If you want to mingle with the elite pro cyclists, you might get a chance if you volunteer for the 2007 Amgen Tour of California, which runs Feb. 18 – 25.
The Union Cycliste Internationale-sanctioned bike race covers some 700 miles of California highway and visits 12 host cities during its run. Volunteers are needed along the course and at the arriving and departing cities.
Among the positions sought are …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/11/10/tour-of-california-bike-race-wants-you/
Now that Lance Armstrong sees how painful marathons can be after Sunday's New York event, maybe he'll consider making a comeback to cycling as the first-ever UCI-licensed bicycle race in his hometown of Austin.
Dubbed the Austin International, the bicycle race next June 17 will feature a pro men’s and women’s race and will be evaluated as a potential Women’s World Cup event for 2008.
Further, the race around the Texas Hill Country has been included in the newly created USA Cycling Professional Tour. The series of 15 races (five of them stage races) in 11 states comprises 40 days of pro cycling in the US in 2007 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/11/06/inaugural-bike-race-in-lance-armstrongs-hometown/
For those of you keeping score at home, here's the latest box scores on elite cyclists caught up in recent doping scandals:
Tyler Hamilton: The US cyclist's two-year suspension from pro cycling ended Sept. 22. He's mentioned daily as a possible member of the new Italian-Russian team sponsored by Tinkoff Credit Systems and managed by Omar Piscina. No official word yet, though.
Ivan Basso: The Italian cycling star is free to look for another team after quitting Team CSC …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/30/whats-up-with-hamilton-basso-ullrich-and-landis/
The route from London to Paris will be 2,201 miles long for bicycle racers in the 2007 Tour de France, scheduled for Saturday, July 7, through Sunday, July 29.
Along the way, the peloton will pass through Belgium and take a clockwise tour of France. Cyclists will climb 21 mountain passes — including three mountaintop finishes — in the Alps (first) and then the Pyrenees. In all six mountain stages are routed, one more than the usual five.
The Tour organizers have saved the best for last, well, next to last. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/26/organizers-present-2007-tour-de-france-bike-race-route/
After Bob Breedlove died in a head-on collision with a pickup truck on a lonely Colorado highway last year, state police said the Race Across America bicyclist had veered into the pickup's side of the road.
The family now says that state police reached the wrong conclusion in the case, and they're supported by two independent investigators — including one hired by Outside magazine. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/16/breedlove-family-questions-2005-death-of-raam-bicycle-racer/
There's a short, little 10.8-mile bicycle ride in California where the organizers give away a free T-shirt to anyone who can finish in 1 hour. Sounds easy?
The ride is the Mt. Diablo Challenge in the East Bay suburbs of San Francisco. The bike ride sports a 3,249-foot elevation gain, 6.9% over the last 4 miles. Out of 957 finishers, the Save Mount Diablo organization handed out only 134 free T-s on Sunday.
This year's winner was Robert Anderson, a 51-year-old cyclist from Mill Valley, California …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/02/winners-of-mt-diablo-challenge-bike-ride/
Cyclist Floyd Landis received word this week from the US Anti-Doping Agency that he's been formally charged with using performance-enhancing drugs during the Tour de France bicycle race.
The next step, a hearing before a three-person arbitration panel, could occur by January. The 30-year-old American cyclist has said he wants that hearing to be open to the public.
If Landis fails to convince the arbiters that the tests carried out by the French lab were flawed, the whole thing will end up in the lap of the Court of Arbitration of Sport. That's the last stop before Landis would be suspended from professional cycling for two years and lose his Tour de France title. He's already …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/09/23/floyd-landis-case-moves-ahead-to-open-hearing/
Spain's Grand Tour bike race that started 2 1/2 weeks ago with 189 cyclists competing has boiled down to a battle between two cyclists — Alejandro Valverde of Spain and Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan.
Vinokourov tried to nail his overall Vuelta a Espana victory Thursday by crushing Valverde on steep slopes of the Pandera, gaining — with time bonuses — 44 seconds over his rival by the finish. This in spite of Valverde's pre-race pledge to attack and win on the mountain. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/09/14/kashechkin-and-vinokourov-big-winners-on-pandera-at-vuelta-a-espana-bike-race/
That crazy Kazakh Alexandre Vinokourov rode into the leader's gold jersey at the Vuelta bike race on Wednesday as American Tom Danielson won the 102-mile stage.
Vinokourov attacked race leader Alejandro Valverde on the climb up Alto de Monachil. The Spanish rider finally caught up to Vinokourov on the descent, but Vino accelerated again.
While Valverde couldn't keep up, Vinokourov rode ahead …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/09/13/vinokourov-snatches-gold-from-valverde-at-vuelta-a-espana/
While the big headlines in bicycle racing lately all have dealt with doping, a group of cyclists are beginning the third and final week of the Spanish soap opera entitled the Vuelta a Espana.
The overall leader of the race is Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde. We last heard from him when he clipped the back wheel of a teammate in the Tour de France, broke his collarbone and dropped out. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/09/12/last-week-of-vuelta-a-espana-bike-race/
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