By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 24, 2009
News reports following Lance Armstrong’s broken collarbone have emphasized that he still has a chance at “full recovery” to ride in the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France. We applaud the cycling community’s effervescent optimism. But let’s do a little reality-checking here. We all know Lance is a tremendous champion and incredible physical specimen who [...]
Posted in Culture, Racing | Tagged broken collarbone, Culture, Giro d'Italia, lance armstrong, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 19, 2009
Bicycle Retailer & Industry News: Iron Horse goes down. We’ve known for some time the company was on the ropes — as a friend put it, “How did those guys screw up so bad?” Iron Horse helped make the DW-link and could’ve rode that, um, horse to surefire success. But somehow it never found quite [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bikes and chicks, Culture, Dave Wiens, Iron Horse, lance armstrong, Leadville 100
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 17, 2009
Today’s ride: Mucho errands, so I popped over to the U District by way of Fremont and the Burke-Gilman Trail, then my standard Ravenna Way — Green Lake ride home. Uneventful for once, and the sun was even out. I did enjoy the sign in Gregg’s Greenlake Cycles. But I have to say, I’m going [...]
Posted in Culture, Today's Ride | Tagged Culture, lance armstrong
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 1, 2009
Dave Wiens, the former mountain bike racer who currently specializes in distance competition and kicked Lance Armstrong’s ass at last year’s grueling Leadville 100, weighs in on bike advocacy after the latest Outside magazine’s profile on him: “The bottom line here in the Gunnison Valley today is that trail users, including our freeriding community, and [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Racing | Tagged Dave Wiens, lance armstrong, Leadville 100, mountain bike racing
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 18, 2009
Sacto Bee: “The facts surrounding how the person came into possession of the bicycle are not being released at this time due to an ongoing investigation,” police said.
Posted in Racing | Tagged lance armstrong, Sacramento Bee, stolen bike recovered, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 16, 2009
Lance’s time trial bike was stolen in Sacramento, where he is competing in the Tour of California. If you see it, be sure to report it to police. It’s got his name on it. I’d hate to be Lance, going to his insurance company and being asked what the value of the claimed item was. [...]
Posted in Racing | Tagged lance armstrong, road racing, Stolen bike, time trial bike, tour of california
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 12, 2009
I’m in the camp that believes Lance benefitted from a lax and easily defeatable drug monitoring era in professional cycling. Since everyone else was doping too I’m not convinced he would not have won all those Tours anyway. But he should come clean. And now we get word that his deal with the renowned anti-doping [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged anti-doping, Bike Intelligencer, doping, lance armstrong, Mountain Biking, mtb, paul andrews, Tour de France
