Not surprisingly, Milan-San Remo reads like quite a battle, with a 24-year-old QuickStep cyclist taking control of the sprinters at the close of the 6 1/2-hour race over 180-some miles.
Italian Filippo Pozzato (QuickStep) won the classic, followed closely by Alessandro Petacchi (Team Milram).
The only American in the bike race, Guido Trenti, played a part in helping teammate …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/19/milan-san-remo-bike-race-results-watch-it-sunday-on-oln/
What do you do if you're 60 and suffer a brain aneurysm that renders you without the ability to read or write?
If you're Megan Timothy, left, you work hard for two years to recover your lost ability to communicate, write a book, sell it to a publisher and climb on a touring bicycle to make a cross-country book promotion tour.
“Because I've always been an adventurer, I'm going on this little adventure to prove myself whole again.” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/19/cycling-cross-country-to-promote-a-book-about-brain-injury-recovery/
Take a look at the Instructables website and you quickly realize that American ingenuity is not dead — it's hard at work in the garage or basement.
The collaborative website offers step-by-step directions on how to make anything, including dozens of posts on making bicycles and biking accessories, as well as making stuff from old bicycle parts. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/17/contest-for-do-it-yourselfers-any-bike-projects-out-there/
What did the ads used to say for Benson & Hedges cigarettes? “You've come a long way baby!” Yeah, you ladies have come a long way toward increasing your cancer rate to that of men by smoking.
I'm thinking the same thing about Lance Armstrong this morning. The Tour de France blog cites a couple of sources that report Armstrong will drive the pace car in the upcoming Indianapolis 500. It probably will be a Corvette Z06….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/16/lance-armstrong-to-drive-indy-500-pace-car/
“You reach the top of a mountain pass … it’s real … it does something to you. Humping up a steep 1,000-foot elevation with 40 pounds of gear, it’s hard. You’ve accomplished something. And there’s still all this country there before you.”
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/16/bicycle-quote-the-simple-beauty-of-bike-touring/
Weekend warriors can ride where the pros ride during this year's Redlands Bicycle Classic in southern California later this month.
After a year's hiatus which left 700 potential cyclists without an event, the public bicycle ride returns on March 25 during the three-day pro cycling event, scheduled March 24-26. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/15/redlands-bicycle-classic-hosts-public-ride-again/
I love looking at aerial views and maps, searching for the roads and seeing where they lead. And ever since I was bitten by the mountain biking bug, I've been checking around for places that might offer some good off-road cycling.
This aerial view came to me yesterday while I was looking at some new online maps. Looks like a cool canyon with access via dirt roads or dry stream beds. Kind of like the Grand Canyon. I suspect it's a pristine environment without a lot of tourists. That's because it's on Mars. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/15/googling-for-cool-mountain-biking-paths/
There's a split log “park bench” at the top of Dreaded Hill in the Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in Orange County, California.
It marks the approximate location where Mark Reynolds was attacked by a mountain lion as he fixed the chain on his mountain bike and was killed in 2004. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/14/cougars-attack-of-mountain-biker-leads-to-bike-fund-for-kids/
Cyclists who feel a bottomless need to protest big oil and the use of non-renewable energy take to the streets twice a year — depending on their hemisphere — in the World Naked Bike Ride.
March 12 was the southern hemisphere's turn; protesting cyclists in the northern hemisphere take to the streets on June 10.
Explains the World Naked Bike Ride website:
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/13/critical-mass-not-to-your-liking-how-about-cycling-naked/
Joe Kurmaskie, the Metal Cowboy, will be in Seattle on Tuesday to talk about his latest cross-country cycling adventure with his two sons.
The author took to the road with his sons, ages 5 and 7, on a 14-foot-long rig that crossed 17 states from Portland to Washington DC last summer.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/13/metal-cowboy-cyclist-comes-to-seattle/
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