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By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 5, 2010
Nice folo from VeloNews on the Trek-LeMond settlement. You have to read between the lines here. From the judge’s questions, it looked virtually certain that Lance’s doping suspicions would be raised in the trial (Lance’s ex was barred by her attorney from answering questions during deposition about his doping). That would have put Trek under [...]
Posted in Racing | Tagged greg lemond, lance armstrong, trek lemond lawsuit settlement, velo news
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 5, 2010
The Northern California rains of recent weeks have taken a grim toll on mountain biking trails. Erosion is severe in many places. Blowdowns, while not as widespread as might be expected, have kept trail crews busy. And some trails are just plain under water — a rarity for the region, but fact nonetheless. The practice [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail | Tagged bay area mountain biking, forest of nisene marks, mike ferrentino, mountain bikers of santa cruz, northern california mountain biking, Santa Cruz Bicycles, wilder ranch state park
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 4, 2010
How did we do it? In our campaign to bring together Team Rehab for the Dopers Reunion Tour de France 2010, how did we forget about Tom Boonen? Admittedly, Boonen did not test positive for a performance enhancer. He was dinged for cocaine, which only makes you THINK your performance is enhanced. Still, drugs is [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, cocaine, cycling doping, dopers reunion, team rehab, tom boonen, tour de france 2010
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 4, 2010
The Ghost Bikes Film Project that Bike Intelligencer subscribed to failed to reach its fundraising goal, but Meaghan Wilbur says she’ll soldier on and do the documentary one way or another. Best of luck to her! Man riding a bike in Naples, FL gets a “DUI” for being intoxicated. $7,000 bail. Chicago DUI Lawyers is [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged ghost bikes film project, left cross, utah bicycle yield legislation
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 3, 2010
There’s a lot of intrigue surrounding the 29er “revolution,” especially since the mere existence of 29ers gives us bike geeks a chance to mull yet another arrow in our quiver. I mean, I love my Ibis Mojo. But now Ibis has come out with the Mojo HD, and since I have an HDTV … well, [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged aptos, epicenter cycling, titus cycles, titus rockstar 29er
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 2, 2010
Two-year suspension for Danilo Di Luca comes at a terrible time, as we continue to assemble our our dream Team Rehab in the Dopers Reunion Tour de France 2010. So far Michael Rasmussen and Alexander Vinokourov are on board, and we’re hoping for Floyd Landis. Only a miracle would get our favorite doper, Tyler Hamilton, [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, cera, danilo di luca
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 February 1, 2010
Ricco denies involvement with his girlfriend’s doping. Girlfriend denies doping. They might at least get on the same page on this… Ricco compared to a cobra. So the question, as Ricco prepares to renew his racing career in May, is: What happens when you give a snake a second chance? All in all we think [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, cera, riccardo ricco, vania rossi
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 1, 2010
So we have a question here. Exactly how cautious does a cyclist have to be to prevent a driver from turning left in front of him or her? We almost got run down today in Aptos in that very scenario, so we’d like, really, we’d love to know. You wonder if this cop would tell [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Lance's Chances, News Cycle, Rider Down | Tagged e-bikes, electric bikes, lance armstrong, pinarello dogma, tour de france 2010
