Where is Lance Armstrong these days?
A year after he was battling an illness that prevented him from competing in the Paris-Nice bike race, Armstrong is on the lecture circuit in Canada doing motivational speeches. Also checking on his attorneys and planning to bike in the Giro d'Italia — for a day…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/08/lance-armstrong-talks-about-the-power-within/
Before you get on that trainer again, check to see whether it's a Performance Travel Trac Trainer. If it is, check closer; it might have been recalled.
Chapel Hill, NC-based Performance Inc. is recalling about 10,200 Travel Trac Trainers after receiving two reports of a blocking mechanism that can break, causing the bicycle to disengage from the stand and a fall to occur. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/07/bicycle-trainers-recalled-by-performance-and-nashbar/
Performance and Consumer Product Safety Commission voluntary recall of 10,400 trainers.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/07/travel-trac-trainer-recalled/
Belgian cyclist Tom Boonen has repeated Monday's performance, and last year's, by winning back-to-back stages in the Paris-Nice bicycle race.
Boonen's sprint win over Australian Allan Davis, again, on Tuesday's 124-mile stage keeps him 17 seconds ahead of 2nd place US racer Bobby Julich (Team CSC). The 35-year-old Julich won Sunday's prologue and took the overall win in 2005. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/07/belgiums-boonen-wins-again-in-paris-nice-usas-bobby-julich-in-2nd/
If you're ever in Eastern Washington and happen to find yourself with a bike and some free time, I'd suggest checking out the Centennial Trail.
The route is a 37-mile paved bike path that begins at the Idaho border, crosses mostly flat plains, bisects downtown Spokane (at left), and follows the wild Spokane River canyon to Nine-Mile Falls. On the Idaho side, it traverses another 24 miles to Higgens Point, Idaho. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/07/cycling-the-centennial-trail-in-eastern-washington/
US cyclist Bobby Julich gave up the yellow and white leader's jersey to Tom Boonen, who won the Stage 1 sprint in the Paris-Nice bike race Monday.
Team CSC's Julich, who became the first American to ever win the “Race to the Sun” in 2005, had the leader's jersey after cycling to a win in Sunday's prologue.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/06/bobby-julich-drops-paris-nice-lead-to-tom-boonen/
Don't miss out on anymore week-long cross-state cycling tours.
The deadline to register for the Denver Post's Ride the Rockies has already passed. Sorry. And the Tour de Wyoming bike tour isn't taking any more applications.
But there is still time to sign up for RAGBRAI, the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa.…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/05/deadlines-loom-for-cross-state-bicycle-tours/
Does American cyclist Bobby Julich, at 35, want to own the Paris-Nice spring classic bicycle race the same way Lance Armstrong has owned the Tour de France the past 7 years?
Julich, who became the first American to win the legendary week-long “Race to the Sun” in 2005, won Sunday's 3-mile prologue to continue wearing the tour leader's yellow and white jersey. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/05/us-cyclist-bobby-julich-wins-paris-nice-prologue/
Map of Paris-Nice spring classic bicycle race.
From Paris-Nice bike race website
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/05/paris-nice-bike-race-2006-map/
Top 100 bike shops chosen by International Cycle Works
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/04/top-100-bike-shop-logo/
Trail biking Rails to Trails Conservancy
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