… Davis, California. The League of American Bicyclists recognized the city as its only platinum-level Bicycle Friendly Community on Wednesday.
Why Davis, you ask? Is it because the city features that cool highwheeler in its logo?
League of American Bicyclists executive director Andy Clarke says 17 percent of journeys to work are made by bicycle. Davis has more than …
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Serious cycling enthusiasts are wearing their drool bibs this week as the Interbike Expo bicycle show gets underway in Las Vegas.
The bicycle world's annual gear fest hosts about 750 companies at the Sands Convention Center where thousands of buyers and cyclists roam to ogle the products from the US, China, Taiwan, and the European Union.
The notable exception is Trek…
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“You actually get tired of eating and drinking.” …
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Lance Armstrong meet Manon Horwood.
As you're leaving San Diego on Thursday at the head of the Tour of Hope entourage heading to Washington DC, Horwood will be pedaling alone on a Canadian highway heading west from Jasper, Alberta.
Although your styles differ, you both have the same goal: to raise funds and awareness in the battle against cancer by …
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Now that President Bush has asked Americans to take fewer car trips, it's our patriotic duty to commute by bicycle.
The disruption to petroleum refining facilities in the Gulf Coast caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita prompted Bush to ask Americans to conserve — something that even his vice president once said “cannot be the basis of a sound energy …
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Lance Armstrong's cancer research fund-raising machine rolled through the Portland area Sunday as he appeared at the first-ever LiveStrong bike ride.
Joining the 7-time Tour de France champion and cancer survivor were Eddy Merckx (5-time Tour champ), Discovery teammate George Hincapie and OLN cycling commentator Bob Roll.
News outlets report that 3,500 cyclists joined …
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Lance Armstrong bikes hard to raise money for cancer.
Before the 7-time Tour de France winner shows up in Beaverton, Oregon, for the Portland area's first-ever Livestrong ride on Sunday, Armstrong is riding with an elite group in Calgary, Canada.
The 30 riders on the two-day bike tour paid $35,000 each to pedal along the back roads with Armstrong …
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As unlikely as it might sound, it looks as if the Chinese government is going to end up owning the 117-year-old Huffy Corp.
The Miamsburg, Ohio-based bicycle company has agreed to sell off its stock to the Sinosure Group — a Chinese government agency …
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I doubt that you'd find 73-year-old Glenna Hunter sitting around her Truckee, Nevada, home in a rocking chair. But if you did, she'd probably be reminiscing about a 3,100-mile cross-country bicycle ride she took earlier this year.
Glenna rode her bicycle from San Diego to St. Augustine, Florida, in 58 days. She was the oldest in a group of 20 women over …
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“It was not reckless by any means. It was a simple accident.”
San Luis Obispo Police Officer Sean Gillham describing an accident in which a VW made a right turn in front of a cyclist pedaling in the bike lane on Foothill Boulevard. (The cyclist's helmet cracked when the rear wheel of the VW rolled over her head, but she …
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