Sports Illustrated has picked a “Sportsman of the Year” since it first began publishing in 1954. SI columnist Trisha Blackmar backs pro cyclist George Hincapie for the award in 2005.
She cites the difficulties of the sport of cycling, the American's achievements this year and the teamwork that exemplifies Hincapie's attitude when it comes to his team's boss, Lance Armstrong….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/17/cyclist-hincapie-touted-for-sis-sportsman-of-the-year/
Just when pro cycling is looking up in the Golden State with the announcement of the Tour of California, next year's San Francisco Grand Prix has been threatened over some unpaid bills.
The city's supervisors are in a snit over $90,000 in unpaid bills for police protection that the Grand Prix organizers didn't pay from the 2004 event before …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/17/future-san-francisco-bicycle-race-hits-pothole/
I did a double-take when I saw the cover of the latest Time magazine. There is a picture of the SHIFT, the tricycle that turns into a bicycle as it rolls faster.
Time had judged the tricycle one of most amazing inventions of 2005. My blog covered the Purdue University student project back in April after it took the first …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/17/trike-into-bike-one-of-times-amazing-inventions/
Biking Bis contains a lot of bicycling related news, but its main thrust is bicycle touring.
Some of my favorite cycling days occurred on week-long rides in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington state — CAM Tour, Bike Virginia, and RAW. So when I started the blog last winter, I listed all the week-long bicycle rides I could find …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/15/mark-your-2006-calendar-for-week-long-bike-rides/
Tom Ridgeway is back in the saddle again, cycling cross-country for a cause.
The 45-year-old Lancaster, Pennsylvania, cyclist has been involved in long-range bicycling fund-raisers and awareness-raising events since 1993. That's the year he began circling the US in a 13,000-mile bike ride to raise awareness about AIDS.
Right now he's scheduled to be wrapping up an approximately 2,000-mile bike …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/14/on-the-road-again-mike-ridgeway-cycling-to-arizona/
The organizers of the Giro d'Italia unveiled a mountainous route this weekend for the 2006 edition of their bicycle race across Italy.
It has many cyclists, especially the sprinters, saying, “Arresti il dolore” while the climbers must be saying, “Molto buon.”
The first of Europe's triumverate of three-week-long cycling classics, the Giro runs May 6-28. It begins in Belgium this year for …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/14/giro-ditalia-2006-bike-race-begins-in-belgium-wraps-up-in-italy/
Karim Bicycle is open and back in business in Berkeley about five months after police swooped in to bust an alleged stolen bicycle ring.
Berkeley police served a search warrant on June 16, entered the shop and dragged out dozens of bikes for the assembled media, who duly reported the raid, as evidenced in the San Francisco Chronicle. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/12/stolen-bike-bust-in-berkeley-is-just-that-a-bust/
The Katrina Bikes Partnership Project in Seattle closed the second weekend of its bicycle collection drive at Magnuson Park with a total 834 bikes last Sunday.
The bikes, helmets and other gear donated by Seattle area cyclists is on its way to Baton Rouge, where a delivery of bicycles from Boulder already has arrived, reports the Baton Rouge Advocate. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/11/seattle-and-boulder-bicycles-headed-to-louisiana/
David Kroodsma is a cyclist who is preaching what he practices.
The climate researcher at Stanford plans to spend the next year and a half on his bicycle, touring down the Pacific Coast from California to the tip of Argentina.
Along the way, he plans to talk to other scientists, school students, and anyone else he encounters about global warming and how the …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/10/california-cyclist-warns-about-climate-change-through-americas/
“We are selling more bicycles now than before … Most people who come here do not complain about the prices, they believe it is a worthwhile investment.” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/10/bicycle-quote-bike-prices-soar-in-african-nation/
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