February 2010
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By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 25, 2010
Great video from Streetfilms of Seattle’s new Mayor Mike McGinn riding around town. It was a long ride politically for McGinn to get elected, and serving in office is always filled with potholes and doorstops. We could continue with the bike analogies ad nauseum, but let’s leave it at this: In all the times we [...]
Posted in News Cycle | Tagged cozy beehive, lou mazzante, outside magazine, seattle mayor mike mcginn
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 18, 2010
What happens when the power goes out all over town? All those keen gadgets and our always-on, 24/7, ubiquitously connected Wired World turn out to be useless, dude . . .
Posted in News Cycle | Tagged digital lockdown, palo alto plane crash, tesla motors, wired world
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 17, 2010
Reformed doper Joe Papp has shown the light for pro cyclists everywhere to mend their ways . . .
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, cycling doping, EPO, joe papp, testosterone
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 16, 2010
Before the bike industry starts talking “recovery,” it and the rest of the business world needs to take an honest look at what that term really means. We do a quick Economics 101 on the issue, using Shimano’s 21 percent nosedive in 2009 as a case example.
Posted in Culture | Tagged bicycle business, economic recovery, shimano sales
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 16, 2010
Slick Japanese folder collapses in 2 seconds! BikeHugger is hugging the Winter Olympics too . . . Idaho’s mountain biking license plate looks to be a go . . . Want to buy Brian Lopes’ pimped-out Sprinter van? and more…
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Obama Bikes | Tagged bike theft, bikehugger, brian lopes, e-bikes, idaho mountain bike license plate, seattlelikesbikes
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 16, 2010
The big Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival is in countdown mode for Sunday!
Posted in Mountain Biking, Videos | Tagged awesome land women of dirt, mountain bikers of santa cruz, titus el guapo
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 15, 2010
Our dreams for Team Rehab at the Dopers Reunion Tour de France 2010 have taken another body blow with announcement that a France-based warrant for Floyd Landis’ arrest was issued in late January. The warrant concerns hacking of an lab computer, but since the hacking related to Landis’ being stripped of his Tour de France [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, computer hacking, eddy ratti, floyd landis, michael rasmussen
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 14, 2010
A Story of True Love Gone Astray: Drug cheat Riccardo Ricco has decided to separate from drug cheat Vania Rossi. And just when Hallmark came out with a Valentine’s Day card aimed right at them…
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, cycling doping, riccardo ricco, vania rossi
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 12, 2010
Miss Piggy and Michele Bachmann need to cover up. But Kate Hudson?
Posted in Advocacy, Culture | Tagged cycling, kate hudson
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 12, 2010
Streetfilms has put together a clip on how to cross railroad tracks on a bike, using Seattle’s “Missing Link” as an example. I wish I could say it does the trick, but in reality it feeds a lot of misguided mythologies about cycling. Ultimately, it says railroad tracks are something to be feared, and that [...]
Posted in Advocacy | Tagged cycling safety, missing link ballard burke-gilman trail, streetfilms
