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
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 19, 2010
In a lot of ways, Black Diamond Bike & Backcountry’s shop jump-started the freeride revolution in southeastern King County. The shop had the maps, helped build the network, sponsored the races, worked to maintain the trails and sold the bikes that made the whole thing pop ‘n sizzle. When it opened its doors eight years [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged black diamond bike and backcountry, black diamond bikes, freeride revolution, town of black diamond king county
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 19, 2010
Alexander Vinokourov’s drug ban is over, so like Michael Rasmussen, he’s ready for another go on the Tour. Vino says he won’t be pursuing a title, but if something should happen to team leader Contador, we would assume all bets are off. The Tour de France 2010 is shaping up as the biggest Dopers Reunion [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged alexander vinokourov, blood doping, michael rasmussen, tour de france 2010, tyler hamilton
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 19, 2010
Cozy Beehive to Look Bicycles: Your Ergopost has a problem. Wheel Fanatyk documents 3 gems in Seattle. Ric is so right about Elliott Bay Bicycles. Hard to believe how many years have passed since Bill Davidson, Bob Freeman and the rest of us on Team Green Death were the young rebels forging a vision of [...]
Posted in News Cycle | Tagged Elliott Bay Bicycles, look ergopost seat post failure, ric hjertberg, sam bleninsop broken wrist
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 18, 2010
Lance Armstrong is dropping the idea of personal doping tests (our impression was that he never began them). And why not. He isn’t going to change anyone’s mind about the past by testing clean now. And as Joe Papp and others have revealed, there are so many ways to beat the system’s drug testing that [...]
Posted in Lance's Chances, This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, cozy beehive, joe papp, lance armstrong
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 18, 2010
Rider Down & Dragged: “The car failed to stop despite having the victim’s bicycle trapped underneath, dragging the mangled frame all the way into Key Biscayne…” According to the story, the driver “appeared impaired”…d’ya think? Is this a trend? Remember the Toronto incident where a bike courier was impaled and tried to hang on for [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Rider Down | Tagged bicyclist killed, cycling hate crime
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 18, 2010
Inspiring: Thousands join Lance’s Twitter ride Down Under. I’m trying to think if I’ve ever seen 5,000 cyclists in a peloton. It must have been quite a sight. Perspiring: British dude wheelies for 8 miles, claims world record. Aspiring: The Schleck brothers take aim on this year’s Tour. We’re big fans of Andy Schleck and [...]
Posted in Lance's Chances, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Racing | Tagged Andy Schleck, lance armstrong twitter rides, mark weir, sam hill
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 17, 2010
The show schedule for “Women of Dirt,” the much-anticipated feature movie on downhill/freeride grrllzz, is starting to round out. The worldwide premiere will be Feb. 5th in Seattle, and Cyclelicio.us broke news that the film’s California premiere will be in Santa Cruz Feb. 28 at the Rio Theater on Soquel (Yokota promises more details, including [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Videos | Tagged aptos post office jump park, awesome land women of dirt, galbraith mountain, galbraithmt.com, mark brent, mtbchick.com
