2006 archive

Holy Hincapie! George cycling in Oregon this weekend

If Lance Armstrong could ride RAGBRAI, could George Hincapie be far behind?

Hincapie won't be riding across Iowa, but he will be cycling in Oregon this weekend at the Oregon Wine Country MS 150 Bike Tour. …

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All Floyd Landis, all the time

While we all sit around waiting for the French lab to test “B” sample from the Tour de France, here's what's happening on the Floyd Landis front.

Nothing. But that doesn't stop the flow of information. Here's a news item, a blog about organic chemistry, the reliability of lab tests, Bob Roll asking questions and a video from the Steven Colbert Report:

Landis has hired Howard Jacobs of Los Angeles as his attorney. Jacobs specializes in athlete-doping cases and was Tyler Hamilton's attorney. …

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Carbon fiber dealers target bike makers for higher prices

You probably already knew that good times in the aerospace industry has caused a shortage of carbon fiber. Given the ol' law of supply and demand, that means the price of carbon fiber bikes has gone up.

But did you know that the carbon fiber makers are slammin' the bicycle makers in deference to aerospace giants? This isn't a level playing field. …

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Tour de Napa

Tour de Napa poster.

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Lance Armstrong cycling with the masses

This is one of the best snapshots I've seen from Lance Armstrong's visit to RAGBRAI last week.

It's posted over at 2 Wheel Commute, and the blogger has quite a story to go with the picture.

I don't want to repeat it all here, but let's just say it involves four Bloody Marys. Nice …

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Lance Armstrong on RAGBRAI

Here's a snapshot of Lance Armstrong taken during his visit to RAGBRAI 2006, posted at 2 Wheel Commute.

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Logo for California bike ride

Cool logo for Santa Cruz Mountains Challenge 2006

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More bad news for Floyd Landis

Synthetic testosterone was detected in the Floyd Landis urine sample taken after Stage 17 at the Tour de France, an unidentified worker in the Union Cycliste International's anti-doping department told the New York Times.

If true — none of this is official, the latest comes from an unidentified source — it would fly in the face of the Tour de France winner's contention that the high ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone was a natural condition of his physiology. …

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Cycling across the US with terminal cancer

People with serious afflications occasionally bicycle across the US to show that their conditions can be overcome. Few, if any, have biked cross-country with terminal cancer.

But that's what the 42-year-old UK resident Jane Tomlinson is doing. Diagnosed with incurable metastatic breast cancer in 2000, Tomlinson has put the pain and exhaustion behind her and reached the halfway point of her trans-America bike tour. …

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Jane Tomlinson

Jane Tomlinson, a 42-year-old UK resident, is bicycling across the US. She's been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Photo from husband's blog on BBC.

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