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Pro road and mountain bike racing, as well as slopestyle and other bike competition
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 11, 2009
Whatever else you can say about Lance Armstrong, and we do a lot and often, he’s a master of public relations. He is helped along by the fact the bike press seems to have no institutional memory, but Lance spins as well off the cranks as on. The latest: “Lance says he will not be [...]
Posted in Lance's Chances, Racing | Tagged lance armstrong, Team Radio Shack, tour de france 2010
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 11, 2009
Any of us who went through puberty know that 16-year-old girls are the toughest, strongest, orneriest creatures on earth. So here’s a mountain-biking version who did an unintentional 90-foot huck and lived to tell the tale, when she’s back up and around anyway. It also helped that she’s Scottish of course. Said the Welshman. Have [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged fat cyclist, giant bicycles, livestrong, wrongful death cyclist suit
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 10, 2009
Hearkening back to our original theme of need v. want, the subject of bike armor straddles both worlds indecisively. If you care about that certain maniacal aggro or freeriding mountain biker on your list, you are going to want to get him or her something she or he may really need but might not really [...]
Posted in Accessories, Mountain Biking | Tagged brian lopes signature series, mountain bike armor, mountain bike pads, six six one evo
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 9, 2009
Our next gift suggestion for that amazing nonpareil cyclist on your list seems at first glance to have nothing to do with bicycles. It’s an iPhone. Here’s the deal. It used to be when I went out for a ride I would have to pack my phone, a camera, a digital recorder (for reminders, thoughts, [...]
Posted in Accessories, Mountain Biking | Tagged iPhone, iphone cycling apps, iphone mountain biking apps
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 9, 2009
Innovative use of signal-mounted cameras to automatically change light to green when cyclists are at intersection. Santa Clarita CA, named in 2007 a Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists, has requested $390,564 to fund a “Bicycle Video Detection Project.” VeloNews: More on the LeMond—Trek legal spat, this time with backstory of Greg [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Lance's Chances, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Racing | Tagged greg lemond, Jacquie Phelan, lance armstrong, Million Car Challenge, Santa Clarita CA bicycling, trek bicycles
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 9, 2009
Some good news for once: Sabine Spitz gets Olympic trophy for telling the dope doctors no, no, no.
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged anti-doping, cycling doping, sabine spitz
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 8, 2009
Next up in our rundown of gift ideas for the wundercyclist on your list is DVDs. I love giving DVDs for Christmas, for two reasons: 1. They’re cheap. They tend to run in the $25 range. You can also, especially this time of year, pick up discount DVDs at $10 to $20. They may not [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Videos | Tagged barred for life, dust and bones, freedom riders dvd, latitudes, mountain biking dvds, revolve dvd, simon lawton, stripped
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 8, 2009
Spanish rider Eladio Jiménez Sanchez was suspended by the UCI after testing positive for EPO at last summer’s Volta a Portugal. Doping violations are as we note a daily occurrence on the pro cycling circuit, but anecdotally it seems that Spain is more represented in recent months than any other nation. Not to implicate Spain’s [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged alberto contador, cycling doping, eladio jiminex sanchez, EPO
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 7, 2009
Our first installment on gift ideas for that supremely deserving cyclist on your list involves helmet cams. Everyone on two wheels wants one of these things. On a recent ride at Soquel Demo Forest I counted no fewer than a dozen helmet cams. They’re the hottest thing going for Gen X-treme. YouTube has had to [...]
Posted in Accessories, Mountain Biking, Videos | Tagged contourhd, galbraith mountain, gopro, helmet cams, helmetcamera.com, oregon scientific, twenty20, viosport
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 6, 2009
The issue for gift-giving to bike riders this season may be summed up in the epigrammatic Dylan lyric about need versus want (“Your debutante just knows what you neeeeed, I know what you waaaaannnt“). That special cyclist on your list may need a new pair of gloves. Or a chain for his or her bike. [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking | Tagged Appetite Seminar, christmas gift cyclists, Ibis Mojo, scot nicol
