Mountain Biking
Pro slalom, downhill, slopestyle, cross-country and other mountain biking competition
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 20, 2009
The Tour de France is enjoying a rest day, but bloggers never sleep. Bloggers never sleep because, as mainstream media constantly remind us, we work in our pajamas. Until someone comes up with a new form of sleepwear, bloggers can consequently have no rest. Neither will Andy Schleck, my man in this year’s Tour and [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Racing | Tagged evil bikes, Jan Heine, Ragbrai, seattle times, Tour de France, Tyler Morland
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 18, 2009
Kudos to Cyclelicio.us for picking up on this: In Colorado, of all places (mountain and road biking both are hugely popular there), Jefferson County commissioners have some cloth-eared notion of banning bikes on any and all county roads. Richard asks we help spread the word and nip this stinker in the bud. Here’s some key [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bike license fee, downieville, Mountain Biking, Road Cycling
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 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 9, 2009
I spent yesterday exploring Marin trails with a couple of locals. The Marin that gets depicted on the maps and in the guide books is a mere appetizer to the feast of Marin mountain biking that actually exists. The “public” mountain-biking Marin naturally shunts riders onto the well-trammeled routes, mostly on Mount Tamalpais, in the [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Obama Bikes, Trail Access | Tagged Camp Tamarancho, China Camp State Park, Marin County mountain biking, Mount Tamalpais
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 8, 2009
Cyclelicious reports on lunch with Paul Andrews…wait a minute, that’s me! Actually it is I who should be reporting on lunch with Richard Masoner, founder of Cyclelicio.us and one of the pioneers of bike-news blogging. As the estimable Jonathan Maus of BikePortland.org put it in an interview with Bicycle Times: “One of the first blogs [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Mountain Biking | Tagged BikePortland.org, Cyclelicious, Jonathan Maus, Richard Masoner
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 2, 2009
The bike tax bogeyman has reared its senseless head in Portland. Bad place to raise that canard. BikePortland.org is on the case and has major media alerted. Publicola: Bikes will be allowed on Seattle’s new light rail trains after all on opening weekend, after the Cascade Bicycle Club organized a huge protest. Erica C. Barnett [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Transportation | Tagged bike bumping, bike levy, Bike tax, california state park closures, caltrain, cascade bicycle club, sound transit
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 2, 2009
This Day in Drugs: Thomas Dekker is out of the Tour for doping…in 2007! Think the UCI honchos are trying to send a message here? Wonder how many of Lance’s old samples they have lying around, waiting for some new technology to analyze? BC Bike Race, Day 3: Morons are removing course flags to screw [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, This Day in Doping | Tagged BC Bike Race, cascade bicycle club, Dave Wiens, lance armstrong, thomas dekker, Tour de France, tyler farrar
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 1, 2009
Velo News interview. Lance is still talking like he could win. He’s “not confident” like he was for 6 and 7, he admits. But he’s not willing to say he’ll lay down for Contador. “The road will decide.” Watch the video and compare his right shoulder (the injured one) with his left. The guy does [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Racing | Tagged 29er, alberto contador, BC Bike Race, Fluidride Cup, knolly delirium, lance armstrong, Tour de France
