FBI has put out an all points bulletin for a man wanted in connection with at least seven bank robberies across the central and southern states. After handing the bank teller a note demanding money, he makes his getaway on a mountain bike.
He's described as being in his mid-50s, between 5-11 and 6-1, and weighing about 180 pounds. (Wow. That description could match yours truly. I'm going to stop riding my bike to the bank until they catch this guy.) …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/02/28/fbi-seeks-bicyclist-in-series-of-bank-robberies/
The BMX bike company founded by one of the sports' prinicipal competitors is recalling 11,000 bikes because of faulty fork welds.
The Carlsbad, California-based MirraCo LLC bicycle company, founded by X-Games gold medal winner Dave Mirra, is making the recall in conjuction with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Consumers should stop riding the bicycles immediately and take them to a MirraCo dealer for inspection and possible fork replacement. The bikes in question were sold between November 2006 and January 2007. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/02/28/bmx-bike-maker-recalls-11000-bicycles/
Two possible rail-to-trail projects are on the drawing boards in Washington state — one in scenic northeastern Washington and another in the traffic-choked Seattle suburbs.
One could be a nationwide draw to bicycle tourists who could pick up the trail near Republic and follow the Kettle River 28 miles north to the Canadian border. The other could serve as a north-south bike commuter path from Renton to the Snohomish county line, 33 miles away.
Kettle Falls railroad
The proposed rail-trail in eastern Washington's Ferry County would be the first in the West to connect to Canada's rail-to-trail network …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/02/27/progress-on-two-future-bike-trails-in-washington-state/
I guess we won't have Jan Ullrich to kick around anymore. He announced his retirement as a professional cyclist on Monday.
The German cyclist won the Tour de France in 1997 at the young age of 23, but forever seemed destined to ride in the shadow of Lance Armstrong after that.
There was always something — a sore knee, a bad day in the rain, drunk driving arrests, partying on ecstacy, and generally being blamed for falling too far out of shape in the winter …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/02/26/jan-ullrich-says-goodbye-to-bicycle-racing/
See more Chilly Hilly 2007 pictures here
The Chilly Hilly bike ride lived up to its name again this year, providing the same old hills and the same old chilly, wet weather.
How hilly? The Cascade Bicycle Club organizers say there's 2,675 feet of climbing. How chilly? 40 degrees when I left the house this morning (you can calculate the wind chill with the drizzle, wind, and fast downhills).
That didn't deter me or thousands of other recreational cyclists from the Pacific Northwest, however, who took the early morning ferries across Puget Sound to the 33-mile ride around Bainbridge Island …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/02/26/2007-chilly-hilly-photos-from-seattle/
Prosecutors in Santa Barbara County, California, apparently agreed to change vehicular manslaughter charges against a truck driver to “trespass by a motor vehicle” so he won't lose his driver's license.
Truck driver Marcos Almaguer was charged in the January 2006 death of UC Santa Barbara triathlete Kendra Payne on a twisting road near Goleta. The Daily Nexus reports Payne was struck on a training ride with a teammate as they rounded a curve.
Payne's death is the impetus behind Assemblyman Pedro Nava introducing Assembly Bill 60, which would require that passing vehicles give bicycles at least three feet of clearance. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/02/23/deal-making-in-bicycle-fatality-charges/
To the disappointment of some family members, I returned to the “old bike movie” genre recently and rented “Beijing Bicycle.”
The story centers around a stolen bicycle, just like “The Bicycle Thieves,” but this is hardly a Chinese pirated version of the Italian classic.
Granted, central character Guei desparately needs his bicycle for his job as a messenger, but the real complications don't arise until he actually relocates it. Imagine, finding a stolen bicycle in Beijing. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/02/22/beijing-bicycle-another-bike-theft-another-movie/
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