You might not think that “white-out” would be one of the materials used by technicians at a world class doping investigation lab.
But cyclist Floyd Landis' defense team claims that lab officials in France wrote down urine sample numbers on testing forms that did not match Landis' Tour de France bike race sample number. The mistake was covered over with white-correction fluid, USA Today reports, and Landis' number was written in. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/08/how-sloppy-was-lab-in-floyd-landis-doping-case/
A page from the Floyd Landis PowerPoint presentation showing a lab report with incorrect rider identification number covered in white-out and Landis' number copied over the top.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/08/page-from-floyd-landis-defense/
When Joe Kern turned 80 back in July, he commemorated his birthday with an 80-mile bicycle ride. How did you celebrate your 40th birthday, or 50th for that matter?
Kern lives in Metropolis, Illinois, located not far down river from where the TransAmerican bicycle trail crosses the Ohio at Cave-In-Rock. He belongs to the Carbondale Bicycle Club and often joins such regional bike rides as the Tour de Cape. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/08/80-mile-bike-ride-on-80th-birthday/
Notice how Kern doesn't resort to comfort bike, but uses a racing model with aero handlebars.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/07/joe-kern-80-year-old-cyclist/
No standard 16-week marathon training program for 7-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong as he prepares for the Nov. 5 New York Marathon.
Armstrong is simply running when he can find the time, although he's trying to run every day.
That's a little hard to believe from the cyclist who was so diligent that he used to weigh his food intake when he was training for the Tour de France, but that's what he told the reporter for his hometown newspaper…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/07/how-lance-armstrong-prepares-for-the-nyc-marathon/
Popular Mechanics magazine has given a Breakthrough Award to the Gyrobike, an invention that prevents bicycles without training wheels from tipping over.
Four Dartmouth College students developed the idea of putting a flywheel inside the rim of the front wheel. A drill is used to spin the flywheel, which keeps the bike stable under novice riders. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/06/no-tip-bicycle-without-training-wheels/
Dartmouth College students have developed a device — spinning flywheel — that keeps a bicycle from tipping over. Developed by Hannah Murnen, Augusta Niles, Deborah Sperling and Nathan Sigworth (not pictured).
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/06/gyrobike-wont-tip-over/
What do they say… If it bleeds, it leads?
A publisher is offering a $500 prize for the best pictures of people crashing on bicycles. The winner gets the picture on the cover of a book to be released in May 2007 — “Cycling's Greatest Misadventures.”
The offer comes from Solano Beach, California-based publisher Casagrande Press LLC. It's self-described as a “new literary press founded or promote quality non-fiction and fiction. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/06/gruesome-bicycling-accident-book-in-the-works/
You don't have to pay a corrupt lobbyist like Jack Abramoff to gain funding for bike paths and trails in your area. You simply need to get your mayor or county executive interested in bicycling.
Just look at Seattle, Chicago, and Columbia, Missouri as examples.
For instance, I ran across a story in my local newspaper on Wednesday that said trails are taking a high priority …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/10/05/how-to-get-support-for-bicycle-trails-put-the-pols-on-bikes/
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