February 2010
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By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 10, 2010
Rains have abated at last and a touch of spring seems to be in the air, albeit on the cool side. (Allergies are acting up.) At Arastradero, which I use as a benchmark indicator, it is still sloppy in parts. The ground is just too saturated on certain switchbacks and shaded sections. It sucks…figuratively and, [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail | Tagged arastradero regional park, Mountain Biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 10, 2010
Jacquie Phelan on Sunday’s Dirt Bowl fundraiser in Fairfax. How the premiere of “Women of Dirt” in Seattle last Friday evening went, here and here. Banshee Bikes, winner of our Top 10 Bike Names of All Time citation, has a killer new Web site. Unfortunately, someone forgot to renew the bansheebikes.com URL. We’ve messaged them [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Videos | Tagged awesome land women of dirt, banshee bikes, fork drag, hayes prime, Jacquie Phelan, marin dirt bowl, richard cunningham
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 8, 2010
A blog correcting mainstream media for irresponsible and misleading reporting? Isn’t it supposed to work the other way around? (That’s what we’re told, anyway… by mainstream media… so it must be true.) Kudos to Jonathan Maus at BikePortland.org for staying on the case like the journalist he is. The tagline on this story, “Woman hit [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 8, 2010
Jonathan Vaughters made a careless comment about Lance Armstrong, who tweeted revenge. We like to see Lance mad because it makes him a better cyclist. Perhaps he will stick Vaughters’ comment on his top tube. Every time his head starts to sag a bit from fatigue, he will read it there and all hell will [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, gene doping, jonathan vaughters, lance armstrong, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 8, 2010
“Women of Dirt” is enjoying a much-deserved smash debut, with its worldwide premiere having sold out Friday night in Seattle, forcing addition of a second show opening night. And then came word of a new all-women Beti Bike Bash on June 12 at Lakewood, CO. But one point needs clarifying. There’s a general perception that [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Videos | Tagged awesome land women of dirt, elly blue, hardihood, Jacquie Phelan, missy giove, nicole hahn
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 5, 2010
Nice folo from VeloNews on the Trek-LeMond settlement. You have to read between the lines here. From the judge’s questions, it looked virtually certain that Lance’s doping suspicions would be raised in the trial (Lance’s ex was barred by her attorney from answering questions during deposition about his doping). That would have put Trek under [...]
Posted in Racing | Tagged greg lemond, lance armstrong, trek lemond lawsuit settlement, velo news
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 5, 2010
The Northern California rains of recent weeks have taken a grim toll on mountain biking trails. Erosion is severe in many places. Blowdowns, while not as widespread as might be expected, have kept trail crews busy. And some trails are just plain under water — a rarity for the region, but fact nonetheless. The practice [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail | Tagged bay area mountain biking, forest of nisene marks, mike ferrentino, mountain bikers of santa cruz, northern california mountain biking, Santa Cruz Bicycles, wilder ranch state park
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 5, 2010
Reminder: World premiere of “Women of Dirt” tonight in Seattle! The DVD is out btw and can be ordered online. Washington’s “Vulnerable User” legislation is already further along than a similar bill made it last year. Jonathan Maus at BikePortland.org raises the question of why a local newspaper seems deliberately provocative (one might say antagonistic) [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Videos | Tagged awesome land women of dirt, Bicycle Leadership Conference, BikePortland.org, jeff mapes, Jonathan Maus, pedaling revolution, ryder hesjedal, the portland oregonian
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 4, 2010
How did we do it? In our campaign to bring together Team Rehab for the Dopers Reunion Tour de France 2010, how did we forget about Tom Boonen? Admittedly, Boonen did not test positive for a performance enhancer. He was dinged for cocaine, which only makes you THINK your performance is enhanced. Still, drugs is [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, cocaine, cycling doping, dopers reunion, team rehab, tom boonen, tour de france 2010
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 4, 2010
The Ghost Bikes Film Project that Bike Intelligencer subscribed to failed to reach its fundraising goal, but Meaghan Wilbur says she’ll soldier on and do the documentary one way or another. Best of luck to her! Man riding a bike in Naples, FL gets a “DUI” for being intoxicated. $7,000 bail. Chicago DUI Lawyers is [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged ghost bikes film project, left cross, utah bicycle yield legislation
