By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 19, 2009
Because only slackers need the support of a whole team… Registration opens Feb. 24th for this exercise in self-punishment. Only 400 spots open, so you’d better jump on it fast. I’ve never raced this event but have a friend whose friend did it practically solo when the rest of the team disintegrated on her. That [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Racing, Road Trips | Tagged BC Bike Race, British Columbia, mountain bike racing, Mountain Biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 19, 2009
Ain’t America great?! Florida professor is caught on video “taking” bike, gets investigated by police, who turn it over to state attorney. Professor resigns and is paid $50,000 to keep quiet and just go away. Eight hundred million people in the world live on a dollar a day and this guy walks away with fifty [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged florida professor, poverty, stolen bicycle, YouTube video
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 18, 2009
Seattle parks commissioners will hold a public hearing on street closures around parks for bicycling, running and pedestrians from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday (Feb. 26) at parks headquarters, 100 Dexter Ave. (at Denny) in Denny Park. This is a great deal. We lived for some time next to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, [...]
Posted in Today's Ride
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 18, 2009
Sacto Bee: “The facts surrounding how the person came into possession of the bicycle are not being released at this time due to an ongoing investigation,” police said.
Posted in Racing | Tagged lance armstrong, Sacramento Bee, stolen bike recovered, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 18, 2009
I go just about everywhere in Seattle by bike, even in the rain. So for today’s downtown meeting I’ll be riding my trusty Titus titanium hardtail down Aurora, across the Aurora Bridge, then dropping to Dexter and making my way through the trecherous one-way maze of downtown Seattle. Yes I ride Aurora (Hwy. 99) because [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Today's Ride, Transportation
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 18, 2009
Bike magazine updates previously reported intervention by Obama administration to stop oil drilling plans near Moab, Utah. Moab, an acronym for “mountain on a bike,” is one of the known galaxy’s premier mountain biking meccas, of course. Somehow riding around oil derricks might detract from its allure. You have to love the monkeywrencher who put [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged bike magazine, edward abbey, Moab, monkeywrench, Mountain Biking, obama administration, oil drilling, Utah
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 17, 2009
This is the one I linked earlier where the university dean was implicated in a stolen bike case. Now Tampa Bay Online is reporting there may be charges filed: “Abdul Rao, a senior associate vice president for the university, had admitted to taking the bike outside the Byrd Alzheimer’s Center last week – an act [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged abdul rao, Stolen bike, University of South Florida
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 17, 2009
Went out into the woods for a ride Jim likes to call “classic Northwest urban winter trail, where you go round in circles for hours.” Lake Sawyer is just outside of Black Diamond on the Maple Valley-Black Diamond road. We got completely lost but spent 3 hours in the saddle having a great time trying [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Today's Ride
