Remember the BikeTown Africa project announced late last year?
Bicycling magazine had decided to take its “BikeTown” project to Botswana in cooperation with Bristol-Myers Squibb to help medical personnel deliver HIV-AIDS treatment to people in cities and rural villages.
Kona Bicycles, located up the road in Ferndale, Washington, got the deal to make the bikes and has been blogging its …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/14/kona-assembles-first-biketown-africa-bike/
An Indiana man bicycling to New Orleans to raise money for hurricane relief was struck by a car in Alabama and gave up the trip.
Danny Schnell, 50, was riding his bicycle on a busy state road near Birmingham when a car struck his bike, damaging the bicycle but not injuring Schnell. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/14/let-no-good-deed-go-unpunished/
Blind cyclist Hein Wagner entered the records books this past weekend by bicycling solo in a 24-mile race in South Africa.
Wagner averaged 14 mph — up to 24 mph in the downhills — in the Construction du Cap Ninety Niner. He followed a friend who had a noise device attached to his bicycle, and two other cyclists followed to …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/13/blind-cyclist-finishes-solo-bike-race-in-south-africa/
American cyclist Tyler Hamilton has lost his appeal of a two-year ban for blood doping.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport announced on Saturday that it had rejected his appeal. Hamilton pleaded his case before the body several weeks ago in Denver. The 34-year-old had tested positive for having transfused blood in his system after winning a time trial in …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/12/cyclist-tyler-hamilton-loses-fight-blood-doping-ban-stands/
Health officials and bicyclists in Chicago rejoiced a couple of weeks ago when the March issue of Bicycling magazine named it the second best city for cycling in its population division — over 1 million.
Yet at the same time, Men's Fitness magazine in March named the Windy City the #1 Fattest City in the US.
Doesn't seem possible, does …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/11/fattest-cities-and-best-cycling-cities-sometimes-coincide/
To me, a warm shower feels great just about anytime, but never more so than after a long bike ride.
That's why the Warm Showers website is so great; it guides bicycle tourists to hosts who are willing to put them up for the night, maybe feed them, but at least supply them with a warm shower.
Right now, there …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/10/bicycle-tourists-find-comfort-with-warm-showers-website/
No, Lance Armstrong hasn't fallen off the radar since he announced his break-up with Sheryl Crow last week. Here are a few headlines about Armstrong in the past few days:
Lance Armstrong pulls out of Grammys — KGET TV
Armstrong didn't want to run into his ex fiance at the event; he was scheduled to be a presenter.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/10/catching-up-with-lance-armstrong/
A California jury rejected claims by the families of nine injured children that Wal-Mart and bike importer Dynacraft knowlingly sold bicycles with faulty front-wheel quick-release levers.
Ironically, the Marin County jury issued the verdict the day after a quick-release lever broke on a bicycle they were inspecting in the jury room. The Chinese-made Next brand bicycle, the style at issue …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/10/jury-clears-wal-mart-and-dynacraft-in-faulty-quick-release-trial/
Reporting on the death of a Houston area cyclist, Chronicle writer Steve Sievert's Cycling Notebook column touched on some points about safe bicycle riding that deserve repeating.
“These steps can go a long way toward providing an extra measure of safety in a hostile cycling environment,” he writes.
Topping the list is to wear a helmet. We all know that. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/09/preparing-for-a-safe-bike-ride/
The Tour de France has the yellow jersey; the Giro d'Italia has the pink. The overall leading cyclist of the inaugural Amgen Tour of California will wear dark gold.
Voler Team Apparel is the official cycling jersey sponsor for the Tour, which begins Feb. 19 for an 8-day, 600-mile stage race around the golden state. The Grover Beach, California-based company (Voler is pronounced vo-LAY) is providing the jerseys in five competitions.
The five jersey styles …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/08/the-tour-of-california-bike-races-five-leaders-jerseys-released/
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