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
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
