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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 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
“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
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 2, 2010
Lost in the white-out coverage of Greg LeMond’s legal settlement with Trek so far has been the issue of why the lawsuit occurred in the first place. LeMond believed that Trek had stopped supporting his line in deference to Lance Armstrong, who was out for revenge against LeMond for suggesting that Armstrong was tainted by [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged greg lemond, lance armstrong, trek bicycles
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 2, 2010
Mountain Bikers of Santa Cruz have finalized plans for their two-day Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival on Feb. 27 and 28, capped with the California premiere of “Women of Dirt” at 7 p.m. Feb. 28 at the stately Rio Theater in Santa Cruz. On hand will be riders Lisa Myklak, Emily Johnston, Tammy Donahugh and [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Videos | Tagged awesome land women of dirt, Emily Johnston, Kathy Pruitt, Lisa Myklak, mark brent, mountain bikers of santa cruz, Tammy Donahugh
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 28, 2010
Its co-filmmaker calls “Women of Dirt,” which premieres a week from tomorrow, an “experiential lifestyle film” packed with “levity” and “fun.” But it’s not just a film “for and about women,” whether on bikes or off. Instead, says Mark Brent, previewers have been unanimous that the movie has “huge crossover appeal” for any audience — [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Videos | Tagged awesome land women of dirt, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, mountain bikers of santa cruz
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 27, 2010
As a blogger and cyclist, we’ve been waiting a long time for this. Our MacBook is just a little too big and bulky to be comfortable in our Chrome Ivan, even if there is a separate waterproof compartment for it, and even if that’s what we’ve been doing the past few years. Our iPhone on [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged apple ipad, blogging cyclist, ipad keyboard
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 27, 2010
So it’s come to this in the bicycle culture. We have the choice of voting, in the annual Bloggies Awards, between a fat cyclist and a bike snob. Now we in the cycling community know perfectly well what’s going on here. Fat Cyclist isn’t really fat, and Bike Snob isn’t actually a snob. Fatty may [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged bikesnobnyc, bloggies, fat cyclist
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 22, 2010
You’d think someone who grew up in Seattle and has lived there most of his life would be used to a spot of rain, but it’s been ugly for nearly a week here in Palo Alto, where we live in the winter to escape … rain. Meanwhile, reports are Seattle is enjoying a spate of [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Videos | Tagged mountain bike rainy day training, rainy seattle
