If you're anywhere near Tipp City, Ohio, Monday afternoon, you might want to welcome home Phil Nagle from his bike ride through 48 states.
The 23-year-old is completing his bike tour around the continental US about one week past his goal of 48 states in 48 days.
Supporters say that “strong headwinds, inclement weather and a few detours slowed his pace a bit,” but that doesn't diminish the amazing accomplishment of riding nearly 8,200 miles in what became 56 days — about 145 miles a day.
Nagle undertook the ride to raise money for cancer research and make a stab at getting in the Guinness Book for World Records…..
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Lots of congratulations are in order at the close of this third Tour of Missouri.
First, congrats to Dave Zabriskie for winning his first stage race in his 11-year career.
The Garmin-Slipstream individual time trial specialist can add that accomplishment to his many others. Those include stage wins in all three Grands Tours, a yellow jersey at the Tour de France, and four-straight National Time Trial championships.
In a race that saw the peloton finish intact on all the road stages, Zabriskie won decisively by beating his closest rivals by 30 seconds in the Stage 5 individual time trial around Sedalia on Thursday ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/09/14/zabriskie-is-2009-tour-of-missouri-bike-race-champion/
Hurray for Washington DC bicyclists taking this stand.
Late in August, Washington DC street crews cut the lock and removed a Ghost Bike that had been posted near Dupont Circle to memorialize the location where a truck struck and killed a young woman on a bicycle about a year earlier.
On Thursday came the response from the bicycling community — a new Ghost Bike chained up at the corner of 20th and R streets along with 21 other Ghost Bikes posted on lamp posts throughout the intersection.
That's one bicycle for every year in the life of Alice Swanson, the crash victim …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/09/13/dc-cyclists-dont-move-the-ghost-bike/
Eight years ago this morning we watched a terrible event unfold that would bring profound changes to our nation and its foreign policies.
There are several bicycle rides that remember 9/11 and memorialize those who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. Here are three in New York, North Carolina and Kentucky.
The Tour de Force 9/11 Memorial Bike Ride that began in 2002 when about a dozen bicyclists, mostly NYPD officers, rode their bikes from the Pentagon in the Washington DC to Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan.
This year's ride comprises about 170 bike riders who will leave on Friday from Boston …..
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Cross-country bike travelers who are tired enough to sleep in a hollow log at night probably won't mind the fact that the new bike hostel in Farmington, Missouri, is a refurbished county jail.
The Transamerican Trail Cyclers Inn opened its doors Tuesday night, just in time for the start of Stage 3 of the Tour of Missouri on Wednesday.
The hostel is also known as “Al's Place,” named in recognition of local bicycling enthusiast Al Dziewa who died of cancer. The hostel sports 14 bunk beds in three bedrooms, a bathroom, kitchen and laundry room. ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/09/10/old-jail-reopened-as-bike-hostel-in-farmington-missouri/
The Bicycle Film Festival rolls into Seattle this Friday and Saturday on its 39-city tour around the world.
More than 30 films can be viewed at the Henry Museum Auditorium on the UW Campus. Most are short releases, although nearly every program features a full-length bicycle film.
An after-party at the Flowers Bar and Restaurant runs from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
The first feature film is “Where Are You Go”, the story of two brothers from Canada and their American friend who take on the Tour D'Afrique, the world's longest bicycle race and expedition. Shown in the trailer above, one rider tells the essence of his experience ….
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Ernest H. Simpson will surely be missed, not just by his family and friends in his hometown, but by thousands of people in developing nations around the world who ride bicycles he collected and refurbished.
Known locally in Gettysburg as The Bicycle Man, Simpson passed away this summer at the age of 88. He leaves behind a tradition of salvaging discarded and unwanted bikes, fixing them up, and giving them away. We're talking more than 10,000 bicycles.
The Patriot News has a good article about Simpson, and tells how it all started one day when he was walking home from work in the early 1950s and saw a man throwing out a couple of bicycles …
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Chicago-based SRAM is recalling 24,000 10-speed bicycle chains with PowerLock connector links because the connector links are brittle and can crack, causing a fall hazard.
SRAM and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission recommend cyclists not ride bikes with these chains until the PowerLock connector links can be checked out at a local bike shop. SRAM is providing free replacements.
The SRAM chains were sold at specialty bicycle retailers nationwide from January through August this year. The PowerLock links were sold for $5 separately, or as part of 10-speed chains for between $35 to $85.
The chains also were installed on some Guru, Surly, Salsa, BMC, Serotta, Seven, and Ridley brand bikes…..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/09/08/sram-recalls-24000-bike-chains/
Rebecca O'Donnell completed her second cross-country bike trip this past weekend, logging 4,400 miles from San Francisco to Southwest Harbor, Maine, with her parents and brother.
She did her first Trans-America bike tour as a 3-year-old sitting in a trailer pulled by her mom or dad.
This time she did it as a 16-year-old with Type I diabetes, a serious condition that requires constant monitoring and regular injections through a catheter attached to an insulin pump.
I'm frequently amazed by the apparent difficulties that some people can overcome to enjoy bicycle travel. In this case, Rebecca had the support of her parents, Deb and Mike, and younger brother, James. At age 12, the cross-country bike tour was no small feat for her brother, either.
The bike tour, dubbed “Rebecca's Ride,” raised nearly $9,000 for diabetes research …..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/09/08/teen-finishes-second-cross-country-bike-tour-raises-money-for-diabetes-research/
With a few days available for bike travel and rainy weather forecast for Western Washington, it shouldn't have taken me too long to decide on a destination east of the Cascades.
The eastern slope of the mountains is also known as the dry side.
Yet, it was an agonizing process until I realized that it was just me and my bike and some gear. I didn't have to worry about anyone else's needs or keeping someone else happy.
I really couldn't make a bad choice.
So I chose a route that started in Cle Elum, about 90 minutes by freeway, and climbed up and over Blewett Pass on Highway 97 and eventually down to Wenatchee on the Columbia River …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/09/05/taking-a-bike-vacation-over-the-mountains-to-wenatchee/
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