A California judge sentenced a 69-year-old man to 90 days in jail for killing a bicyclist last year when he swerved his car into a bicycle lane while he was looking for a freeway onramp.
The victim, Michelle Mazzei, 34, of Redwood City, was an elementary school teacher. News of her death — at the time the 26th in the region in five years — sparked a memorial ride by more than 100 area cyclists. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/13/90-day-sentence-for-killing-bicycle-rider/
I'm liking bicycle trailers more and more. I lugged my kids around in a Burley d'Lite 'til they outgrew it. I sold it, then turned around a year later and bought a used Yakima single-wheel trailer for touring and errands — mainly grocery shopping.
Now I see that a bicycle trailer manufacturer is offering free plans on how to build a bamboo trailer.
UK-based Carry Freedom sells several styles of trailers — including a dog kennel trailer and a folding trailer. The owners figure that cycling makes the world a better place and trailers make it easier to carry stuff by bike. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/13/diy-bamboo-bicycle-trailer/
US bicycle racer Floyd Landis presented his defense against doping charges on his website Thursday. He cites the French lab for analytical errors, incorrectly labeled samples, not following international standards and lack of evidence chain-of-custody.
At least that's what I read in a couple of early news stories. By the time I logged on this morning to read the case he was making, the FloydLandis.com website was swamped or had crashed. Either way, I couldn't get in.
I made it later in the morning. Try this link for the specific post — Landis case information now online (can't download docs, must be a traffic jam) or go to “It's Here” at Trust but Verify. A mirror download site also has all the documents. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/12/floyd-landis-makes-his-case-to-the-public/
They've stopped feuding about mandatory bicycle helmet use in Austin, at least for the time-being.
Two local hospitals in the adopted hometown of Lance Armstrong say they will conduct a year-long study of bicycle-accident head injuries beginning Nov. 1. They'll present the results to the City Council, which is considering an ordinance that would make helmet use mandatory. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/12/bike-helmet-debate-in-austin-sparks-study/
Bicycle trail advocates in Wisconsin and Alabama are pushing for more funding this week to complete trails in their states.
The Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin says the 40-mile Badger State Trail from Madison to the Illinois state line should lead priorities for funding, instead of that money going to highway construction projects.
In spite of a $5.8 billion transportation budget for 2005-2007, the state Legislature has cut 70 percent from the bicycle fund, leaving 92 such projects in the state unfunded …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/11/badgering-for-bike-trails-in-wisconsin-and-alabama/
The Wall Street Journal has discovered that people actually ride their bicycles to work and that bike manufacturers actually build bikes for this purpose.
In a Weekend Journal article (reprinted in full at the C.I.C.L.E. blog), the reporter writes that nearly every bike manufacturer has a new or revised commuter model for 2007.
If you're interested, here are links to the commuter bicycles featured in the Wall Street Journal article so you can learn more about each brand: …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/10/commuter-bicycles-covered-by-wall-street-journal/
What are some advantages of bicycling to work? Two groups of workers in Vermont, can tell us.
About a dozen employees at Stark Mountain Woodworking in New Haven are taking participating in the company's health plan that pays them $500 each for a bicycle and another $500 each for completing 650 miles by the end of the year.
The plan was hatched by co-owner Skimmer Hellier after arriving to work by bike one day early this summer. Since then, the workers are getting in better shape and arrive at work with more energy …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/10/vermont-workers-benefit-from-cycling/
You might not think that “white-out” would be one of the materials used by technicians at a world class doping investigation lab.
But cyclist Floyd Landis' defense team claims that lab officials in France wrote down urine sample numbers on testing forms that did not match Landis' Tour de France bike race sample number. The mistake was covered over with white-correction fluid, USA Today reports, and Landis' number was written in. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/08/how-sloppy-was-lab-in-floyd-landis-doping-case/
When Joe Kern turned 80 back in July, he commemorated his birthday with an 80-mile bicycle ride. How did you celebrate your 40th birthday, or 50th for that matter?
Kern lives in Metropolis, Illinois, located not far down river from where the TransAmerican bicycle trail crosses the Ohio at Cave-In-Rock. He belongs to the Carbondale Bicycle Club and often joins such regional bike rides as the Tour de Cape. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/08/80-mile-bike-ride-on-80th-birthday/
No standard 16-week marathon training program for 7-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong as he prepares for the Nov. 5 New York Marathon.
Armstrong is simply running when he can find the time, although he's trying to run every day.
That's a little hard to believe from the cyclist who was so diligent that he used to weigh his food intake when he was training for the Tour de France, but that's what he told the reporter for his hometown newspaper…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/07/how-lance-armstrong-prepares-for-the-nyc-marathon/
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