Racing
Pro road and mountain bike racing, as well as slopestyle and other bike competition
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 28, 2009
Bicycle.net quotes Zirbel to the effect that he doesn’t know what happened. Particularly when a new year is coming, and you want to have hope, you wish you could believe a rider who says he was wronged. But you have to think that the monitoring system is set up in a rigorous enough way that [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, DHEA, tom zirbel
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 28, 2009
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, this would be a gimongous post. Enough said. The bicycle as an anti-theft device. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9r6nd9ruNA&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] A bicycle without a fork. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qiR7E3dpjk&hl=en_US&fs=1&] The bicycle as a levitation device. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbJ1sseQVbY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged Danny MacAskill, forkless bicycle, thieves foiled by bicycle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 28, 2009
[Note: When the holidays slow news down, we reach into Santa's bag of tricks for a hearkening back to our favorite rides. This week we're featuring a 2004 expedition to Moab, Utah, America's mountain biking mecca and an international magnet for mountain bikers everywhere.] Planning our trip to Moab, Jim and I had talked about [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged moab mountain biking, white rim mountain bike
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 27, 2009
[Note: When the holidays slow news down, we reach into Santa's bag of tricks for a hearkening back to our favorite rides. This week we're featuring a 2004 expedition to Moab, Utah, America's mountain biking mecca and an international magnet for mountain bikers everywhere.] You might think that after riding 32-plus miles and climbing 4,000-plus [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged jacob's ladder, moab mountain biking, moab race loop
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 26, 2009
Please consider taking the BikePortland pledge. Jonathan & crew run a great blog, must reading here at Bike Intelligencer. And while you’re at it, the Ghost Bikes Film Project is a worthwhile cause as well. BikeJuju photo contest winners. Amazing, amazing shots. BikePure: Trying to reboot a soiled sport. SeattleLikesBikes: Making cyclists 2nd class citizens. [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, This Day in Doping | Tagged bikejuju.com, BikePortland.org, BikePure, seattlelikesbikes, sexier cyclists
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 26, 2009
[Note: When the holidays slow news down, we reach into Santa's bag of tricks for a hearkening back to our favorite rides. This week we're featuring a 2004 expedition to Moab, Utah, America's mountain biking mecca and an international magnet for mountain bikers everywhere.] Porcupine Rim ranks second, behind the Tahoe Rim Trail, as my [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged moab mountain biking, porcupine rim
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 24, 2009
[Note: When the holidays slow news down, we reach into Santa's bag of tricks for a hearkening back to our favorite rides. This week we're featuring a 2004 expedition to Moab, Utah, America's mountain biking mecca and an international magnet for mountain bikers everywhere.] The Sovereign Trail When we picked up our bikes at Poison [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged moab mountain biking, sovereign trail
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 23, 2009
Waxahachie: Police donate 70 bikes. A 10-year-old raises money to give away bikes. “Bicycle Man” breaks the record with 1,100 bike giveaways! What makes Fat Cyclist tick. Ride tandem and make yourself a robot for a stoker and guess what. No complaining from the back about not being able to see anything! You can break [...]
Posted in News Cycle, Rider Down, This Day in Doping | Tagged bike giveaways, Christmas bikes, fat cyclist, missy giove
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 23, 2009
[Note: When the holidays slow news down, we reach into Santa's bag of tricks for a hearkening back to our favorite rides. This week we're featuring a 2004 expedition to Moab, Utah, America's mountain biking mecca and an international magnet for mountain bikers everywhere.] Moab Rim What happens in Moab, in case it’s not blindingly [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged moab mountain biking, porcupine rim
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 22, 2009
[Note: When the holidays slow news down, we reach into Santa's bag of tricks for a hearkening back to our favorite rides. This week we're featuring a 2004 expedition to Moab, Utah, America's mountain biking mecca and an international magnet for mountain bikers everywhere.] Portal and the Passion Sunday morning dawned crisp but sunny, with [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail | Tagged moab mountain biking, Poison Spider, Portal
