Racing
Pro road and mountain bike racing, as well as slopestyle and other bike competition
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 29, 2010
In mainstream media the advice goes like this: If you want to bury bad news, release it on a Friday afternoon. Well this is the blogosphere, folks, and we’re creating a whole new dynamic. You release bad news on a Friday, you’ve got a hailstorm from hell on your hands. Case in point: Riccardo Ricco’s [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged cera. blood doping, cycling doping, riccardo ricco, vania rossi
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
Guy gets so excited about Google Street View camera he crashes his bike. I’ve heard of more riders losing their iPhones exactly this way. In 2009, the Dutch bought 1.3 million bicycles. Which is 1.3 million fewer than Americans bought in the first quarter of 2009. No longer does Preston Peterson have an excuse to [...]
Posted in Lance's Chances, News Cycle | Tagged bicycle RV, cycling for haiti relief, lance armstrong
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 26, 2010
It’s not easy naming trails, and it’s gotten progressively harder as the sport of mountain biking has become more respectable. Somewhat off-color or “out there” names that captured the real spirit of the trail became harder to stick with when the trails made it into print — on maps, book guides, local tourist literature and [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail | Tagged top 10 mountain bike trail names
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 26, 2010
BikingBis: Top bike-club names. Can’t argue with Gene on these. We did have the privilege of serving with a 1980s club founded by the estimable epicure, Bradford O’Connor, in celebration of one of his favorite beverages. It was called Team Green Death, in reference to the suitably toxic Rainier Brewery product, which served as official [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Lance's Chances, News Cycle, Rider Down | Tagged bike safety, bikingbis, lance armstrong, zoic
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 25, 2010
Yes it’s early, but we continue to see signs that this year’s Tour de France is shaping up as a real bike race (as opposed to a single team of prima donnas controlling a docile peloton). We think it’s good for the sport, especially because we may be spared endless Clash of Titans bloviating re [...]
Posted in Lance's Chances, Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged alberto contador, andre greipel, Andy Schleck, lance armstrong, samuel sanchez, tour de france 2010
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
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 22, 2010
At this point there’s not a lot that can be definitively said about the mess at Whistler, other than there’s much more going on behind the scenes than we’re being told. That and the reporting on this so far has been opaque. Typically any high-profile bankruptcy “announcement” is simply high-stakes brinkmanship aimed at loosening up [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged Crankworx, whistler bankruptcy, whistler mountain bike park
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 22, 2010
This will be interesting: “Bike Pure feel this is a major step forward in highlighting the problems cyclesport faces as sponsors look for a positive return on their financial investment within the sport. “There is a momentum for major change within cycling, fans of the sport no longer want the dopers destroying its image. This [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged BikePure, blood doping
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 21, 2010
Who’s the stronger rider: Mountain biker or roadie? At Bike Intelligencer, drawing from years of suffering in both disciplines, we’ve often opined for the former. We know personally that, despite having done numerous double centuries, triathlons and races during our nearly six decades aboard two wheels, our hardest rides by far have been the six-to-eight [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged Andy Schleck, burry stander, lance armstrong, mountain bike action magazine
