March 2007 archive

Bike from 2006 handmade bike show

Picture from North American Handmade Bicycle Show website

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Confessions of a bike rider: February mileage

Back at the end of 2006, I made the bold assertion that I would double last year's mileage and ride my bicycle at least 4,000 miles in 2007.

So far, I'm way off pace. Here are some of my lame excuses for this month:

First my high schooler was sick for three days at the beginning of February, then I came down with that energy-sapping virus for a few days myself …

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Dirty bike

Bainbridge Island road grit

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Grand Canyon shortcut lands 3 cyclists in jail

Do not, repeat, do not ride your bicycle into the Grand Canyon. Three men on an Alaska to South American bicycle tour decided to cycle across the Grand Canyon last month and found themselves sentenced to 48 hours in jail.

The trio is on a pan-American off-road bicycle tour they call Riding the Spine. They started at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, last year and plan to ride to the tip of South America.

The mountain bikers picked up the Arizona Trail — an 800-mile trail that spans Arizona from the Utah to Mexico borders — and decided to ride their bikes into the Grand Canyon and camp on the North Kaibab Trail. Bad idea…..

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More than bike racing on Hincapie's plate; there's Pla d'Adet

It's likely that the broken wrist that George Hincapie suffered at the Amgen Tour of California will keep him sidelined during the Paris-Roubaix — a bike race he's always wanted to win.

At his website, the Discovery Channel pro cycling team rider said he had surgery to repair the radius (a bone in his arm), but was unable to make predictions about how quickly it will heal. Team manager Johan Brunyeel told Eurosport that he'll probably miss the April 15 Paris-Roubaix, because of the miles of jarring cobblestones the cyclists cross.

Meanwhile, Hincapie says that, like many of his fans, “I'll be logging some hours on a Computrainer while I heal.”

He'll also probably be checking on the progress of his Pla d'Adet residential development …

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The Legless Lizard's Tour de Tejas

Mikhail Davenport sets out this weekend to cycle 950 miles across Texas in 25 days.

No, it isn't a torrid pace. But the 58-year-old Texan is riding from El Paso to Beaumont on a hand-crank trike towing a trailer with his wheelchair.

Calling it the Legless Lizard Tour de Tejas, Davenport wants to raise awareness for disability issues currently in front of the state Legislature — such as the state's claims of immunity in not following regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act

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Mikhail Davenport

The Texan speed along on his handcrank trike.

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