News Cycle
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By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 23, 2009
Waxahachie: Police donate 70 bikes. A 10-year-old raises money to give away bikes. “Bicycle Man” breaks the record with 1,100 bike giveaways! What makes Fat Cyclist tick. Ride tandem and make yourself a robot for a stoker and guess what. No complaining from the back about not being able to see anything! You can break [...]
Posted in News Cycle, Rider Down, This Day in Doping | Tagged bike giveaways, Christmas bikes, fat cyclist, missy giove
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 12, 2009
Following up on my unrequited Xmas lust for an Ibis Mojo HD, PinkBike has the full Mojo on the HD. Bicycle Retailer: Nobody’s cracking open champagne, but Taiwan’s 2009 bike biz not as bad as it might at first seem. Duthie Work Party this weekend. Los Angeles appears headed toward passing a Bicycle Anti-Harassment Law. [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle | Tagged bicycle sales, cycling legislation, Duthie Hill mountain bike park, ibis mojo hd
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 11, 2009
Any of us who went through puberty know that 16-year-old girls are the toughest, strongest, orneriest creatures on earth. So here’s a mountain-biking version who did an unintentional 90-foot huck and lived to tell the tale, when she’s back up and around anyway. It also helped that she’s Scottish of course. Said the Welshman. Have [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged fat cyclist, giant bicycles, livestrong, wrongful death cyclist suit
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 9, 2009
Innovative use of signal-mounted cameras to automatically change light to green when cyclists are at intersection. Santa Clarita CA, named in 2007 a Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists, has requested $390,564 to fund a “Bicycle Video Detection Project.” VeloNews: More on the LeMond—Trek legal spat, this time with backstory of Greg [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Lance's Chances, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Racing | Tagged greg lemond, Jacquie Phelan, lance armstrong, Million Car Challenge, Santa Clarita CA bicycling, trek bicycles
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 7, 2009
Bicycle Retailer: So far bike vendors are saying it’s not as bad as last Christmas. You could knock me over with a feather, or even a double-butted spoke. S.F.StreetsBlog: When bikes ride in car lanes, it’s get that damn bike outta my way! When cars drive in bike lanes, it’s get that damn bike outta [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Transportation | Tagged california state parks mountain biking, san francisco bike lanes, steevo and amy, tom stienstra
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 4, 2009
Boise mountain biker has a campaign supporting an MTB license plate (for cars). Hey I’d pay extra. As it is my license plate holder says, “My other car is a mountain bike.” You know, it takes a special kind of hatred to kill a bicycle shop owner. What happens when clueless fools pass bicycling ordinances? [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Lance's Chances, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bike shop, greg lemond, idaho mountain bike license plate, lance armstrong
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 2, 2009
PinkBike: A new world speed record on a mountain bike! 131mph, which is just 21 mph faster than I’ve ever driven in a car. SF.StreetsBlog: They’re dancing, and wheely-popping, in the streets of San Francisco, which just got its first bike lane in 3 years, thanks to a partial break in an absurd legal logjam [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Rider Down | Tagged bike injuries, bike speed record, deadly roadways, high school cycling leagues, san francisco bike lanes, stolen bikes
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on November 20, 2009
Tomorrow is the big SF Bike Expo at the Cow Palace. Since along with the jump competition and usual eye candy there’s a killer swap meet, I will be a lighter cyclist in the wallet this time tomorrow. Also, they just announced Cove Bikes will be showing up. Back in the day I’d hang out [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged Appetite Seminar, Cove Bikes, Cow Palace, DrunkCyclist, joe breeze, SF Bike Expo
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on November 18, 2009
David Longdon: Join David and friends for a Thanksgiving Day Ride to benefit Northwest Harvest, the food bank people. Jacquie Phelan, who’s as good a mountain bike historian as we have these days, recalls crashing the boyz ride back in the day. Great writing, great reading. Yeah that’ll work: The City of Brotherly Love looks [...]
Posted in News Cycle | Tagged alice b. toeclips, bicycle licensing, northwest harvest
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on November 14, 2009
Easton recalls bikes because of piece-of-crap stems that break. The saga of Sam Brown, the brilliant slopestylist who took his own life after being arrested for drug trafficking, makes CBC television. Part III in SeattleLikesBikes wonderful series on the Burke-Gilman Trail’s “missing link” in Ballard. There is justice in the world: Palo Alto cops track [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bike thief caught, easton recall, fat cyclist, fruita, sam brown mountain biking, seattle missing link
