Event organizers who operate charity bike rides and bike races in the Death Valley National Park learned just before Christmas that no new permits for such sporting events will be issued at the park in 2014.
The park service is citing safety concerns and a need to study such sporting events before issuing permits for …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/01/02/death-valley-national-park-freezes-bike-race-and-charity-bike-ride-permits/
[STP is sold out as of Feb. 18, 2014. A few more tickets can be earned, and others will be auctioned off. See Cascade Bicycle Club blog.)
Plan to register early if you want to ride in the STP (Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic), RSVP (Ride from Seattle to Vancouver and Party!), or other popular …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/31/registration-opens-soon-for-2014-rsvp-1-2-stp-and-other-cascade-bike-rides/
Specialized Bicycle Components is recalling 173 Source Eleven and Source Expert Disc bicycles with Supernova Switchable Dynamo Front Hubs after a problem with the front hub cropped up.
The Morgan Hill, California-based company and the Consumer Product Safety Commission is urging owners to stop riding the bicycles and to return them to a Specialized dealer …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/30/specialized-recalls-source-11-and-source-expert-disc-bicycles/
Hey NASCAR. On yer left!
Eight hundred bicyclists are on the way!
At least that many cyclists are expected to ride a lap on the Daytona International Speedway next spring as one highlight in Bike Florida’s week-long bicycle tour to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
The March 22-28 ride — named the Magical History Tour — …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/30/bike-florida-heads-to-speedway-for-20th-anniversary-bike-tour-in-2014/
Watching in slack-jawed amazement at the stunts these trials legends can perform on a road bike, I actually forget that Martyn Ashton, Danny MacAskill and Chris Akrigg are human like the rest of us.
A lot of trial and error — and crashes — go into these tricks. But they climb right back on their …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/28/road-bike-party-2-if-at-first-you-dont-succeed/
It turns out that Vashon Island in Washington state’s Puget Sound isn’t the only place in the US where a tree has enveloped a bicycle. But it remains the only known place where a “living” tree has done so.
The bike-in-a-tree is well known among cyclists in the Seattle area, and many have made the …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/25/another-bicycle-lodged-in-tree-discovered/
Trek is recalling 6,800 Madone bicycles because of a faulty bolt on the front brake quick release. The bolt can come loose, causing the cable clamp to come off and make the brake inoperable.
The Waterloo, Wisconsin-based company received 5 reports of loose brake bolts, but no injuries from falls.
The company and US Consumer …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/12/trek-recalls-2013-madone-bicycles/
Specialized Bicycles is on the hot seat with bicyclists — many of whom say they’re boycotting the company — after trademark attorneys for the US-based bike maker threatened to sue a war veteran in Canada.
It looks like the company is backing down, however, after it initially alleged that Dan Richter’s Cafe Roubaix Bicycle Studio …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/09/specialized-bicycles-overstepped-its-bounds-forced-to-back-pedal-over-trademark-attack-on-canadian-bike-shop/
When Denise Blanchard lost control of her bicycle and fell hard on a gravel road in Kansas, she thought last year’s TransAmerica bicycle tour was over for her and her husband, Charles Coderre.
She wrote at her blog, CharDenVeloMonde (translated from French):
“I lose control of my bike completely and it is the fall! Ayayaye! It hurts! I …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/09/trail-angels-save-the-day-for-canadian-couple-on-bicycle-tour/
Ever since I bought an old Yak bicycle trailer a few years ago, I’ve experimented with different uses for it.
Initially, I employed it exclusively for bicycle camping trips to the Olympic Peninsula, Mount Rainier, Wenatchee and the John Wayne Pioneer Trail.
One of the biggest drawbacks on those trips, I discovered, was my complete …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/07/putting-my-trailer-to-use-as-a-christmas-tree-carrier/
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