The LiveStrong Presidential Cancer Forum is underway today and Tuesday in Iowa, where Lance Armstrong strives to make the fight against cancer a top issue in the 2008 presidential campaign.
Democrats Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Bill Richardson and Dennis Kucinich spoke Monday at Cedar Rapids; the Republicans get a shot on Tuesday. Noticeable in his absence was Democrat Barack Obama and Tuesday's expected no-shows Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/08/27/lance-armstrong-presidential-cancer-forum/
A reader recently emailed me to ask if I knew the oldest bicycle club in the US or the oldest race. I didn't, but the question sent me down an interesting road.
It turns out he had acquired a bike racing invitation dated Sept. 15, 1884, from the Keystone Bicycle Club in Pittsburgh and was researching it for sale in eBay.
That set me off on a wild-goose chase of my own, where I stumbled across some old sports newsletters that mentioned bicycle racing from that era
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/08/26/finding-historical-bicycle-documents-online/
Australian authorities have apparently solved the mystery of a missing European tourist when his skeletal remains were found next to his bicycle in a remote part of Queensland.
The remains of the 47-year-old Slovenian were discovered by a helicopter pilot who first saw the bicycle, then spotted the body. Police found the skeleton, clad in a tracksuit …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/08/22/bones-of-tourist-found-near-his-bicycle-in-australia/
The 2007 Bicycle Film Festival is currently making its way on its worldwide tour. The next stop is Toronto, running Wednesday through Sunday.
This is the seventh annual tour for the film festival, which features independent films glorifying the world of bicycling. Other North American stop are Portland, Minneapolis and San Francisco before it heads overseas.
One film should be of interest to Toronto residents: Monkey Warfare, a film about two ex-activists in Toronto whose lifestyle involves selling junk online and riding their bikes….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/08/21/bicycle-film-festival-coming-to-a-city-near-you/
I always marvel at the cyclists on tall bikes. How do they build them? How do they ride them? How do they stop and dismount?
Tim Anderson, a regular contributor at Instructables website, answers the first question with his recent contribution “Build Your Own Tall Bike Without Welding.”
The welding aspect of making a tall bike is certainly a drawback to most garage bike mechanics. No welding? This is interesting ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/08/03/how-to-build-a-tall-bike-without-welding/
Occasionally I'll get personal email from readers who see something that they think I might be interested in.
Recently I've received email about bike-commuting foreign ministers, bike-parking headaches in Amsterdam, and a request for a good bicycle touring book recommendation.
Ken in North Carolina forwarded the above image to me from BBC showing France's Minister of Ecology and Sustainable Development Alain Juppe walking away from a cabinet meeting with his Dutch commuting bike.
“It's a very nice example for government figures everywhere!” Ken wrote. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/19/opening-the-biking-bis-mailbag/
Attention bicycle travelers: Remember to call home often this summer on your wide-ranging forays into back-roads America.
Poor Clive “Les” Ruddle of Aldbourne, England, didn't keep in touch on his way down the Pacific Coast and touched off a search by Oregon state police. One British paper says he “sparked an international manhunt.”
The Englishman had flown to Seattle in mid-April for a bike tour from Port Angeles, Washington, to San Diego. He last contacted home on April 30 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/10/cyclist-missing-in-america-worries-family-back-home-in-uk/
Last January, I wrote about how George Hood of Illinois set a mark for the Guinness World Records Book by cycling for 85 straight hours on a stationary bicycle.
Unfortunately, Hood recently found out that the Guinness folks invalidated the entry because of sloppy record-keeping. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/08/guinness-shoots-down-that-stationary-bicycling-record-attempt/
You'll be able see the Graeme Obree story on the big screen beginning Friday if you live in Seattle, Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Toronto or Washington DC.
Those are the “selected cities” where theaters will show “The Flying Scotsman,” a movie about the Scot who twice broke the bicycling world record for distance covered in an hour.
Here in the Seattle area, theaters showing the movie this weekend are AMC Pacific Place 11, Renton Village 8 and Lakewood Town Center 12; Regal Bella Botega 11, South Sound Cinema 10, Alderwood 7 Cinemas, and South Hill Mall 6; Landmark Metro Cinemas; Bellevue Galleria Stadium 11; and Galaxy Tacoma 6. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/03/the-flying-scotsman-cycling-movie-opens-friday/
There's a story from Palm Beach about a woman who was having problems with her bicycle and traded it for a car the owner had left parked in front of a sandwich store with the engine running.
You know, I always worry about getting bike-jacked whenever I pass someone looking under the hood of their broken down car at the side of the road. When they watch me pedal by, I imagine they're thinking about how simple it would be to ride a bicycle and avoid all the mechanical problems of the internal combustion engine. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/19/problems-with-bicycle-woman-steals-car/
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