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One month to go and the Amgen Tour of California has announced the 18 professional bicycling teams for the Feb. 18-25 stage race from San Francisco to Long Beach.
The list of cycling teams includes 10 US-based teams and 9 teams on the UCI Pro Tour.
I'm looking forward to this. Last year's inaugural race included wins by George Hincapie for Discovery and Levi Leipheimer, above, for Gerolsteiner (he's now with Discovery also).  Notably absent in 2007 will be overall winner Floyd Landis, who is fighting blood doping charges.
The teams listed for the 2007 Tour of California, and links to websites where rosters can be found …
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UPDATED: Jan. 16 — South Carolina police said Monday that no charges will be filed in the bicycling death of Rachel Giblin, a 15-year-old girl who was struck by a pickup truck during a MS 150 bike ride last September.
Rachel and her brother, Tommy, were riding a tandem bicycle in the Breakaway to the Beach fund-raiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society on Sept. 16, 2006, with their parents.
In the months following the fatality, Highway Patrol investigators determined that Rachel and her brother fell and were hit as the pickup truck passed.
Rachel's parents dispute that version and want the case reopened. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/16/no-charges-in-september-charity-bike-ride-death-parents-react/
Last week I wrote about some of the advantages of shelling out the extra money to buy a custom bicycle instead of a model off the shelf.
Here's the opposite idea: buy nothing new. Instead of plopping down money for a spanking new bike, search around and get one that someone is giving away. You might not get the exact selection you're after with your unique specifications, but the price is right — $00.00.
Over the new year, a story circulated about a group of folks in San Francisco who started a “buy nothing new” movement, called The Compact. Except for food, toiletries and other health and safety items, the group pledged to stick to finding free or used items.
There are a few websites that deal in free stuff, and of course there's Craigslist …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/16/where-to-find-free-not-new-bicycle-stuff/
Chalk up 85 straight hours of bicycling on a stationary cycle for 49-year-old Aurora, Illinois, resident George Hood.
As he broke the previous Guinness World Record of 82 hours Saturday evening, he passed the equivalent of 1,000 miles.
Hood was riding the solo endurance event to raise $25,000 for the Illinois COPS (Concerns of Police Officers), a group dedicated to raising money for survivors of police killed in the line of duty. You might remember two policemen on bikes died in a COPS fund-raising bike ride in neighboring Indiana last year. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/14/85-straight-hours-on-a-stationary-bicycle/
Apparently there was more for bicycling at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this past week than a Motorola CEO pedaling around on a yellow bike to sell cell phone chargers.
In a weekend wrap-up, a couple of Seattle Times reporters told about the helmet camera, a PCGamer bike and iPod bicycle speakers they stumpled across at the event.
Oregon Scientific had the ATC2K Waterproof ActionCamera (above, not on bike helmet). The half-pound camera …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/14/more-bicycle-stuff-at-consumer-electronics-show/
Slowly but surely that movie based on Lance Armstrong's “It's Not About the Bike” is making its way onto the screen.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Sony's Columbia Pictures division is looking for a treatment that's more like the personal drama of “Raging Bull” than a bicycling story that would be reminiscent to the inspirational “Chariots of Fire.”
Producer Frank Marshall, currently filming another sequel to the “Bourne Identity” and in pre-production for sequels to “Indiana Jones” and “Jurassic Park,” maintains the Armstrong film won't be a puff piece. “This isn't going to be Lance the beauty queen” …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/13/the-future-of-that-lance-armstrong-movie/
“I have a high threshold for pain.”
That's George Hood of Chicago explaining how he can ride a stationary bike hour after hour in his attempt to achieve a place in the Guinness Book of World Records by bicycling for 83 consecutive hours — nearly 3 1/2 days.
Hood must also have a high threshold for boredom. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/12/quote-setting-a-stationary-bicycling-record/
How is Italian bicycle racer Ivan Basso trying to fill Lance Armstrong's shoes on the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team?
By signing a two-year contract with shoemaker Nike.
Basso, who finished second to the Armstrong in the Texan's last Tour de France in 2005, signed on to race with Armstrong's Discovery Channel team in November.
2006 started out as a good year for Basso, but turned sour. …
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When you attend most bicycling events, you're probably doing more than just improving your health. A nonprofit group usually gets a share of the event proceeds.
But there are hundreds of major bike rides sponsored by big health foundations throughout the US where the top goal is fund-raising, often through a system of pledges for participating bicyclists.
Many of the larger health-related nonprofits have a series of rides in different venues throughout the US. They include Multiple Sclerosis, Leukemia, Lung, Diabetes, and LiveStrong bike tours. Here, in no particular order, are some of them:
Bicycle ride series:
MS Bike Rides (National Multiple Sclerosis Society)
Marking its 28th year, the MS Bike Rides sponsor about 100 bike tours in 48 states …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/11/charity-bike-rides/
A brake problem with some 2007 model year bicycles prompted Cannondale Bicycle Corp. to recall about 700 bikes, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.
(Update: Cannondale asserts the number of bicycles “recalled” at 145. Although the number of bikes with the flaw was 700, the problem was caught before most of the bikes made it out the door, and the other affected bikes remained at the warehouse. Cannondale also told Bicycle Retailer and Industry News that the company or retailers have contacted all the customers.)
Apparently the front brake can fail; no injuries have been reported. The bikes sold for between $3,200 and $4,500 …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/11/cannondale-recalls-700-bicycles-according-to-cpsc-more-like-145-says-the-company/
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