Reporting on the death of a Houston area cyclist, Chronicle writer Steve Sievert's Cycling Notebook column touched on some points about safe bicycle riding that deserve repeating.
“These steps can go a long way toward providing an extra measure of safety in a hostile cycling environment,” he writes.
Topping the list is to wear a helmet. We all know that. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/09/preparing-for-a-safe-bike-ride/
The Tour de France has the yellow jersey; the Giro d'Italia has the pink. The overall leading cyclist of the inaugural Amgen Tour of California will wear dark gold.
Voler Team Apparel is the official cycling jersey sponsor for the Tour, which begins Feb. 19 for an 8-day, 600-mile stage race around the golden state. The Grover Beach, California-based company (Voler is pronounced vo-LAY) is providing the jerseys in five competitions.
The five jersey styles …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/08/the-tour-of-california-bike-races-five-leaders-jerseys-released/
Available at Velo Team Apparel.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/08/leaders-jersey-for-tour-of-california/
An outdoor trip and adventure planning website has named the Top Trails for 2005. The list of 100 includes five bike routes, although the American River Bike Path (left) in California is mentioned twice — once for mountain bikes and once for road bikes.
The company, Trails.com, calls the list the closest thing to a Nielsen's rating system for trail popularity in the …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/07/list-of-top-100-trails-in-the-us-includes-five-bike-routes/
Photo by lindalu2 at flickr.com
A section of the 32-mile American River Bike Path between Sacramento and Folsom Lake.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/07/american-river-bike-path-in-sacramento/
Follows American River through Sacramento to Folsom Lake; distance of 32 miles. For more detail, see 11X17 .pdf file at Sacramento Area Bike Trails.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/07/map-of-american-river-bike-path/
What's a bike path cost these days? The so-called Broida Expressway at UC-Santa Barbara cost $583 per foot.
The 900-foot, 12-foot-wide, bicycle path was completed at a cost of $525,000 recently to link the east and west sides of the campus, according to the UC Santa Barbara student newspaper, the Daily Nexus.
The cost was covered by a $3 per student …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/06/new-bike-path-at-santa-barbara-necessary-but-costly/
Yikes! Bicycling without a helmet? That's not safe. Don't ever do this, even on a dedicated bicycle path, that pavement is very hard. Here, a coed pedals at UC-Santa Barbara.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/06/cycling-the-new-uc-santa-barbara-bike-path/
It's no shock that people feel very strongly about Lance Armstrong — as an elite cyclist, a cancer survivor, a motivator, a celebrity, a father, a Texan.
News of his breakup with fiance Sheryl Crow brought out a flood of reaction from columnists and bloggers. Here are a few quotes from the weekend that I found particularly mean, weird or funny:
“Lance Armstrong has unsurprisingly split from the jaundiced star girlfriend. It was sad, originally, that he would choose
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/06/bicycle-quotes-the-lance-armstrong-sheryl-crow-split/
A state court judge sentenced the wife of a Utah ski resort owner to six months home confinement with an ankle monitor and probation in the 2004 death of cyclist Josie Johnson, left, as she rode at the edge of a winding canyon road.
A jury in December convicted Elizabeth DeSeelhorst, 67, of negligent homicide in the death of Johnson, 25, a graduate …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/02/06/utah-woman-confined-to-home-for-6-months-in-death-of-bicyclist/
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