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Ashland OR: A taste of Super D

Paul Andrews, BI editor — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:03:39 +0000

On a recent West Coast mtb tour, we got a chance to hang out at one of our favorite riding locales, Ashland OR. The longtime upper watershed trail network keeps evolving and maturing, and now much of it is incorporated into the official Super D downhill race course. We checked it out and had a rippin’ time!

Here’s pro racer Carl Decker riding some of the same stuff, only a whole lot better. I watched this video thinking, Wow, he’s really railing, but as good as he’s riding, who’s managing to keep pace on the helmet cam behind him? Then I saw that it was Adam Craig and hmmm, it all made sense!

Adam just won the 2011 Ashland Super D race (results here), with Carl finishing third.

News Cycle: Wheel life from all round

BikeIntelligencer staff — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:44:13 +0000

Freeride Mountain Bike World Tour is announced. This more or less formalizes a kind of ad hoc tour that’s been emerging throughout the past decade. There should be all kinds of efficiencies in cost, publicity, calendar and other facets. Interesting to note only 3 out of the first 10 announced events are in the U.S., an indication of how far the sport has expanded from its North American roots.

Besides freeriding and recreation, bike commuting is bringing more women into cycling as well.

A careless driver thoughtlessly opens a car door into the path of an oncoming cyclist, and a respected humanitarian is dead.

Duthie Hill gets ink in The Seattle Times. Not sure where the author came up with 5,000 members for Evergreen, but hey, we’ll take it! (Actual number is slightly above 800.)

On the mend in Bend: Adam Craig. He’ll be back before we know it.

The world’s second biggest bike show, Taipei Cycle, is off ‘n rolling, but where are the bloggers? Not a lot of grist coming out of the show. Must have something to do with travel budgets?

BikingBis’ 10 things to remember the next time you go bike touring. Clip ‘n save!

The final chapter: Jobst Brandt interviews conclude at Cozy Beehive with Part V.

NorCal Bikers gets a facelift. We like!

News Cycle: Lots of good in the world of bikes

Paul Andrews, BI editor — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:48:47 +0000

Good for Mike’s Bikes, whose Palo Alto store is right down the street from where we’re living: “More than a dozen employees of Mike’s Bikes, the largest independent bicycle retailer on the West Coast, loaded a shipping container Monday with more than 450 bicycles bound for Africa as part of an ongoing campaign to bring a permanent sustainable transportation solution to the troubled continent.”

Biking for the homeless: “Now, Nelson plans to set off from his home in Asheville, North Carolina, on March 19 on a new quest — to raise funds for the homeless and homeless veterans and to raise awareness about solutions for the problems of homelessness…”

Adam Craig out for 4 months with shredded ACL, we wish him a speedy recovery.

I kept my Schwinn Continental for 40 years before giving it to a youth bike program. But hey, it wasn’t rideable. This guy takes the cake.

After years of study and aeons of debate, it is still impossible to say definitively that helmets save lives. But that doesn’t stop us all from trying. Aside: Some of my worst bell-ringers have come in fairly innocuous tumbles, e.g., losing balance in a slow section and going over backwards. If you hit your head, it’s gonna hurt, helmet or not. So why take the chance on going lid-less?

Fat Cyclist, newly anointed Hall of Fame blogger, is a big fat cyclist. Actually he’s not. Just his ego. Not even that either. It’s impossible not to like Fat Cyclist, no matter how easy he tries to make it.

We’ve said it before, you can’t be DUI on a bike. You can, however, be RUI.