News Cycle
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By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 30, 2009
Cascade is compiling a list of Bike Month events, here‘s the early release. Bike to Work Day on May 15th should be a barnburner this year! Bicycle Retailer: If what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, then Bike Magazine may have a second wind after all. Here’s the optimistic outlook. The potential darker truth: Print [...]
Posted in Culture, News Cycle, Racing | Tagged bike month, cascade bicycle club, Giro d'Italia, lance armstrong, Tour of Gila
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 29, 2009
Bicycle Retailer: Bike Magazine is the best-written bike mag extant, so it’s discouraging that the parent company is filing for bankruptcy. The promise is to keep publishing, but no one except cave dwellers is in the dark about print publishing’s woes these days. One of the great things about Bike Magazine has been its sponsorships [...]
Posted in Culture, News Cycle | Tagged bike magazine, Glenn Erickson, Hood Canal Bridge, Parkinson's Disease
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 28, 2009
Traveling back from the hugely successful Sea Otter Classic and brought back to Seattle some digitally compressed California sunshine, 1,000/1 ratio enabling an entire afternoon of sunlight to be transported in a container the size of a bike water bottle. US Patent No. A3587468bbT It’s all in the algorithm. I have enough in store to [...]
Posted in Culture, News Cycle | Tagged 3 feet please, cascade bicycle club, David Hiller, Giro d'Italia, lance armstrong, Tour of Gila
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 17, 2009
Bike sharing in Denver? From Bicycle Retailer: “Will 65 kiosks housing 1,000 bikes alter this sprawling Western city’s attitude toward bicycles and commuting?” Bike sharing clearly is a popular idea, the main challenge being “shrinkage” (theft). Even when the bikes are painted yellow, as in Portland, or used in densely urban areas, as in Paris, [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bike sharing, mountain biking by 198, sea otter classic
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 16, 2009
Cycling cam records crash. More cyclists are going to a helmet cam system for recording close calls and driver irresponsibility on the road. Here’s a video from Philly… 3-Feet-Please rule gets boost in Texas: “Ham says he supports a proposed bill, which would require vehicles to allow a safe distance of at least 3 feet [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged 3 feet please, bicycle hall of fame, Culture, davis california, Mountain Biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 31, 2009
Cascade Bicycle Club is promoting “Drive to Work Day” on, er, April 1st. ‘Nuf said. But while you’re chuckling, duck on over to the Seattle cycling club’s site and, in all seriousness, take the 2009 “Report Card on Cycling” survey. It’s quick and will be of tremendous help in setting cycling’s agenda for our city. [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Videos | Tagged cascade bicycle club, Fluidride, Mountain Biking, sea otter bicycle classic, seattle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 25, 2009
New details keep surfacing in the Lance Armstrong broken collarbone mishap. Instead of the earlier reported “clean break,” it now appears the bone broke into “multiple fragments.” Lance is putting his best hype forward, saying he expects to … what? be ready? ride part of? win? … the Giro. It isn’t clear. But as long [...]
Posted in Culture, News Cycle, Racing | Tagged Culture, imba, lance armstrong, Sea Otter
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 24, 2009
Bike Rumor: GT’s golden bike is missing! This is gonna be a tough sell even on eBay. Quite the bling, but it’ll show back up in a day or two. Iron Horse on the comeback trail? Bicycle Retailer reports that nine former employees of the bankrupt bike giant have decided to start their own operation. [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Videos | Tagged Hans Rey, Iron Horse, Moab, Mountain Biking, Poison Spider, Portal, steve peat
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 23, 2009
AP: “Today” show co-host Matt Lauer suffered a “displaced” (separated? dislocated? hire an editor?) shoulder when he took a header to avoid hitting a deer that jumped into his path. Sounds reasonable. You don’t want to hit a deer under any circumstances, because the deer always wins. Where in New York was he riding? The [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bike park, collapsible bike, Culture, foldable bike, matt lauer, mayor bloomberg, Mountain Biking, stevens pass bike park, united bicycle institute
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 19, 2009
Bicycle Retailer & Industry News: Iron Horse goes down. We’ve known for some time the company was on the ropes — as a friend put it, “How did those guys screw up so bad?” Iron Horse helped make the DW-link and could’ve rode that, um, horse to surefire success. But somehow it never found quite [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bikes and chicks, Culture, Dave Wiens, Iron Horse, lance armstrong, Leadville 100
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