July 2009
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By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 31, 2009
Update: Brit cycling star Bradley Wiggins is making his blood profile public…let’s see a baseball player do THAT! It was decent of Major League Baseball to hold off releasing the names of yet even more storybook champions who won while juiced in ’03 — until after this year’s Tour de France. Like the man says, [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged burn after reading, major league baseball, steroids
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 29, 2009
Can a professionally run mountain bike organization also be a socially vibrant club? Or, as one Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance member put it at a sometimes painfully frank board meeting Monday evening, “Are we turning ourselves into a fund-raising group for mountain biking or are we a mountain biking organization that needs to raise funds?” [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Obama Bikes | Tagged Backcountry Bicycle Trails Club, Bob Bournique, Bob Hollander, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Jen Lesher, John Lang, Len Francies, Tim Banning
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 29, 2009
Wife: “Where are you going?” Me: “It’s Wednesday. You know I go to the Wallingford Farmers Market on Wednesdays.” Wife: “You’re going to take your bike?” Me: “I always bike to the farmers market.” Wife: “Are you crazy?! It’s going to hit 100!” Me: “We cyclists are tough.” Wife: “There is such a thing as [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged cycling, heat wave, seattle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 29, 2009
It’s hot, may reach 101 degrees in Seattle, making it the hottest day ever … recorded … in history. Right now we’re at 94, I’m about to head out on my second ride of the day. Will keep ya posted! Tweet tweet… By the way, when you blog and Twitter the same item, I’m calling [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged Bleet, NoTubes, Tour de France, Versus, WorldChanging
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 28, 2009
Bicycle.net has a great update on the “clean Tour” of 2009, but as Prudhomme notes, it’s too early to declare victory. For one thing, detection techniques that today find nothing will tomorrow improve. People are looking askance at Contador, a little guy who somehow nonetheless can time trial with the best. But something about Contador [...]
Posted in Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged alberto contador, Andy Schleck, doping, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 28, 2009
Ibis has announced a 6-inch version of its killer Mojo carbon fiber frame. The geometry is slacker but I can’t imagine a ton of difference between this and the 5.5-inch Mojo, other than weighing half a pound more. Both still spec’d with air shocks. So where’s the weight diff? I’ll be intrigued to see one [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged Ibis Mojo DH, jill kintner, Luke Strobel
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 28, 2009
See Kranked’s latest “Revolve” mountain-biking film and benefit your trails at the same time — head for North Bend Theater Thursday evening at 6:30 and enjoy the show! See a blind rider do jumps at Whistler! Find out how Jamie Goldman got fired from Santa Cruz Bicycles! Watch in dumbfounded wonder at how Lance McDermott [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Trail Access, Videos | Tagged Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Kranked Revolve
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 28, 2009
It was a small gesture, barely noticed. But when Lance Armstrong placed his left hand on Andy Schleck’s right shoulder and congratulated him “warmly” on the podium in Paris, it may have sent a signal about his machinations for the Tour de France in 2010. The bad blood between Lance and Alberto Contador means the [...]
Posted in Racing | Tagged alberto contador, Andy Schleck, lance armstrong, Team Radio Shack, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 26, 2009
Bicycle.net: UCI opposes letting Michael Rasmussen, the 2007 Tour “winner” who was kicked off his team as he was poised to take the yellow jersey to Paris (for lying about his whereabouts earlier in the season), return to competition because he hasn’t paid his share of anti-doping costs. Although Rasmussen was certainly a cheat, he [...]
Posted in Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged alberto contador, michael rasmussen, Tour de France, uci, VO2 max
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 26, 2009
Every year I go to Whistler expecting it to show signs of Moab Disorder. Moab of course used to be the center of the mountain biking universe. Then too many people went there and did that. The blase and inattentive locals did nothing to grow the culture, tapped-out riders started looking elsewhere, and what they [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged Babylon by Bike, Comfortably Numb, Olympic Winter Games 2010, See Colours and Puke, Whistler mountain biking
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