January 2010
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By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 25, 2010
Yes it’s early, but we continue to see signs that this year’s Tour de France is shaping up as a real bike race (as opposed to a single team of prima donnas controlling a docile peloton). We think it’s good for the sport, especially because we may be spared endless Clash of Titans bloviating re [...]
Posted in Lance's Chances, Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged alberto contador, andre greipel, Andy Schleck, lance armstrong, samuel sanchez, tour de france 2010
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 25, 2010
Justice Rising: Guy gets 5-year sentence for killing a cyclist while texting. Does requiring helmets reduce cycling among youth? Bicycle light leads to evacuation of downtown homes and businesses in Arcata. What were they smoking??? Seattle’s Bicycle Master Plan is lagging. Let’s see now. 19.7 percent of city’s population rides bikes. Cars banned from driving [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Rider Down | Tagged bicycle helmets, bikehugger, google latitude, iphone cyclemeter, San Francisco Bicycle Plan, seattle bicycle master plan, texting fatality
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 22, 2010
You’d think someone who grew up in Seattle and has lived there most of his life would be used to a spot of rain, but it’s been ugly for nearly a week here in Palo Alto, where we live in the winter to escape … rain. Meanwhile, reports are Seattle is enjoying a spate of [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Videos | Tagged mountain bike rainy day training, rainy seattle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 22, 2010
At this point there’s not a lot that can be definitively said about the mess at Whistler, other than there’s much more going on behind the scenes than we’re being told. That and the reporting on this so far has been opaque. Typically any high-profile bankruptcy “announcement” is simply high-stakes brinkmanship aimed at loosening up [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged Crankworx, whistler bankruptcy, whistler mountain bike park
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 22, 2010
Reminder: Facebook anti-cycling hate page protest is tomorrow at FB headquarters near the foot of California Street (and Bowdoin) in Palo Alto. Gets rolling at noon. Protests are good. Action is even better. What you can do today to actually combat anti-cycling mentality is to click on over to Cascade Bicycle Club’s advocacy page and [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Obama Bikes | Tagged cascade bicycle club, facebook anti-cycling hate protest, florida honk at cyclist, portland cycling community, vulnerable user law
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 22, 2010
This will be interesting: “Bike Pure feel this is a major step forward in highlighting the problems cyclesport faces as sponsors look for a positive return on their financial investment within the sport. “There is a momentum for major change within cycling, fans of the sport no longer want the dopers destroying its image. This [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged BikePure, blood doping
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 21, 2010
Who’s the stronger rider: Mountain biker or roadie? At Bike Intelligencer, drawing from years of suffering in both disciplines, we’ve often opined for the former. We know personally that, despite having done numerous double centuries, triathlons and races during our nearly six decades aboard two wheels, our hardest rides by far have been the six-to-eight [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged Andy Schleck, burry stander, lance armstrong, mountain bike action magazine
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 21, 2010
We kvetched recently about how only one American city, Portland, made the Top 10 bike-friendly cities in the world list compiled by that paragon of velo-ology, AskMen.com. Now in the spirit of Spinal Tap, Virgin Vacations has gone one notch further up with the 11 Most Bicycle-Friendly Cities in the World. And guess what: There’s [...]
Posted in Advocacy | Tagged bike-friendly cities, boulder, davis, Portland, San Francisco, virgin vacations
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 21, 2010
Mark Weir’s tragic house fire has a lot of the bike community stepping forward offering help. We continue to wish him and his family the best. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ULqg8TycIE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] The legal woes blocking the San Francisco Bicycle Plan are finally ebbing, and work is getting under way. I’m having trouble getting worked up about the Tour Down [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Obama Bikes | Tagged league of american bicyclists, mark weir house fire, San Francisco Bicycle Plan, tour down under 2010
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