For the first time this decade, bike racing handicappers aren't pondering whether a Tour de France route helps or hurts Lance Armstrong.
The organizers of the Tour de France issued the 2006 route on Thursday, and everyone knows that seven-time Tour winner won't be among the racers.
The 2006 Tour de France travels 2,232 miles in a counter-clockwise route …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/27/bike-route-for-2006-tour-de-france/
More route information available at Le Tour website.
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The Picasso Two Bike Folding Rack is being recalled by the Delta Cycle Corp. in cooperation with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The wall rack with a collapsible shelf isn't sold with sufficient hardware to hold its weight to the wall, causing it to fall. The CPSC reports one incident of a rack falling, but no injuries. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/26/rack-recalled-hang-that-bicycle-somewhere-else/
Delta Cycle fold-out wall rack recalled in cooperation with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. See press release.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/26/delta-cycle-corp-wall-rack-recalled/
A memorial bike ride is planned next month for Tom Cuthbertson, the guy who took a lot of us nonmechanical types by the hand and walked us through basic bicycle maintenance and repair.
He actually didn't stand there and help, offering advice as he looked over our shoulders. He patiently helped us from the pages of his wonderful repair manual, “Anybody's Bike Book.” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/25/memorial-bike-ride-planned-for-tom-cuthbertson/
My copy of Tom Cuthbertson's bicycle repair manual has seen lots of mileage.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/25/my-well-worn-copy-of-anybodys-bike-book/
I really don't want to turn this blog into a police blotter, but this story strikes close to home, in more ways that one.
Police in Everett, Washington, are looking for the driver of a car that struck and killed a cyclist, then drove away, Monday night. (UPDATE: He surrendered to police the next day.) Witnesses told police that the bicyclist was riding on a “narrow pedestrian pathway” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/25/cyclist-dies-in-hit-and-run-in-everett/
Flickr photo be e-liz
Cyclists fill the streets in critical mass in New York City in June 2005.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/25/new-york-city-critical-mass/
Flickr photo by likenooneswatching
Cyclists take to the streets in Atlanta.
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Flickr photo by likenooneswatching
Critical mass ride in Atlanta.
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