George Hincapie became the first American ever to finish on the podium in the classic Paris-Roubaix bicycle race on Sunday, beaten at the line by Belgian Tom Boonen.
Hincapie, The Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team's favorite to win the race, raced at the head of the 3-man lead group as they entered the Roubaix velodrome. Boonen, fresh off a win at the Tour of Flanders last weekend, attacked with a half-lap …
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The school year started Friday for teacher Joe Bowen as the 62-year-old Kentuckian began his cross-country bicycle tour. He's recreating a 14,000-mile bicycle tour he took in 1967 from Lompoc, California, to his home in Eastern Kentucky. Along the way, he's teaching kids about America.
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Eastern Kentucky bicyclist is riding from Lompoc to Eastern Kentucky by a 14,000-mile route. Along the way he'll teach students back home about America.
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This is the staff recommendation for the West Lake Sammamish Parkway improvements. Northbound and southbound bicyclists and pedestrians would all use the 8 to 10-foot multi-use trail on the west side of the road. (Imagine two cyclists — not shown — arriving from the north and south at the point where the two pedestrians are …
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Here is the letter detailing Redmond's objections to Bellevue's use of a multi-use trail instead of bike lanes in improvements to West Lake Sammamish Parkway:
“Redmond does not agree that the alternative currently identified as Bellevue's staff preference should be the option selected for construction …”
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That plan to “improve” the dangerous stretch of West Lake Sammamish Parkway without adding dedicated bike lanes is scheduled for a vote by the Bellevue City Council on Monday night.
The staff recommendations are opposed by the Cascade Bicycle Club, the Friends of Lake Sammamish, and Bellevue's own Pedestrian and Bicycle Citizens Advisory Group (CAG), and the City of Redmond.
The Cascade Bicycle Club is urging …
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When my friends and I learned to ride bikes, our parents told us to ride against the traffic. Today, we know that wrong-way cycling is terribly unsafe, don't we? Wrong-way cycling actually makes it harder for motorists to see the bicyclists. And it's motorists seeing bicyclists that we should be most concerned about.
The issue of “wrong-way” cycling comes to the Bellevue (WA) City Council on Monday night when it considers the staff recommended plan to make improvements to West Lake Sammamish Parkway.
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It looks like Tucson police are closing in on a major bicycle theft ring.
Police raided a house recently and seized 350 stolen bikes, according to the Tucson Citizen. No one has put an estimate on the haul, although just six bicycles identified by police through stolen bike reports were valued at $14,000.
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Somewhere in Eastern Washington, 2002
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Six-time Tour de France bicycle champions who make $15 million a year from endorsements must watch what they say.
For instance, when Lance Armstrong told the French press a couple of weeks ago that Paris deserved to host the 2012 …
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