By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 17, 2009
Funny to read now: Bicycle.net’s pre-stage analysis, where Stage 13 “may reveal just how far some riders are willing to go to fight for the Tour de France yellow jersey.” Um…let’s just say, not very far at all. Cyclelicio.us: “Nocentini’s last day wearing yellow.” And I agreed when you posted, Richard. Based on everything we [...]
Posted in Racing | Tagged Bernard HInault, Cadel Evans, Eddy Merckx, lance armstrong, Team Astana, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 17, 2009
Is bike thievery on the rise along with burglaries and robberies — another sign of hard economic times? No statistical data yet but anecdotal evidence suggests yes. The above photo was taken near a bike rack at the Caltrain station in Menlo Park CA. Cyclelicio.us reports on a brazen thief caught in the act in [...]
Posted in Accessories, Culture, Mountain Biking | Tagged bike locks, bike theft, kryptonite
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 17, 2009
Cycling News has a piece about irregularities in testing the Astana team, led by Lance Armstrong, er Alberto Contador. Whatever. The French anti-doping agency has warned the UCI “to treat all teams the same” after testing of Astana was delayed last Saturday. Interesting side note: The French don’t really trust the UCI to conduct doping [...]
Posted in Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged AFLD, doping, lance armstrong, Tour de France, uci
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 16, 2009
BikeHugger has a post on an unfortunate crash involving a rogue bike rider at the Redmond Derby Days criterium last weekend. The comments queue sheds a bit of light, particularly the posts by an injured rider, but this thing needs to be sorted out. (Another blog post calls the rider a kid who “just wanted [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking, Racing | Tagged mountain bike, Redmond Derby Days criterium, shitbike
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 16, 2009
Bike Rumor: Google maps adding “Go by bike” to its “get directions” feature? This would be super cool, especially on my new iPhone G3S. You could enter in your route and get the best route combining things like bike paths and bike lanes with major thoroughfares. The database on this would have to be pretty [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged Fluidride, Google maps, Iron Horse, Marin County mountain biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 16, 2009
It was another listless day in the peloton today, but in one respect that may be a good thing. So far this Tour has been remarkable in one instance (and one only): No doping violations have been announced. There may be a lag factor here: Samples have to be collected, transported, tested and re-tested. That [...]
Posted in Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged cycling doping, greg lemond, lance armstrong, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 16, 2009
Followup to yesterday’s note on James Raia’s excellent coverage of Wenatchee’s Tyler Farrar in the Tour for the Wenatchee World. Today Washington State’s largest newspaper, The Seattle Times, ran a Raia story on yesterday’s stage as its lead Sports section story. That’s quite an acknowledgment of Raia’s insightful reporting, and Tyler Farrar’s growing prominence in [...]
Posted in Racing | Tagged James Raia, seattle times, Tour de France, tyler farrar
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 15, 2009
I’ve been traveling from the San Francisco Bay Area to Seattle the past few days — got in some great rides in Ashland OR — so need to do some catching up. Fortunately the blogosphere never sleeps! Biking Bis gives a great recap of the Seattle-to-Portland double century. Jacquie Phelan is riding and writing her [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, News Cycle | Tagged ballard, BikeSport, Bruce Rosar, Jacquie Phelan, Seattle-to-Portland Bicycle Classic
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 15, 2009
Tyler Farrar is giving us all in the Northwest a real champion to root for. In the world’s biggest bike race, the lad from Wenatchee keeps coming up big, challenging the unbeatable Mark Cavendish time and again, only to fall inches short. Today a heartbeat separated Farrar from Cavendish, who benefits from having a stronger [...]
Posted in Racing | Tagged Mark Cavendish, Tour de France, tyler farrar
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 13, 2009
On this the first rest day of the Tour de France 2009 edition, we pause to pay tribute to the one cyclist who has managed to once again galvanize worldwide attention on himself while suffocating any competitive fire in this year’s peloton. We speak, of course, of Lance Armstrong, author of the celebrated biography, “It’s [...]
Posted in Racing | Tagged lance armstrong, Tour de France
