February 2007 archive

Guy Spear

North Carolinian Guy Spear returned to cycling after he was struck by a car on a country road. The prosthesis pictured is one he helped design and build. Winston Salem Journal

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Landis promises not to bike race in France this year

Floyd Landis promised French anti-doping authorities on Thursday that he won't race in the upcoming Tour de France, or any French bike race, this year.

In return, the French anti-doping agency said it would postpone its case against Landis until after the US Anti-Doping Agency rules on the charges.

This should be a surprise to no one. Here it is February. Landis has no team, he's running around the country trying to raise money for his defense, he's still trying to get back into shape after hip surgery last fall, and he has already been quoted that he's “pretty much” ruled out cycling for this season. I'd say no 2007 Tour de France for Landis was a foregone conclusion. …

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Ohhh, maybe I could have won this touring bike

If only I had signed up, maybe I could have been the winner of this Casual Agent touring bike from Vicious Cycles in New Paltz, New York.

Instead, the Adventure Cycling Association drew the name of Chuck Bailey, a longtime member and resident of Friday Harbor, up in the San Juan Islands in Washington state.

Well, you couldn't find a more deserving person, I guess. Chuck has been bicycle touring since the '80s …

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Casual Agent touring bike from Vicious Cycles

Vicious Cycles makes bike in New Paltz, New York.

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Saul Raisin back in saddle at the Tour of California

The inspiring young Credit Agricole cyclist who crashed and fell into a coma during a race in Europe last year will be riding, but not competing on, the route of the Amgen Tour of California this year.

Doctors initially didn't hold much hope for Saul Raisin, but the 25-year-old from Dalton, Georgia, enthusiastically attacked his rehabilitation regimen and is back on the bike.

In addition riding the Tour of California to improve his conditioning for his re-entry into pro cycling later this year, Raisin will be promoting his Raisin Hope Charity Ride coming up March 31 in his hometown. …

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A fog shrouds details in South Carolina bike fatality

No charges have been filed in the bicycling death of Rachel Giblin, but a story in Wednesday's Charlotte Observer raises some interesting questions — is this a case of unsafe bicycling or unsafe driving?

Rachel, 15, and her brother, Tommy, were riding a tandem bicycle in a paceline with their parents in September's Breakaway to the Beach MS 150 charity bike ride. The bike went down, Rachel was run over by a passing trailer pulled by a pickup truck, and she died soon afterward at the hospital.

Observer reporter Kirsten Valle examined the key question in the case — what made the bike fall — in a story headlined “Family pushed S.C. on cyclist's fatal spill.” …

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Rachel Giblin

15-year-old who died Sept. 16 in MS 150 bike ride fatality.

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Missouri interstate highway project spells end to bike routes

Do we need another example of a car culture and highway planners run amok? Yes? Jack Painter provides us with one.

Jack is a bicyclist from the St. Louis area who wrote to tell about what happening to his community while the Missouri Department of Transportation rebuilds I-64/US40.

As covered recently in Missouri Bicycle News (“St. Louis area freeway project may lead to serious problems on key bicycles routes”), the MoDOT is shunting traffic onto adjacent roads while it closes the interstate to perform the rebuild.

Local officials plan to repaint narrower lanes on the side roads to handle more traffic, thereby ruining their use as routes for commuting and recreational cyclists …

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I-64

St. Louis to Norfolk.

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Tyler Hamilton in first pro cycling race after suspension

American cyclist Tyler Hamilton competed in his first professional bicycling race on Tuesday since being accused of blood doping in the fall of 2004 during the Vuelta a Espana.

Hamilton rode in the one-day French season opener, the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise, as leader of the Russian Tinkoff Credit Systems cycling team. Teammate Mikhail Ignatiev finished second; Hamilton finished out of the top 15.

Hamilton lost his final appeal of the blood doping case last year …

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