A 32-year-old Florida woman with a history of alcohol abuse was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the death of a Pensacola man who was riding his bicycle to his night shift job in June.
Michael Steele, 25, was killed when the woman driving a GMC Yukon hit his bike from behind while she texted on her cellphone. Police said he rolled over the hood and landed about 40 feet away.
He was riding his bike to his job stocking shelves at the local Winn-Dixie so his wife could use the couple's only car to drive to her job in the morning ….
Bicyclists in Seattle should feel fortunate that the creators of Ride the City chose their town as the latest addition to the online bike-route mapping tool.
Since launching the website for New York City last year, Vaidila Kungys and Jordan Anderson have added Chicago, Austin, Louisville, San Diego and now Seattle to their mapping tool.
Don't blame these guys for the slow roll-out; Vaidila told me that they have full-time jobs and update the website during coffee breaks, lunches and after work.
Essentially, Ride the City is a mapping tool that finds the most direct route between two points, much like Google maps does for car travel [you can give it a test drive on the jump] ….
The text message that Astana team manager Johan Bruyneel sent to Lance Armstrong after the American cyclist broke his collarbone at the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon bike race in March. Bruyneel told a Belgian magazine that Armstrong considered abandoning his comeback at the time.
Armstrong underwent surgery to the shattered bone …
My neighbor likes to give his dog a nice run at the end of a leash while he rides his bicycle. I cringe a little bit when I see them take off like this, but they always return in one piece.
While my concern is for his safety, an elected official in San Jose is worried about pedestrians. This after a 62-year-old woman walking along a city trail last summer got tangled in a dog leash, fell, hit her head, and later died. The dog on the leash was one of two being pulled by a bicyclist.
The councilwoman is calling a public hearing Wednesday night to find out what the public thinks about restricting bicyclists who give their dogs a run at the end of a leash while they ride.
The organizers of the 2010 Giro d'Italia announced a rigorous 2,118-mile route last weekend for the bike race that rolls out from May 8 to 30.
With the rescheduling of the 2010 Tour of California to May 16-23, pro cycling teams and their members will have to choose between competing in the 3-week Grand Tour or the 1-week California event.
Here's what the Giro is offering in 2010;
— Three days of racing based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to start; — Six mountain stages that include the Gavia, Mortirolo, Terminillo, Zoncolan, Plan de Corones and Pejo Terme; — Seven sprinters' stages …
Between the heavy rains on Friday and the fog on Sunday, Saturday was the archetypal fall day on an American college campus.
I can confidently use such a highfalutin word referring to Jungian psychology after attending a lecture by one of my son's profs at a parent's weekend event.
Sixteen cities will host the 2010 Tour of California when the fifth edition of the bike race rolls out May 16 to 23.
This is a couple of months later than the previous four Tours of California that were scheduled in February. The new schedule will surely mean drier, warmer weather for the cyclists and spectators, as well as a bone fide mountain stage that ends at Big Bear Lake.
It also means that four of America's top cyclists — defending champion Levi Leipheimer and Lance Armstrong, George Hincapie and David Zabriskie — are choosing the California race over the Giro d'Italia, the three-week Grand Tour that also runs in May.
“Race Across the Sky” is a documentary on this year's epic Leadville 100 bike race that featured a rematch between David Wiens and Lance Armstrong and about 1,000 mountain bike riders.
Wiens, at 45, had won the grueling mountain bike race six straight times, including in 2008 when Armstrong decided to get back into cycling. Armstrong, 37, had won the Tour de France 7 times, but really wanted this Leadville win in his adopted state of Colorado.
Tonight's documentary is being billed as a one-night event at theaters across the country. It runs tonight at 8 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT with tape delay to 8 p.m. PT.
Two auctions are on tap this weekend in Seattle to raise funds for nonprofits that support bicycling.
Fortunately, the auctions for the Bicycle Alliance of Washington and The Bikery are on different nights.
First up is the Bicycle Alliance of Washington auction and gala beginning at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Seattle Center Fisher Pavilion.
The Alliance advocates for bicyclists in Washington. In addition to overseeing what our legislators are up to in Olympia, the BAW runs the Bike Station in Seattle and runs bike commuting and safe routes to school programs, among many other tasks. ….
Any plans you had for bicycling the Green River Trail in the next few years are being sandbagged.
Crews are racing to erect a 3- to 4-foot high sandbag wall along the trail to help contain expected floodwaters in Kent and Tukwila if heavy rains strike the area this winter.
The work stems from problems at the Corps of Engineer's Howard Hanson Dam upstream, where engineers are concerned about the structural integrity of the dam. They'll be releasing more water to reduce pressure on the dam, which could mean flooding downstream in the Green River Valley.
The Green River Trail could be closed to bicycles for up to five years, if it takes the Corps that long to figure out how to solve and repair the problem. With the sandbags in the middle of the trail that sits on top of the levee, there's not enough room for safe usage by bike riders and pedestrians.
The less scenic, but more direct, north-south Interurban Trail is slated to remain open. …..
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The organizers of the 2010 Giro d'Italia announced a rigorous 2,118-mile route last weekend for the bike race that rolls out from May 8 to 30.
Sixteen cities will host the 2010 Tour of California when the fifth edition of the bike race rolls out May 16 to 23.
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