Lance Armstrong and 6,500 close and personal friends will ride their bikes anywhere from 7 to 100 miles Sunday morning on the roads east of Austin.
It's time for the 9th annual Ride for the Roses, a major fund-raiser for the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
Cyclists have raised $7.3 million for this year's ride, compared to $5.6 million in 2004, reports the …
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It's not uncommon to overpack when starting out on a cross-country bicycle tour.
You soon learn that the comfort of an extra sweater, long pants or other clothing isn't worth the struggle of lugging it over hill after hill.
So when Mary Tiller and Amanda Barnett set out on their cross-country trip from Anacortes, Washington, to Bar Harbor, Maine, they …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/22/too-tired-to-cook-after-cycling-all-day/
The Great Allegheny Passage sounds like something blazed for grisly pioneers in deerskin, not cyclists in spandex.
But a group of folks from everyday walks of life is creating this rail-to-trail route.
They say that as early as 2006 it will carry cyclists all the way from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cumberland, Maryland, a distance of about 150 miles.
At Cumberland, cyclists can pick up the C&O Canal towpath, which is an ever-descending path along the Potomac River all the way to Washington DC …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/21/one-day-soon-bicycle-from-pittsburgh-to-dc-on-bike-path/
Donald Stathos, the former legislator who penned Oregon's bicycle law, died Thursday at age 81.
The Republican state representative was responsible for Oregon's law that set aside 1 percent of all state highway funds to build and take care of bike and hike paths.
An obituary in The Mail Tribune reports that several other states have since passed similar laws….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/21/author-of-oregons-bicycle-bill-dies/
For those of you at home who are keeping score, the Lance Armstrong bike beat the Roberto Heras bike in the charity auction sweepstakes this week.
The diamond-studded Madone 5.9 SL donated by Trek to Richardson's Bike Mart in Dallas brought $75,000 at the Lance Armstrong Foundation's gala auction in New York City, reports BikeBiz.com.…
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A memorial bike ride for elementary school teacher Michelle Mazzei is scheduled in Menlo Park, California, on Sunday.
Mazzei, 34, a fourth-grade teacher at Oak Knoll School, died after being struck by a car on Oct. 2. Sheriff's officials said the driver, Theodore Charles Thornbrough, 68, of Westminster, Colorado, was distracted while reading a roadsign and veered the 1998 Mercedes 560 SL …
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Let's say I coast down a hill near my house at 20 mph and return at 10 mph. What's my average speed on the hill?
No. The answer is not 15 mph. …
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I quickly consulted the calendar when I saw the item on the E-Composites website that a bicycle frame-maker was using bamboo. I confirmed it wasn't April Fool's Day.
The southern California high-performance bike frame-maker Calfee Design is using bamboo in one of its designs. The company is owned by Craig Calfee, whose early creations under the Carbonframes brand were used by Greg LeMond …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/19/calfees-new-miracle-bicycle-frame-material-bamboo/
I picked up the story of Helen Roberts when she left Colorado to ride her bicycle to Hurricane Katrina's destruction zone.
A city in her area had adopted the small southern Mississippi River town of Pearlington and she felt compelled to volunteer. She bicycled nearly to Baton Rouge, where she caught a ride to Pearlington.
What's going on in Pearlington? Clayton James …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/18/cyclist-seeks-kitchen-ware-for-hurricane-victims/
No, this isn't the bike path to hell, although it sounds like it.
Here in the Pacific NW, cyclists are accustomed to hearing bike path objections from neighbors who don't like the idea of cyclists pedaling too close to their homes on rail-to-trails (like train locomotives are better?).
In Melbourne, Australia, it's three chemical companies who are fighting the proposed path …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/17/toxic-emissions-spills-and-explosions-threaten-cyclists/
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