Much like the philospher Diogenes used a lamp to search for an honest man in ancient Greece, Shawn Anderson is using a bike to find people who go the extra mile.
Anderson, 46, is calling this the Extra Mile America Tour.
The motivational speaker and author set off by bike from San Francisco on July 21 and plans to reach Boston by Oct. 8. Along the way, he's searching for those who are going the extra mile in their lives, and he's encouraging others to give a little more effort.
He's repeating his message to gatherings in 21 cities ….
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Tyler Farrar will undoubtedly remember this week forever.
The Washington state native on Saturday posted his third win at the Eneco Tour, edging out Edvald Boasson Hagen in a photo finish.
The victory in Libramont, Belgium, kept him in the overall lead in the bike race through Belgium and The Netherlands that ends next Tuesday. He leads Belgium's Tom Boonen by 20 seconds.
Farrar, the sprint specialist on US-based Garmin Slipstream pro cycling team, started the week with a win at the Vattenfall Cyclassics on Sunday …
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The faster that technology progresses for bicycles, the quicker it is that repair and maintenance books fall out of date.
Although many of those books were excellent in their time, anyone trying to do repairs on a new bike might be pretty lost using those books today.
Lennard Zinn, an expert mechanic and technical writer for VeloNews magazine, probably knows this as well as anyone. That's why he's created a third edition for the popular “Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance.”
The 440-page paperback book, printed in two colors for “easier reference”, explores all the newer high-tech equipment on bikes, as well as including repair and maintenance tips for equipment on older bicycles ….
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US cyclists are battling it out for high positions in bike races in Belgium, Ireland and the US on Friday.
Cyclist Tyler Farrar missed a third straight stage victory at the Eneco Tour when Tom Boonen sprinted right past him at the finish line in Hasselt, Belgium, on Friday.
Meanwhile, Lance Armstrong's highly touted participation in the Tour of Ireland ended with him finishing in the main peloton, just 16 seconds behind the winner, Russell Downing of Great Britain…
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Washington state homeboy Tyler Farrar captured his second sprint-finish win at the Eneco Tour bike race in Belgium on Thursday.
Born and raised in Wenatchee, Farrar earlier admitted he had a frustrating Tour de France with several second-place showings against Team Columbia's sprint phenom Mark Cavendish. The Brit won 6 stages in the 2009 Tour.
In the past week, the 25-year-old member of US-based Garmin Slipstream has two first place finishes at Eneco Tour on Wednesday and Thursday and a win at the Vattenfall Cyclassics in Germany on Sunday.
It's uncertain when Farrar and Cavendish will finally get a chance to meet again…
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Cycling fans will be treated to action from three bike races in the upcoming weeks on both the computer screen and the TV screen.
Versus is offering a delayed broadcast of the 3-stage Tour of Ireland running Friday through Sunday and featuring comeback cyclist Lance Armstrong.
Then Universal Sports provides the 64th edition of the Vuelta a Espana from Aug. 29 through Sept. 20 as a live online videofeed and cable broadcast in the morning, followed by another cable broadcast later in the day.
At the same time, from Sept. 7 through 13, Universal is offering a live cable broadcast and an online streaming videofeed of the Tour of Missouri. …
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Owners of Felt F1X Cyclocross Bikes from 2007 and 2008 should stop riding because a faulty steerer tube can break, causing an injury.
The Irving, California-based bike distributor recalled 1,500 of the bikes manufactured by Aprebic/EVO Industry Co. Ltd., of Taiwan.
Felt received six reports of steerer tubes breaking, causing falls and minor cuts.
Bike specialty stores nationwide sold the bicycles from July 2006 to April 2009 for $1,400 to $1,500 …
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This guy from Dallas sinks to a new low among motorists who weasel out of taking responsibility for their actions when they strike a bicyclist and drive away.
The 27-year-old driver crossed the centerline, struck the bicyclist head-on, stopped, dragged him off his car and stuffed him onto the floorboard in the back seat.
A police sergeant told the Dallas Morning News:
“In about 20 years of accident investigation, I've never seen anything like that ….
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A trail in Freund Canyon in the Cascade Mountains near Leavenworth was closed recently after reports of encounters between a cougar and mountain bike riders.
At least four times in the past couple of months mountain bikers reported being either chased or stopped by a cougar on the trail that forms an 8-mile loop through Freund Canyon.
The Yakima Herald reports the trail was closed until Saturday, when a local landowner killed the cougar.
In reports in the Seattle Times, two mountain bikers report being chased by the cougar. In another harrowing tale …
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Here are two examples of when you should age-out of bike riding — never.
First is John Damiano, 80, who just finished up a cross-country bicycle vacation this summer. He told PhillyBurbs.com:
“I wanted to do something totally hard. I wanted to do it to see if an 80-year-old man could ride 3,629 miles.”
He can.
Damiano bicycles frequently and has done several long-distance trips. The recent ride from Astoria, Oregon, to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was his first cross-country adventure …
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