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posted by troll
on Dec 22, 2011 -
20 comments
The 1950s Called, and They Want Their Transportation Bill Back. "While the bill’s summary lists few specific programs that would be cut, Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) announced in a press conference Thursday that the bill will eliminate funding for several bicycle, pedestrian and transit programs, including Transportation Enhancements, the Recreational Trails Program and Safe Routes to School."
League of American Cyclists: "James Inhofe (R-OK), the lead Republican negotiator on the transportation bill, declared that one of his top three priorities for the transportation bill is to eliminate ‘frivolous spending for bike trails.’ "
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posted by inkyroom
on Jul 9, 2011 -
115 comments
Why is (Radio) Shack -- a company that only markets to North Americans -- spending $20 million sponsoring Lance Armstrong and his team as he spends a year racing bicycles mostly in Europe? "Somewhere, someone has a Venn diagram showing the crossover between electronics geeks and cyclists. I’m sure
those two sets have a lot of crossover."
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posted by ardgedee
on Sep 4, 2009 -
78 comments
The bike racing world has a tradition of attention-getting designs, but some spectators at this year's Tours of California or France might have done double-takes at some of the art on Lance Armstrong's rides. As it turns out, Trek and Nike have commissioned
custom designs promoting Livestrong, and as I write this Lance is cycling into Paris on a bike covered with butterfly wings,
courtesy of Damien Hirst.
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posted by ardgedee
on Jul 26, 2009 -
50 comments
Lightlane builds lasers that shoot out from your bike onto the road, displaying a bike lane wherever you ride. Written about
here and
here.
posted by erikvan
on Jun 24, 2009 -
92 comments
The hour record is one of the greatest challenges in bicycling, with seemingly the simplest rules: Ride as fast as you can for exactly sixty minutes, zero seconds. If you go farther than anybody else, you hold the record. In 1993, Graeme Obree held that record for one day. Fifteen years later, at the age of 44,
Graeme Obree will fly again.
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posted by ardgedee
on May 22, 2009 -
34 comments
As the Tour de France concludes, let's spend a moment commemorating the
derrière garde of world-class cycling, those bad enough to come in last but never bad enough to fail, les
Lanternes Rouge. If Wim Vansevenant can retain his tenacious hold on 145th place in Sunday's stage he will be
the worst cyclist to complete the Tour de France for three consecutive years and set a Tour record. You can, indeed, win by losing.
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posted by ardgedee
on Jul 26, 2008 -
53 comments
A new generation of bike rental is here, where you pick up the bike where you start your ride and drop it off at the destination.
Vélib' and
Vélo'V are the high-profile, wildly successful products of the JCDecaux ad firm in the cities of Paris and Grand Lyon. Velib' provides
10,000 bikes for
cheap hourly rental beginning this past summer. In exchange for fully underwriting the €90 million of expenses, JCDecaux wins exclusive rights to all the city's billboards.
JCDecaux' rival Clear Channel beat them out of the gate by a couple months, opening
Bicing in Barcelona to similar success, although at a smaller scale.
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posted by ardgedee
on Oct 8, 2007 -
17 comments
Bjarne Riis, current coach of premier cycling squad Team CSC,
used drugs to win the Tour in 1996. His protege, Ivan Basso, was suspended from Team CSC before last year's Tour for suspicion of doping. Team Discovery hired Basso to fill Lance Armstrong's seat as captain, but
Basso quit shortly before he had a chance to win his second consecutive Giro d'Italia, and is out for the season, if not permanently. The conclusion of
Floyd Landis's appeals to reinstate his 2006 Tour victory will wait until some time after this year's Tour de France. Jan Ullrich capped a good but unsatisfying career by retiring early and under a cloud. Several of Ullrich's former Deutch Telekom/T-Mobile teammates, including Erik Zabel,
admitted to doping, and the team masseur claims to have personally administered EPO to Ullrich. Ullrich, Basso, numerous other leading riders, and the majority of some team rosters continue to be under suspicion as the
Operación Puerto EPO lab investigation grinds onward. It might be the best time ever to market a competition road bike called the
Addict.
(previously, previously, oh-so-very previously, )
posted by ardgedee
on May 27, 2007 -
14 comments
Critical Mass in Milwaukee ran into some "problems" with police on the July 29th ride:
“I unfortunately chose to lock my bike with a friend and go see what was happening with the group who had been stopped at the yellow light. I ran down the street just in time to see police tackle a man on a bike who had a baby carriage attached to end of his bike. After he was pulled to the ground another officer violently pushed over his baby carriage with the baby inside,”
More coverage and
some photos.
posted by nTeleKy
on Aug 24, 2005 -
125 comments
Drag Race Ride through the streets of Manhattan with some of the fastest urban bicyclists in existence as they race in the wintertime. Thrilling and unbelievable. The mpg is from a head mounted camera worn by one of the racers. More
here. Also don't miss the cameraman riding on top of a Jersey barrier
here. And here I was thinking that Times Square to Park Slope in 25 minutes was pretty quick. Thanks to
nervous.net.
posted by n9
on Jul 15, 2004 -
33 comments
I should have expected a country that largely dismisses cycling as a viable mode of transportation would fail to understand the subtlety of riding skills that ultimately led to their plonking a man on the moon.
You don't need to be a cyclist to enjoy the intelligent and generous breadth of content at
BikeReader - A Rider's Digest.
posted by normy
on Jan 17, 2003 -
8 comments
This is your mission should you choose to accept it. You start at Victoria Peak with bicycles and ride all the way down to the Victoria Harbour without using the pedals, and see how far you can go. The rules are: No pedalling allowed. Keep your feet off the ground. Ride with safety. It's not a time trial. The winner is the one who rides the most distance. Sounds fairly straightforward, but here's the hitch... you'll be competing against Jackie Chan. A
two part mpeg video from a Japanese TV variety show called
Tetsuwan Dash.
posted by riffola
on Apr 12, 2002 -
13 comments
