I quickly consulted the calendar when I saw the item on the E-Composites website that a bicycle frame-maker was using bamboo. I confirmed it wasn't April Fool's Day.
The southern California high-performance bike frame-maker Calfee Design is using bamboo in one of its designs. The company is owned by Craig Calfee, whose early creations under the Carbonframes brand were used by Greg LeMond …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/19/calfees-new-miracle-bicycle-frame-material-bamboo/
Calfee Design is making a bamboo road bike frame. The frame weighs in at 4 pounds, and reportedly does well at damping road vibration.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/19/calfee-designs-bamboo-bike/
I picked up the story of Helen Roberts when she left Colorado to ride her bicycle to Hurricane Katrina's destruction zone.
A city in her area had adopted the small southern Mississippi River town of Pearlington and she felt compelled to volunteer. She bicycled nearly to Baton Rouge, where she caught a ride to Pearlington.
What's going on in Pearlington? Clayton James …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/18/cyclist-seeks-kitchen-ware-for-hurricane-victims/
No, this isn't the bike path to hell, although it sounds like it.
Here in the Pacific NW, cyclists are accustomed to hearing bike path objections from neighbors who don't like the idea of cyclists pedaling too close to their homes on rail-to-trails (like train locomotives are better?).
In Melbourne, Australia, it's three chemical companies who are fighting the proposed path …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/17/toxic-emissions-spills-and-explosions-threaten-cyclists/
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You probably wouldn't leave either of these bicycles tethered with a cheap lock and cable outside the neighborhood Starbucks.
Bicycles associated with 7-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and 4-time Vuelta a Espana winner Roberto Heras are being auctioned this month to raise money for charity. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/14/two-bikes-that-might-never-leave-the-driveway/
“Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.”
Bob Weir …
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Lance Armstrong bike of choice in Tour de France.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/14/treks-madone-5-9-sl/
The bike he rode to 4th Vuelta a Espana victory.
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The Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team announced its new team lineup for 2006 on Wednesday.
Lance Armstrong obviously is not among the cyclists, but George Hincapie (right), Tom Danielson, Viatcheslav Ekimov, Yaroslav Popovych, Paolo Salvodelli, and others from 16 countries round out the 27-man roster.
Dan Osipow reports for The Paceline (free registration) that team manager Johan Bruyneel plans to …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/13/life-after-lance/
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