A few weeks ago I wrote about the steps some cycling chaperones and I took to usher 60 middle school age kids along the Sammamish River Trail for a safe 20-mile bike ride.
Little did I know at the time that the Adventure Cycling Association had just released a first-ever youth bicycle guide entitled “Pedal Pioneers: A Guide to Bicycle Travel with Kids.”
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/20/how-to-lead-youth-bicycle-tours/
The authors of a French book that alleged 2 years ago that Lance Armstrong relied on banned substances during his cycling career have come out with a brand new tome about the same old subject.
As usual, the 7-time Tour de France bike race winner vehemently dismisses the accusations:
“This latest attack will be no different than the first – a sensationalized attempt to cash in on my name and sully my reputation by people who have demonstrated a consistent failure to adhere to the most basic journalistic standards or ethics.”
“L.A. Officiel” by Pierre Ballester and David Walsh focuses on recently disclosed testimony leaked from closed hearings regarding a lawsuit between Armstrong and the SCA Promotions in 2005. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/19/another-armstrong-doping-book-dont-look-for-it-in-bookstores/
(Correction: The Consumer Product Safety Commission inadvertantly released a two-year-old recall announcement. There has been no recent recall of Light & Motion batteries. More info at website.)
The Light & Motion bicycle light company is recalling about 1,700 bike light batteries that can overheat, causing a fire or burn hazard for users.
The batteries were sold with the Light & Motion 2004 ARC Li-Ion HID and comprise manufacturer date codes of 1003 or 1103. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/18/light-motion-bicycle-light-batteries-recalled-see-correction/
Bicycle safety videos have come a long way in the past 40 years. Did I really have to sit through stuff like this? Fortunately, I've repressed the memory.
I stumbled across the 15-minute film while checking around for other examples of online bicycle safety videos before posting “Illinois bicycle safety video online.” The vintage 1963 film is called, “One Got Fat,” and it details how a group of monkeys (no, not children) fall victim to grisly accidents — one by one — for not following the rules of the road and not using common sense.
The monkeys are riding their bicycles to a picnic, but the one who had a bike basket to carry all the sack lunches is the only one to survive. He gets to eat all the lunches, hence, “One Got Fat.”
You'll note in the 15-minute film that none of the children (monkeys) are wearing helmets. That's OK; helmets probably aren't much help when being run over by a steamroller or an 18-wheeler or when tumbling into a bottomless manhole.
Do you recognize the narrator's voice? …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/18/mondo-bizarro-bicycle-safety-video/
You probably wonder what the heck is being taught in drivers' ed when someone honks at you as they pass and a young voice shouts, “Use the f***ing bike path.” I know I do.
At least in Illinois, though, the students are being taught all the right things.
The League of Illinois Bicyclists is distributing copies of its 7-minute video for new drivers on what to do and not do when encountering bicyclists — in other words how to share the road. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/18/illinois-bicycle-safety-video-online/
After Bob Breedlove died in a head-on collision with a pickup truck on a lonely Colorado highway last year, state police said the Race Across America bicyclist had veered into the pickup's side of the road.
The family now says that state police reached the wrong conclusion in the case, and they're supported by two independent investigators — including one hired by Outside magazine. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/16/breedlove-family-questions-2005-death-of-raam-bicycle-racer/
Bicyclists in the U.S. loathe some rural bike routes because of the danger posed by being chased by loose dogs. In Australia, it's swooping birds that can frighten and endanger bicycle riders.
The problem is so great in some areas that signs are posted warning of swooping birds. Cyclists are encouraged to avoid those areas or risk being buzzed, scratched or pecked.
If cyclists must pass through native bird nesting areas …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/16/spring-menace-for-australian-cyclists-swooping-birds/
Can you imagine two heart attacks and 25 injuries requiring attention from ambulance staffs during a single bicycling event?
Organizers of the Around the Bay in a Day bicycle ride in Melbourne, Australia, say that's not unexpected, considering they put 14,000 cyclists on the road for rides ranging from 26 to 155 miles. The bike ride …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/15/ambulance-staffs-kept-busy-during-australian-bike-ride/
Bicycle touring is as easy as following a box or Rice Krispies or as difficult as getting run over, sick, robbed or thrown in prison.
Those are the yin and yang of bike touring experiences related in two newspaper articles this weekend. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/15/first-person-bicycle-touring-stories/
“It is a public relations effort by Landis to get public opinion behind him. It is easy to make up a power point presentation and put what you want on it.”
That's the reaction of Pat McQuaid, head of the Union Cycliste Internationale, to a PowerPoint slideshow prepared by Floyd Landis doc Arnie Barker. The slides suggest problems with tests performed on Landis' urine samples, specimens were mishandled or mislabelled, and could have been contaminated.
McQuaid has more than a passing interest in ensuring Landis is found guilty …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/14/quote-cycling-union-head-reacts-to-landis-presentation/
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