Monthly Archive: June 2007
Following up on Thursday's post about US cyclists picked for 2007 Tour de France team rosters, Team CSC has chosen David Zabriskie and Christian Vande Velde.
Pending further changes, six US cyclists will race in the 2007 Tour de France.
Team CSC did not pick Bobby Julich for this year's Tour; T-Mobile chose neither Aaron Olson or Canadian Michael Barry.
Zabriskie is the US time trial champion and finished 5th overall in the week-long Dauphine Libere earlier this month, surviving the many climbs of that bike race. A teammate, Fabian Cancellara, is the world time trial champ. …
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Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/29/zabriskie-and-vande-velde-picked-for-tour-de-france-rosters/
OK. There's no Lance and no Landis, but we still have Levi for this year's Tour de France bicycle race.
Even so, broadcast media watcher MediaDailyNews says the Versus cable network is in for a “rough ride” with this year's Tour de France broadcast ratings, what with no clear American favorite and the doping scandals that are ripping apart cycling.
Versus has scheduled 17 hours of daily Tour de France coverage from the July 7th prologue in London to the July 29th finish in Paris. The usual suspects will be behind the microphones: Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen are returning as the main commentators, and Bob “Tour Day France” Roll and Al Trautwig will host the extended prime-time replay. …
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Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/29/dont-bet-against-versus-for-tour-de-france-viewership/
Are you looking for the end-of-season challenge to test your bicycling fitness? If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you might consider the High Pass Challenge presented by the Cascade Bicycle Club.
Offered by the Seattle-based bicycle club for the first time in 2007, the Challenge is a 120-mile, one-day bike ride that features 7,500 feet of elevation gain.
Cyclists will begin in Packwood, Washington, between 7 and 8 a.m. on Sept. 23, and climb Independence Pass, pedal past Spirit Lake and arrive at the Windy Ridge Viewpoint of the Mount St. Helens blast zone in the national monument. …
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Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/29/new-pacific-nw-bike-ride-high-pass-challenge/
New Cascade Bicycle Club ride starts in Packwood, Washington. Here's the link.
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June 29, 2007
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/29/high-pass-challenge-bike-ride/
Pro cycling teams are announcing their rosters for the 2007 Tour de France as the race starts in London in a little more than a week.
The US-based Discovery Channel pro cycling team is sending a squad led by California's Levi Leipheimer, winner of the Tour of California in February. He'll be joined by US road champion George Hincapie.
The rest of Discovery's international cast is comprised of Alberto Contador, Vladimir Gusev, Egoi Martinez, Benjamin Noval, Sergio Paulinho, Yaroslav Popovych and Tomas Vaitkus…
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Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/28/us-cyclists-on-2007-tour-de-france-team-rosters/
If there's one thing that Kentucky is known for among cross-country bicyclists, it's the dogs.
When my friend and I rode through there on our TransAmerica bike tour back in 1984, I remember pedaling some rural areas where the baying hounds would telegraph our passage right on down the road.
Barking isn't the problem, however. It's the chasing and biting.
Kentucky's bicycle and pedestrian coordinator, Tiffani Jackson, wants to learn more about this problem. Adventure Cycling Association notes in a recent edition of “Bike Bits” that she wants cyclists to contact her about about cyclist-dog encounters “so I can start to show people how big of a problem dogs are here in the state.” …
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Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/27/tell-kentucky-official-your-dog-attack-stories/
Not what you want to see on your bucolic pedal through rural America
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June 27, 2007
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/27/dog/
Why don't more people ride bicycles?
According to a survey conducted in Washington state, it's because they never learned to ride in the first place or they don't know how to ride in traffic.
Those results from a telephone survey surprised the state Department of Transportation official who sought the input as part of the state's effort to update its 12-year-old bicycling and pedestrian plan. …
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Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/25/top-reasons-why-people-dont-ride-a-bicycle/
Forget about the dishes in the sink. Forget about mowing the lawn and posting your blog. Forget about sleep. If you had 24 hours, how far could you ride your bicycle?
More than 400 bicyclists met at the National 24-Hour Challenge last weekend near Grand Rapids, Michigan, to seek the answer to that question. It was the 24th meeting for the event.
Seattle resident Craig Ragsdale, 29, learned he could set the course record by covering 502.6 miles. Just as amazing, 67-year-old Dave Thomsen of Austin, Minnesota, bicycled 403.9 miles. …
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Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/24/how-far-can-you-ride-your-bicycle-in-24-hours/
Website for National 24-hour Challenge
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June 23, 2007
Permanent link to this article: http://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/23/national-24-hour-challenge/
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