Racing
Pro road and mountain bike racing, as well as slopestyle and other bike competition
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 4, 2010
Police are seeking witnesses to reckless driving — injured cyclist accident near Redmond. Police are looking for a “newer red Honda Odyssey.” Someone out there knows, time to step forward and do the right thing. And there’s a TV report. Note that one of the riders has a seat cam but apparently wasn’t using it [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bicycle accident, bicycle violence, bikingbis, gene bisbee, sextagenarian cyclist, vulnerable user law
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 3, 2010
The recent passing of Bernie Hoffacker, founder of Palo Alto Bicycles, rekindled a lot of memories from our roadie days back in the ’70s. When the Euro revolution was just starting to sink in, Hoffacker’s Palo Alto Bicycles and Ric and Jon Hjertberg’s Wheelsmith a couple blocks away made Palo Alto one of the coolest [...]
Posted in Racing | Tagged Bernie Hoffacker, eric hjertberg, greg lemond, jacques boyer, jon hjertberg, lance armstrong, palo alto bicycles, Tour de France, wheelsmith
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 3, 2010
In which our intrepid duo climbs the world’s longest, most boring fire road, traverses the Talus Field From Hell, and finishes in complete darkness, riding by Braille. Was this fun or what?! This btw concludes our holiday “classics” series. Happy 2010, ride safe out there! Still basking in Sun Valley’s halo, Jim Lyon and I [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged BBTC, devils backbone, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, pot peak
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 1, 2010
Here are our Top 10 things to watch for in the world of cycling for the coming year. Yes we thought about a Top 2,010 list for numerical compliance, but hey, that’d be way too much work. 1. In the Washington State legislature, a “Vulnerable User” bill. Similar legislation failed last year but the Cascade [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Lance's Chances, Mountain Biking, Obama Bikes, Racing | Tagged cascade bicycle club, duthie hill, jill kintner, lance armstrong, mayor mike mcginn, stevens pass mountain bike park, top 10 cycling issues 2010, tyler farrar, vulnerable user bill
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 31, 2009
[Note: Continuing our holiday series of Bike Intelligencer's past Classic Epics, we hearken back to a memorable triptych in 2003 covering Mt. St. Helens' Juniper Ridge, Oregon's McKenzie River Trail and, further south, Oregon's North Umpqua River Trail.] Finally the big day was imminent. After getting back to the Smith River reservoir on the McKenzie [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged Anthony Cree, Mire Levy, North Umpqua River Trail, oregon mountain biking, Peter Partel the Gonzz
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 31, 2009
Mark Weir‘s Marin home burned to the ground. He and his family are safe, thankfully, but what a loss… Best wishes to the Weir clan. Ooof…bike sales down 5 percent in October, shipments down 11 percent. It’s gonna be awhile before we dig out of this hole, folks. On the brighter side, Mountain Bike Action‘s [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bicycle sales, evil bikes, jimmy mac, mark weir, mountain bike action, steve smith, top 10 bike names of all time
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 30, 2009
[Note: Continuing our holiday series of Bike Intelligencer's past Classic Epics, we hearken back to a memorable triptych in 2003 covering Mt. St. Helens, Oregon's McKenzie River Trail and the North Umpqua River Trail.] Anthony, Mire, Gonzz and I had talked about doing Oregon’s legendary McKenzie River Trail after — not before — Umpqua. But [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged Anthony Cree, McKenzie River Trail, Mire Levy, Peter Partel, Three Sisters
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 29, 2009
[Note: Continuing our holiday series of Bike Intelligencer's past Classic Epics, we hearken back to a memorable triptych in 2003 covering Mt. St. Helens, Oregon's McKenzie River Trail and the North Umpqua River Trail.] After a rest day in Seattle it was time to hit the road for Mount St. Helens. I hadn’t explored this [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged Armando Malo, Ellsworth Dare, Juniper Ridge, Mt. St. Helens, Preston Peterson
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 29, 2009
Guy gets beat over the head with a bicycle … did the cops ask victim, “Were you wearing a helmet?” The Capitol Hill Seattle Blog is tracking what happened to the neighborhood Bike Corral. NY Times writeup on Danny MacAskill is also about how YouTube makes celebrities out of everyday folks … the way newspapers [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bike corral capitol hill seattle, bikesnobnyc, Danny MacAskill, mountain bike action magazine, rc, unicycle
