October 2009
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By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 14, 2009
More motivation to attend today’s summit, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Seattle City Hall: BikePortland: Good links and commentary on Texas tandem mowdown. Yes it was an unfortunate accident, but hey, it’s vehicular manslaughter any way you cut it. SeattleLikesBikes is tracking bike deaths statistically. Even a casual glance shows that most bike deaths do [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes, Rider Down, Transportation | Tagged Advocacy, bicycle deaths
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 13, 2009
Confessed doper and former King of the Mountains winner Bernhard Kohl continues to name names. The latest: physician Marc Schmidt, team doctor, who “oversaw the doping practices.” Schmidt vehemently denied the charges. And the beat goes on… Unconvinced that the 2009 Tour de France was as squeaky clean as it seemed, French prosecutors are opening [...]
Posted in Lance's Chances, This Day in Doping | Tagged bernhard kohl, cycling doping, lance armstrong, mark schmidt, rolling stone, sam brown, Team Astana
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 9, 2009
SF Streetsblog: Bicycle beats chopper in Sao Paulo, Brazil … don’t you love it! Cyclelicio.us: Bike guys are sexier than any other sports guys. And if anyone should know, it’s Yokota! Get your tickets now online for the Race Across the Sky one-night movie event Oct. 22. The feature depicts this year’s Leadville 100, won [...]
Posted in Lance's Chances, News Cycle, Transportation | Tagged bike commuting, marin biketoberfest, race across the sky
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 9, 2009
The French and the UCI are fighting again … bring out the Ritalin! UCI fires back at French anti-doping authority accusations: Did not! Did not favor Lance, Bert & Astana! But the French aren’t backing down. Saying they’re really really skeptical of 2009′s “squeaky clean” Tour de France, the AFLD announced they won’t play along [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged AFLD, bicycle anti-doping, uci
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 8, 2009
Regarding the FTC’s new mandate that “bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the material connections they share with the seller of the product or service,” we consider it worth repeating Bike Intelligencer‘s review policy. The reason we head our reviews with the tag “by someone who paid for one” is that the phrase sums [...]
Posted in Accessories, Mountain Biking | Tagged bike reviews, bikehugger, cyclelicio.us, mountain biking reviews, mtbr.com, robb sutton
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 8, 2009
Team Astana, including stars Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador, got preferential treatment when it came to drug testing, two leading French newspapers have reported (linked by Bicycle.net). This is part of an ongoing snit between the UCI, the international cycling governing body, and French anti-doping authorities over the rigorousness of dope testing during the Tour [...]
Posted in Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged AFLD, alberto contador, bicycle doping, bikesnobnyc, doping, lance armstrong, Team Astana, Tour de France, uci
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 5, 2009
Seattle’s Cascade Bicycle Club, the nation’s largest local cycling club with more than 11,000 members, continues to do yeoman advocacy work on behalf of cyclists mowed down by careless— and uncaring — drivers. At City Hall from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 14, the club will host a traffic justice summit with city [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes | Tagged bicycle deaths, cascade bicycle club, David Hiller, traffic justice summit
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 5, 2009
No one knows bike technology better than Seattle’s Ric Hjertberg. So when Ric goes from carbon fiber (FSA) to wood fiber (Ghisallo), you know something is afoot. The media missed the story at Interbike 2009, but Ric brings us up to date on his blog, Wheel Fanatyk. BikeRadar: On the heels of a rippingly successful [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Interbike, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes | Tagged ghisallo, grants pass bike theft, Interbike, national interscholastic cycling association, ric hjertberg, santa monica bike license
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 5, 2009
To its credit, Thule has responded to the case of Andrew Sell, who lost a bike off the back of his vehicle when the rail it was mounted to slid off the strut on his T2 rack. We ran a post on Andrew’s mishap and documented similar episodes from other mountain bikers. Here’s the message [...]
Posted in Accessories, Mountain Biking | Tagged thule t2 rack failure
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 2, 2009
Well now Lance has himself in a pretty pickle. With the Tour of California moving to May to avoid the freezing wet of last April’s racing, Lance now has to decide between the Giro d’Italia and the Tour d’Cali. I’m sure his heart is in California but he has Team Radio Shack to think about, [...]
Posted in Interbike, Lance's Chances, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Racing | Tagged fixie, lance armstrong, Omega Pharma, thomas dekker, tour of california, Turner RFX, tyler farrar
