2006 archive

Bicycle racing barely mentioned in Sports Emmy awards

Wasn't Lance Armstrong's seventh straight Tour de France bike race championship a big deal last summer? I remember lots of non-bicyclists following it on TV and in the newspaper, and OLN scoring its highest ratings ever during the event.
In spite of that, competitive cycling was mostly ignored for nominations in the Sports Emmy Awards. The 27th annual awards event for TV sports is scheduled May 1. …

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Avoiding $350 bike repair with a 2nd opinion and can of WD-40

I often joke about being able to fix anything with a roll of duct tape, a tube of Crazy Glu or a can of WD-40. But I didn't even think of those when my right STI shifter on my bicycle stopped working.

My LeMond Tourmalet bicycle is six years old, and I always thought one of its coolest features were the STI shifters — brakes and gear shifters all in one. Apparently riding in these wet, cold Northwest winters took its toll on these Shimano components, because a couple of weeks ago the right one stopped shifting. …

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More than a little dab will do ya

Applying WD-40 cleaner to STI shifter.

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Another brand of wine, another bicycle label

If it's true that one is an accident, two is a trend, and three is a movement, then the appearance of bicycles on wine bottle labels has become a movement as far as I'm concerned.

I wrote about labels on two wines yesterday — Cycles Gladiator and Red Bicyclette. Then DT from the Fat Boy Deluxe Weblog left a comment about a third, Hill of Content.

I'm always impressed by the breadth of experience of people who contact me. …

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League of American Bicyclists helps cyclists find “it”

The League of American Bicyclists has updated its website, and one of the coolest features is a search page called FindIt.

Member and nonmember cyclists can go to this page to search for local advocacy groups, bicycle clubs, bike shops, instructors and certification seminars, bike education courses, and league rides and events. …

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League of American Bicyclists logo

Bike group logo

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Hill of Content wine with bicycle on label

Yet another wine featuring a bicycle on its label, Hill of Content from Australia.

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Bicycles, nymphs and wines

 I'm not sure about the connection between drinking wine and bicycling, but some marketers of vino apparently want to create one.

Cycles Gladiator from Hahn Estates in California is the newest label sporting a bicycle — and a red-haired nymph. Oh la la!

It joins Red Bicyclette, a French wine that I was surprised to learn comes from none other than mass wine producer E & J Gallo in Modesto, California. …

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Red Bicyclette wine

Red Bicyclette is recent wine produced by EJ Gallo from grapes grown in France.

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Cycles Gladiator wine label

Hahn Estates Winery on California's Central Coast owns the Cycles Gladiator label.

 

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