(Updated April 3) A former aide to Lance Armstrong claims he found a banned substance in the cyclist's Girona, Spain, apartment in early 2004, according to court papers filed in Austin on Thursday.

An Associated Press story reports that Armstrong and the aide, Mike ...   more »

New bicycle trails -- or plans for new trails -- are blooming across the country this spring.

The Seattle Times reports a section of the Centennial Trail in Snohomish County will be opened on Saturday. It's just one of the ...   more »

Six-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong announced after Tuesday's Paris-Camembert bicycle race that he would hold a press conference before the Tour de Georgia, which begins April 19. An announcement about an announcement. What does Lance want to tell us? Here's a short list:   more »

Lance Armstrong is nudging closer to the podium in this spring's bicycle races.

The 6-time Tour de France winner finished in a chase group just behind winner Laurent Brochard in today's Paris-Camembert.

The 37-year-old Brochard, of France, won the 124-mile ...   more »

Are your legs sore after these spring bicycle rides? It might not be that you're too out of shape. Fitness experts encourage cyclists to use smaller gears and keep a high cadence while they ride, especially now that your body is recovering from its winter doldrums.

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New York City is continuing its crackdown on cyclists who ride en masse through the streets on the last Friday of the month. At the latest critical mass rally, Associated Press reports, police in the Big Apple arrested 37 ...   more »

Americans Bobby Julich and George Hincapie had strong showings on Sunday; Julich winning the Criterium Internationale held in France and Hincapie finishing sixth -- just behind the winner -- in the Brabantse Pijl bike race in Belgium.   more »

Organizers of the Tour of California want it to become the next Tour de France, not the Tour de Trump. Plans for an eight-stage cycling race, with $35 million in backing from the organizers, to take place next February were announced Friday.   more »

What inspires Don Boehly to keep pedaling?

The 49-year-old handyman from Grayson, Ky., is cycling through all 50 states to raise awareness for the families of the victims of 9/11.

He began bicycling Sept. 1, 2003, and so far has ...   more »

Already scheduled to return to the bicycle peloton next Tuesday for the Paris-Camembert, Lance Armstrong actually will begin competition on Sunday in Belgium. "He called me this afternoon and said he feels great in the training and is hungry to race,"    more »

(Updated July 30, 2005: See "Money for Cycling in Transportation bill passed by Congress.")Bicyclists could benefit when Congress rolls out the pork barrel this year.

A highway funding bill includes more than $242 million for building bike and hike paths and trails in the US. It also includes an ambitious safe-routes-to-school program to get school kids out of their parents' cars and encourage them to ride bicycles or walk to school.

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The deadline to apply for that rolling bicycle party called the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI) is coming up on April 1.

So many people want to ride, that the Iowa event organizers limit participation to 8,500 ...   more »

An analysis concludes that Bellevue's plan for improvements to West Lake Sammamish Parkway could actually make the road more hazardous to bicyclists than it is today.

The city's proposal for improvements to the 5.5-mile, two-lane road calls for no bikes ...   more »

Lance Armstrong is looking for 20 bicyclists who can ride their bicycles -- relay fashion -- day and night for nine days from San Diego to Washington DC. Along the way, the cyclists will be called on to share their ...   more »

Starting in early April, bicyclists in Washington State can find an organized cycling event to ride in just about every weekend through October.

The list I compiled over this past weekend starts with a colorful ride through the tulips and ends ...   more »

(Updated March 21) Motorists in Utah will have to give bicycle riders 3 feet of clearance when they pass, according to a bill that Gov. Jon Huntsman was expected to sign on Friday.

The signing of the bill is only a partial victory ...   more »

The owners of a bicycle shop on the C and O Canal in Hancock, Maryland, are offering their business to the best essayist. The business includes the shop, a general store, and bunkhouse for folks bicycle touring on the 185-mile trail along the Potomac River.

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Bicycling advocates are fighting for the addition of bike lanes to proposed improvements to the dangerous West Lake Sammamish Parkway in Bellevue. Currently, the city's staff is proposing a multi-use trail on the southbound shoulder that forces northbound and southbound bicycle riders and pedestrians to share the same 8- to 10-foot space. Bellevue City Council meetings on the issue are coming up.   more »

When I set out to ride by bicycle cross-country 21 years ago, I didn't expect to meet so many helpful and remarkable people along the way. There was Lazy Louie in Missouri, the preacher in Elk Garden, and a Navajo Code Talker in Arizona. But the first, and most memorable, person I met was June "The Cookie Lady" Curry.   more »

June "The Cookie Lady" Curry, who suffered a stroke in February is doing "remarkably well," according to close friend Joyce Cooke.

June lives in Afton, Virginia, a town on the TransAmerican bicycle route. She has provided refreshments and a place to stay ...   more »

CyclingNews conducted an interview with six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong last week that it just published today.

The timing of the interview is interesting ...   more »

Road cyclists who bought frames from Roark Custom Titanium Cycles need to check for cracks.

Roark, in cooperation with Consumer Product Safety Commission, said frames on 422 bicycles produced and sold between January 1997 and December 2004 could crack and ...   more »

Schwinn, Murray, Huffy ... the names of bicycle makers that have closed factories in the US or moved overseas goes on and on. Although most of the big operations have packed up and left, small frame builders are making a resurgence.

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With all eyes on Lance Armstrong this spring, fellow American Bobby Julich quiety trained for the beginning of the European pro racing season. And as Armstrong sat at his home in Girona, Spain, nursing an illness that knocked him out of the Paris-Nice race on Wednesday, Julich took the podium as the first American to win the week-long bicycle race in its 63-year history.

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A 62-year-old cyclist from Kentucky is embarking on a cross-country bicycle trek this summer to teach kids a lesson. Joe Bowen is cycling 14,000 miles to retrace the route he took 38 yeas ago. Along the way, he'll file reports aimed at schools in eastern Kentucky.   more »

A bill in the Missouri legislature would require motorists to give bicycle riders a 3-foot clearance when passing. If it passes, it would benefit Mo's cycling citizens as well as all those loaded down bicycle tourists riding the TransAmerica route on the state's narrow roads.   more »

A sore throat and fever has sidelined Lance Armstrong from the snowy Paris-Nice bicycle race. Team officials said Armstrong would not start Thursday's stage and would return immediately to his home in Girona, Spain.   more »

The Canadian conglomerate that now produces Schwinn brand bicycles reports it had a record year in 2004. Dorel Industries said profits were up 69%. It credited its acquisition of Pacific Cycle, the owner of the Schwinn brand, for its success.   more »

Can't afford to travel to Paris to see the conclusion of this year's Tour de France? The Bartlesville (OK) Examiner Enterprise suggests riding the Oklahoma Freewheel, which starts in Paris, Texas -- Eiffel Tower and all.   more »

Bicycle tourists who have ridden the Bikecentennial route through Virginia have surely met June Curry, the "Cookie Lady."

She has dispensed cool water and cookies to thousands of weary bicyclists struggling up the steep climb to Rockfish Gap in the Shenandoah Mountains.

The Richmond Times Dispatch reports that June, 84, suffered a stroke on Feb. 20 and is undergoing therapy at a skilled nursing facility. She hopes to reopen the bike house this spring, but admits that she'll need help.

When I visited the Cookie Lady on my TransAmerica bicycle ride in 1984, and again during Bike Virginia in 2000, I was struck by all the cards that papered the walls of her bike house. As I recall, she doesn't have any surviving close family members; she considers all of us bicycle tourists as her family. If anyone would like to wish her well, I'm sure she'd like to hear from you. Her home address is:

June Curry
3252 Afton Mountain Road
Afton, VA 22920

Also, her address at the hospital (the Times Dispatch reports she'll be out Friday) is:

June Curry
Augusta Medical Center
Room 240
96 Medical Center Drive
Fishersville, VA 22939

"The first four hours are easy. The fifth hour is not so hard. The last hour is torture."   more »

Some Colorado lawmakers don't trust cyclists' judgment, and that could puncture passage of a bill that would allow cyclists to ride side by side. Currently, bicycle riders in Colorado have to move over to single file whenever a car is within 300 feet -- a requirement that is difficult to gauge.   more »

Texan Lance Armstrong climbs back on the saddle for the Paris-Nice prologue this Sunday, the beginning of his first Euro pro cycling race since he wore the yellow jersey in Paris last summer.    more »

Bicyclists riding the Lewis & Clark trail can keep track of what was happening to the expedition 200 years earlier in its journals. Now a blog adds a wider perspective to the expedition.   more »

I was mildly surprised when I first learned that the Trek model that Lance Armstrong rides in the Tour de France is available to mere mortals, like me.

Now Trek has gone one better. It's making available 600 exact replicas of the Madone 5.9 that Lance rode into Paris in 2004. The so-called LiveStrong bicycles are numbered and Lance has signed each one.   more

John Aeby's column in the Eugene (Ore.) Register Guard nails the reason behind taking weeklong bicycle rides... "disconnecting yourself from your workaday life." (updated March 3)   more »

Bicycle through a red light or wait for it to turn green? Ride single-file or two abreast? Enjoy a 3-foot clearance from passing traffic? Pay a recycling fee for a new bicycle? These are just some of the issues that are being argued this winter by state legislatures in several Western states.   more »

I don't want to sound like an anal retentive bicycle killjoy, but this picture scares the heck out of me.

The photo, taken by Karen Ducey, appeared in Monday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer story about the annual Chilly Hilly ride. Because of unseasonably decent weather, some 5,000 bicyclists showed up to pedal the 33-mile ride on Bainbridge Island.

This is a long-time event (more than 30 years) sponsored every spring by the Cascade Bicycle Club, so motorists on the island are probably prepared to find cyclists weaving back and forth all over the ride's many steep climbs. The club reminded cyclists that the roads are open to traffic and to ride no more than two abreast. That can be a struggle on some of these hills, though.