Organizers of the Tour of Utah cancelled the week-long bicycle race this year due to a lack of sponsors.
Sounds like a familiar refrain? The Tour of Georgia is going ahead without a title sponsor but is depending on smaller sponsors and a hoped for $1 million infusion from Georgia taxpayers.
The inaugural Tour of Missouri also is seeking a title sponsor as is the Montreal-Boston Tour. The only big US tour flush with money this year was the Tour of California, which was sponsored by drug-maker Amgen for the second straight year. ... more»
Here's a way to get smashed while you're cycling and walk away unscathed.
The PedalPub in Minneapolis-St. Paul is a rolling bar built for 16. Ten seats are set up with freewheels for pedaling, with room for a few freeloaders, a bartender and a driver.
Owners Al Boyce and Eric Olson report at their PedalPub website that the activity is strictly legal -- PedalPub doesn't sell, supply or serve any beverages. That's left up to the renters who can bring anything along, much as they would in a limo. ... more»
It's sometimes a challenge to schedule bicycling tours that don't conflict with other recreational events.
But I was surprised to discover the niche of naked bicycling was so crowded on the Seattle calendar that the organizers of the World Naked Bike Ride here are struggling to find an open date.
I was reading over at the Gadling bicycle touring blog that World Naked Bike Rides -- protesting oil dependency and the car culture -- were held in Australia and South America on March 10, and that similar rides are scheduled in the northern half of the planet on June 9 and 30. I thought it would be cool to post the local date on the my bicycling calendar. ... more»
The growing obesity rate of Americans is one of the items that struck me in Trek Bicycle boss John Burke's slideshow to other bicycle makers the other day.
Burke showed a series of slides, represented at right, showing the increase and geographical range of obesity rates among adults Americans in the past 15 years.
If you're in the obesity range -- 30 pounds overweight for a 5-foot-4 adult -- or you want to hold your weight steady, you might be interested to check out a calorie calculator that estimates how many calories are burned by different activities.
For instance, I discovered that one hour of cycling at 12-14 mph burns 594 calories, while one hour of blogging (writing) burns 72 calories. ... more»
If you bicycle or walk around Bellevue, you only have about two weeks to have your voice heard in the Walk & Roll 2007 Pedestrian-Bike Plan.
An online survey is available at the city of Bellevue website through April 10. I filled it out recently and it only takes a few minutes.
It's basically a multiple choice survey -- "always," "sometimes," "never" -- to determine what bicycle facilities you use or would use if available. It also has space for respondents to fill in their major concerns or specific needs for bicycing in the city; this can be more time-consuming but it's necessary to put the officials on notice. ... more»
Family members of a bicyclist who was struck and killed by a legally blind motorist in central Pennsylvania are livid that prosecutors are only seeking home confinement for the driver.
The CentreDaily reports that the Boalsburg man had filed medical disability forms beginning in the mid 1980s stating he was legally blind. He pleaded guilty this week to homicide by vehicle.
The victim's daughter says she thinks the prosecutor is taking the easy way out.... more»
"In my view, the industry's greatest opportunity is to create a bicycle friendly world."
That was Trek president John Burke's message to industry leaders at the bicycle trade show in Taiwan last weekend.
Burke says that people are beginning to figure out that the bicycle is the simple solution to many of the world's greatest problems -- air pollution, obesity, urbanization and traffic congestion.
Bike Biz editor Carlton Reid shot a video of Burke's talk before the bike industry's so-called A-team meeting in Taipei last weekend. It's 23 minutes on YouTube worth watching to boost your bike advocacy juices. ... more»
Proper bicycling technique is all about spinning. There's also a lot of spin in the roll out of bicycles that use Shimano's Coasting concept.
Trek, Raleigh and Giant all have bicycle models based on the new Coasting prototype, a design to make bicycling more friendly for the 161 million Americans out there who don't already ride a bike.
US-based Trek is leading the charge with its new Lime bike. A couple of weeks ago it gave away Lime bikes to the entire Friday audience of the Ellen Degeneres show and launched a Lime blog, where it announces, among other things, celebrities who ride a Lime (Tom Hanks) ... more»
LeBron James, the king of the basketball court in Cleveland, has acquired an undisclosed share of privately held Cannondale Bicycle.
James uses Cannondale bicycles for his annual charity bike ride for kids and single moms in Akron. In addition, he cross-trains on a custom-made Cannondale Caffeine 29er frame bike.
The 22-year-old All-Star for the Cleveland Cavaliers explained: "Biking is an extremely important part of my training routine, and I like to invest in what I know." ... more»
He's probably making a point about the marketing of Armstrong rather than his actual successes in beating cancer and winning 7 Tours de France. Good way to get attention, though.
Travellers preparing for bicycle tours of Europe are discovering that the airlines are jacking up the prices to carry bikes.
The International Bicycle Fund reports that, beginning in 2007, most airlines began charging for bicycles carried on trans-Atlantic flights to the tune of $80 to $160 each way. Before this year, ibike reported that airlines generally allowed bicycles to fly free, in lieu of a piece of baggage.
Why is this happening? Ibike suggests collusion among the airlines to pump up earnings. ... more»
Lance Armstrong is taking a 100-member strong bicycling team with him to this year's Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI) and he's looking for volunteers.
There are about 40 slots still open for cyclists who raise a minimum $1,000 for the Lance Armstrong Foundation and who register no later than midnight (Central Time) on Tuesday, March 27. Go to the LiveStrong RAGBRAI website for details.
The 7-time Tour de France winner showed up with a small cadre of cyclists to last year's bike ride across Iowa (photo) for a just a couple of days, and pledged to return this year for the entire week-long ride. ... more»
Have you ever been out on one of those perfect bike rides when everything seemed right and you kept pedaling and pedaling and suddenly discovered you were either way far from home or just plain lost?
Then you can identify with Laurie, the heroine in the French Canadian movie "2 Seconds."
Laurie is an accomplished downhill racer who loses her sponsor after spending too much time (hmmm, about 2 seconds) behind the starting gate when it opens. Fired, she returns to Montreal to live in her brother's apartment and get a job as a bike messenger. ... more»
Too often, motorists are sentenced to probation when they're judged guilty in bicycle fatality cases. What happens to them?
In two cases reported this week in Indiana and New York, the drivers in two hit-and-run bicyclist deaths are being dragged back into court for violating terms of their probation.
After being too lenient the first time around, maybe the judges can dole out some meaningful justice in these cases given a second chance. ... more»
A Salt Lake City bicycle concern has closed one of its locations that was proclaimed as the oldest bike shop in the western United States.
Guthrie Bicycle closed its downtown location at East 200th South in January. Housed in a three-story building erected in 1890, a sign in the window said Guthrie's was opened in 1904.
Kiril Kundurazieff's Cycling Dude blog lists old bike shops, and the shop closure in Salt Lake City would make Jones Bicycles (established 1910) in Long Beach, California, the oldest in the West. ... more»
I was scanning the "bikes for sale" ads on Craigslist when I ran across this item:
"Boy's bike wanted -- please read -- it's also missing"
It turns out a boy in the Hillside area near Fort Lewis, south of Tacoma, Washington, had his bicycle, left, stolen over the weekend. One of his parents placed an ad on Craigslist, saying that the boy was willing to trade his Yu-Gi-Oh! card collection for a replacement bike.
If you have kids, especially boys, you can probably appreciate how much they treasure game cards like Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokemon. To be willing to trade them for a bike is a big sacrifice. This kid must be a bike fanatic in the making. ... more»
There's going to be another French-speaking bicycle race this summer, and it's happening in North America.
The Montreal-Boston Cycling Tour runs from Aug. 5 to 12, beginning with four stages in Quebec, followed by one stage in Vermont, two stages in New Hampshire and the final stage in Massachusetts for the finish in Boston.
This makes four stage races in the US and Canada this summer that are sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale, which means the top professional teams can send riders to compete. ... more»
At first I wasn't going to write about the dog-powered scooter that inventor Mark Schuette e-mailed me about. Technically, it ain't a bicycle.
Schuette's contraption does have two wheels, but the similarity to a bicycle pretty much ends there. The scooter is powered by a dog, the rider doesn't get a whole lot of exercise except for balancing and steering.
But as I read through the Dog-Powered Scooter website, I started seeing some advantages for bicyclists, especially those who take to multi-use bicycle paths where people like to walk or run their dogs. ... more»
The federal government is asking states to return a record $3.47 billion in transportation funding, and two groups that advocate for bicycles and trails want to make sure that funding for bike facilities aren't hit the hardest.
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (they've assisted with 13,000 miles of rail-to-trail projects) and Thunderhead Alliance (bicycle and pedestrian advocacy groups) sent out alerts regarding the federal rescission order from the US Department of Transportation.
States can choose what programs they want to cut, the groups warn, and as they often protect their highway programs, they cut from funds that support bicycling and pedestrian projects. ... more»
Tyler Hamilton, left, officially returns to pro cycling in the US next month as his Italy-based Tinkoff team is among the 15 that will compete in the week-long Tour de Georgia.
Discovery Channel's George Hincapie also is expected to have recovered from his broken wrist and be back in the saddle in time for the 667-mile Tour, scheduled for April 16-22.
The Tour de Georgia team list, as reported in the Rome (GA) Tribune, includes five ProTour teams (CSC, Discovery, Prodir-Saunier, QuickStep, and Predictor-Lotto), as well as four UCI Professional Continental teams and five UCI Continental (USA) teams. ... more»
A story out of India this weekend about people who haul coal by bicycle struck me for two reasons: 1) it's about bikes, and more importantly, 2) it shows the risks people will take to scratch out a living.
The reporter interviewed coal carriers in the Jharkhand area of eastern India, where abandoned coal mines still cough up enough fuel for locals to illegally mine and transport to larger cities for sale on the black market.
It's a dangerous business. The bicyclists haul 1.5 quintal (330 pounds) of coal by bicycle on narrow roads out of the hills 30 or 40 miles to their destination. They'll make a couple of trips a week, earning less than $70 a month for their efforts. ... more»
Spain's Alberto Contador staged a last-ditch attack on the final mountain of the Paris-Nice bicycle race Sunday to win the 8-day Race to the Sun.
The Col d'Eze was the perfect place for the 24-year-old Contador to make his bid to win the race. He won Thursday's mountaintop finish in Mende to put himself within 6 seconds of the overall race leader Davide Rebellin.
Rebellin, a Gerolsteiner rider from Italy, fought hard to catch up to Contador, but finished about 22 seconds behind to fall to second place overall. Contador's Discovery Channel teammates kept the pressure on Rebellin and the Gerolsteiner team to give Contador a chance at the win. ... more»
What is it like to ride your bike to the finish line at the Tour de Georgia, or tackle one of the big category climbs? You can find out by signing up for a couple of recreational rides.
The first is the BriarRose Grand Peloton, a fund-raiser that lets participants bicycle the finishing 25 miles of the 6th stage route to Stone Mountain the morning of the actual race.
The other is the Brasstown Bald-Buster Century 2007, which is a 100-mile bike ride with 14,000 feet of elevation gain that takes place April 28, about a week after the peloton battles up the mountain during the Tour. ... more»
Going into the last of nine climbs of the stage, the Discovery Channel pro cycling team -- they'd already taken stages on Thursday and Friday -- had Levi Leipheimer and Tom Danielson in a lead breakaway at the Paris-Nice bicycle race.
But they were unable to muster a stage victory or help teammate Alberto Contador make up 6 seconds to take the overall lead in the week-long race that ends Sunday.
A hard charging Spaniard, Luis León Sánchez of Caisse d'Epargne won the 120-mile stage in Cannes and Italian Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner) finished in a trailing group with Contador to maintain his General Classification lead .... more»
Discovery Channel cyclist Yaroslav Popovych won Friday's stage of the Paris-Nice bicycle race by attacking the survivors of a breakaway on the final climb of the day.
The 27-year-old Urkainian, once named the best young rider at the Tour de France, scored the second victory in as many days for Discovery. However, he gained only 14 seconds in the overall standings, which remained pretty much unchanged.
Only two hilly stages remain in the week-long Race to the Sun, which ends Sunday, and Discovery must be considering the chances of two cyclists -- Alberto Contador and Levi Leipheimer -- who sit near the top of the standings ... more»
Bicycle touring and its economic impact showed up on congressional radar screens this week during the 2007 National Bike Summit in Washington DC.
Slightly more than one-quarter (27%) of the US population participates in bicycling, contributing $132 billion to the US economy, according to a recent study by the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA).
BikePortland blogger Jonathan Maus, who provided excellent coverage of the 2007 National Bike Summit, reported that four representatives of bicycling and outdoor groups updated two members of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit on bicycle tourism and impacts on the economy ... more»
Discovery Channel cyclist Alberto Contador won a mad-scramble uphill finish for Stage 4 of Paris-Nice bike race in Mende on Thursday, as second-place finisher Davide Rebellin of Italy took the overall leader's jersey.
The 104-mile stage from Maurs to Mende -- the first hilly stage of the tour -- shook up the general classification, which doesn't include Tour of California winner Levi Leipheimer or any other Americans in the top 10.
The Discovery team's efforts to chase down a three-man breakaway put Spanish teammate Contador in a position to attack on the 10% gradient in the final 2 miles, bettering his overall standing from 33rd at the beginning of the day to 2nd place overall after the finish .... more»
This won't be the year that the lights go out on the Tour de Georgia, although the seven-day bicycle race is still short of cash and without a marquee corporate sponsor.
Organizers of the April 16-22 bike race, entering its fifth year, announced Wednesday that the 667-mile race will go ahead as planned and will depend on funding from several smaller entities to help make ends meet.
As the Georgia Ford Dealers Association dropped out as the title sponsor after last year's race, race chairman Craig Lesser said last month that the race was $800,000 short and may be cancelled or scaled down if the money weren't raised ... more»
An admittedly obese Pennsylvania woman and her husband are undergoing an extreme weight reduction program one pedalstroke at a time.
The couple are about 1,000 miles into their planned counterclockwise 16,000-mile bicycle tour around the United States. So far, they've lost a combined 130 pounds.
Morton and Priscilla Houliston are getting a lot of attention as they make their way up the East Coast from Key West. Their blog at LittleChanges.com reports numerous interviews with TV stations, which sometimes results in donations of food or a place to spend the night. They've inspired people to start exercising again ... more»
Police in White Plains, New York, found an easy way to arrest bike thieves -- Set out an unlocked $500 bicycle at a city intersection and just stand back and wait.
And the police didn't have to wait long, as they arrested three suspects in an hour. Maybe a sting like this could work in other cities where cops don't have time to investigate bicycle thefts; they could just stand there and watch them happen.
Ten minutes after setting up the sting, a 23-year-old came along, walked off with the bike, and passed it off to an 18-year-old. ... more»
Want to take a bike ride around the Texas ranch of a US president whose term got bogged down in an unpopular war?
Don't bother heading to Crawford to ride at W's ranch unless you're Lance Armstrong. I'm talking about the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, about an hour's drive from Austin.
Luci Johnson, the youngest daughter of former president Lyndon Baines Johnson, led two bike tours of the ranch and surrounding areas last weekend that each drew about 75 people. The ride -- about nine miles -- started at the LBJ State Park and Historic Site and crossed over to the LBJ Ranch National Historic Park. more»
The attention of pro cycling fans returns to France this week for the 8-day Paris-Nice bicycle race.
Great Britain's David Millar took the short prologue on Sunday on the outskirts of Paris and retains his overall slim lead at the end of Monday's Stage 1.
Sitting back in 6th place, but only 3 seconds behind, is Discovery Channel cyclist Levi Leipheimer, the American who won last month's Tour of California ... more»
Now we've changed to Daylight Savings Time two weeks early. We're back to dark mornings again, although we do get another hour of daylight in the evening.
Tufts University lecturer Michael Downing has said it's not about energy conservation, it's about getting Americans to spend more money shopping. The author of "Spring Forward: the Annual Madness of Daylight Savings Time" says the golf industry predicted a $400 million annual boost in green fees and sales the last time DST was extended.
Haven't I read that bicycling is the new golf? It might follow that what's good for golf is good for cycling. ... more»
So what's all this yelling going on over at one corner of the cavernous seaplane hangar that houses the 2007 Seattle International Bicycle Expo?
Two guys are competing in a virtual track sprint (Goldsprints) and an emcee is urging a small crowd to cheer them on.
Elsewhere, a former pro cyclist is talking about the Tour de France to a standing-room-only gathering. In between more than 150 exhibitors are displaying and talking up whatever bicycle related stuff they're offering and bargain-hunters are searching clothing racks and boxes for shorts, jerseys, socks, helmets, you name it. Man, it's noisy in here ... more»
The place to learn some inside scoop about the Tour de France on Saturday was inside the noisy former seaplane hangar that hosted the 2007 Group Health Seattle International Bicycle Expo.
Cycling commentator and former pro Frankie Andreu (left) -- himself a veteran on nine Tour pelotons -- said the 2006 Tour de France was one of the "most amazing" he'd ever seen, because he never knew what was going to happen next.
That uncertainty continues to this day, as Andreu says he can't guess what the future holds for Tour winner Floyd Landis, who prepares to answer doping charges at an administrative hearing in May.
Andreu noted that Landis and his defense team have pointed to "a lot of inaccuracies" at the French lab that analyzed the urine samples that led to the doping accusations. But, "we've only heard from one side," he said. He wants to wait to hear from the other side -- the anti-doping agency and its witnesses -- before he decides about the case. ... more»
The 2,058-mile Underground Railroad Bicycle Route is finished and ready for action.
Actually, the route has been there since before the Civil War, when escaped slaves from the Deep South followed the Tombigbee to the Ohio River and beyond to freedom in Canada.
It's just now that the Adventure Cycling Association has completed more than three years of research and planning to chart that route along bike friendly, low-traffic roads from Mobile, Alabama, to Owen Sound, Ontario.
The recent completion of the last three sections of the five-section route has caused a minor buzz in the press, and at least one community along the route is preparing to welcome touring bicyclists with open arms (i.e. free camping in parks).... more»
I've seen a couple of odd designs for folding bicycles lately at Bicycle Design, left, and Cyclelicious, right, leading me to wonder who would buy and ride one of these bikes.
Then I saw this item that the Santa Cruz transportation system is offering up to $250 rebates to commuters using folding bikes.
Now there's transit system with its head screwed on straight -- using folding bikes as part of an integrated approach to increasing bus ridership and decreasing traffic and air pollution. ... more»
Rain is in the forecast this weekend, so heading on over to the old Magnuson Park showsite won't be a bad idea. You can even ride your bike over there, as there's plenty of bike parking right outside. The show runs 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Who's showing up this year? Speakers at the main stage this year incude former pro cyclist and OLN commentator Frankie Andreu, bicycle touring authors Willie Weir and Joe (Metal Cowboy) Kurmaskie, and the Bob Mionske, the lawyer who writes Legally Speaking at VeloNews. ... more»
One day soon, bicyclists in Livonia will be able to ride on the public streets, even though sidewalks and bike paths might be nearby.
Apparently the Michigan city, located just east of Detroit, has had a law on the books since the early 1980s that made it a misdemeanor to ride a bike on the roadway if there were trails or sidewalks adjacent.
Bicycling advocates in Michigan decided it's long past time to get rid of that bad law and bring the city up-to-date. ... more»
Pan-American bicycle tourist Dominic Gill could put a classified ad in newspapers throughout the Americas:
Wanted: Tandem pilot seeks stoker. Full or part-time. Must be willing to travel.
Gill is an Englishman in the midst of a 20,000-mile journey from Alaska to the tip of South America on a tandem. Cycling the length of North and South America in search of company, Gill says, "What better way to get to know the locals than offering them a seat on your bike." ... more»
It took a New Jersey jury about 15 minutes to decide that an 11-year-old girl on rollerblades was not at fault for causing a doctor to crash his bicycle.
You may have heard of the ridiculous lawsuit filed by Dr. Alexander Dlugi, who sued his neighbor because she turned into his path after he rang his bicycle bell and yelled "Watch Out" as he cycled past.
Dlugi, who suffered a broken collarbone, claimed his practice lost money because of his injuries and he sued. His attorney said: "It may seem like an odd thing. But people are responsible for their actions."
That may be the case, but the seven-person jury didn't agree that the girl -- now 15 -- was responsible for the accident. ... more»
Here's good news for us in the Pacific Northwest. The North American Handmade Bicycle Show is heading to Portland in 2008.
The show, which just wrapped up its three-day stand San Jose on Sunday, is a celebration of the best frame designers and builders in the world. Most of the 70 handmade frame makers came from the US and Canada this year.
The 2008 show, scheduled for March 7-10 at the Oregon Convention Center, will be another relocation for the annual event, conceived by Don Walker, a framebuilder himself. It was held in Houston in 2005, then moved to the Bay Area for the past two years ... more»
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 ... more»
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..... more»
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 ... more»
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 more»
Here's a way to get smashed while you're cycling and walk away unscathed.
Have you ever been out on one of those perfect bike rides when everything seemed right and you kept pedaling and pedaling and suddenly discovered you were either way far from home or just plain lost?
Too often, motorists are sentenced to probation when they're judged guilty in bicycle fatality cases. What happens to them?
I was scanning the "bikes for sale" ads on Craigslist when I ran across this item:
There's going to be another French-speaking bicycle race this summer, and it's happening in North America.
At first I wasn't going to write about the dog-powered scooter that inventor Mark Schuette e-mailed me about. Technically, it ain't a bicycle.
Tyler Hamilton, left, officially returns to pro cycling in the US next month as his Italy-based Tinkoff team is among the 15 that will compete in the week-long Tour de Georgia.
What is it like to ride your bike to the finish line at the Tour de Georgia, or tackle one of the big category climbs? You can find out by signing up for a couple of recreational rides.
Bicycle touring and its economic impact showed up on congressional radar screens this week during the 2007 National Bike Summit in Washington DC.
This won't be the year that the lights go out on the 
So what's all this yelling going on over at one corner of the cavernous seaplane hangar that houses the 2007 Seattle International Bicycle Expo?
The place to learn some inside scoop about the Tour de France on Saturday was inside the noisy former seaplane hangar that hosted the 2007 Group Health Seattle International Bicycle Expo.
The 2,058-mile Underground Railroad Bicycle Route is finished and ready for action.
Pan-American bicycle tourist Dominic Gill could put a classified ad in newspapers throughout the Americas:
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.
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.
Mikhail Davenport sets out this weekend to cycle 950 miles across Texas in 25 days.
