2007 archive
The Fort Collins, Colorado-based brewery that makes Fat Tire and other deliciously heady beverages has been voted the Bicycle Friendly Employer of the Year in the Rocky Mountain state.
New Belgium received the Bicycle Colorado “Bicycle Choice Award” at a gala celebration last week .
Among other things, the brewery gives workers free cruiser bikes after their first year and sponsors the Tour de Fat bike celebration in a number of cities. It also promotes bicycle commuting through the Team Wonderbike, which you have to check out if you bike to work or plan to do so. …
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Join the New Belgium Brewery Team Wonderbike contest by agreeing to bike to work at least once per month.
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This year's Giro d'Italia marks its 90th anniversary with a start on the island of Sardenia to honor the 200th birthday anniversary of Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi.
The first of the year's three Grand Tours runs from May 12 through June 3, covering 2,134 miles on its way for the traditional finish in Milan.
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/26/2007-giro-ditalia-map-and-race-highlights/
Yesterday it was supposed to rain in Maryland, but instead it was one of those glorious, sunny spring days where the temperature was in the middle 60s and out on the bike trail you could actually feel the warmth and the coolness in the air all at the same time.
You only get a handful of such days each season in which to ride, so despite whatever else is going on in your life, you owe it to yourself to get out on the bike. I filled up the water bottles and got out the door. This would be my last training ride for the Face of America 2007 ride, which is now only two days away.
Of course I waited until the last minute to start training, but yesterday I just went out for fun ….
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Last week I wrote about the dumpster-diving bicyclist who has turned inexpensive bicycle touring into a science.
Conversely, there's the super-expensive bicycle tour in which corporate executives pay up to $30,000 and more for bike trips staffed with people to cater to their every whim.
One of those outfits is Destination Cycling. Founder Joe Tonon writes about the technological side of his bike tour business in Fortune magazine's Small Business section this month. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/25/amazingly-expensive-bicycle-tours/
A paceline of cyclists in one of Destination Cycling's bike tours.
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The Discovery Channel pro cycling team did great at the Tour de Georgia without Italian cyclist Ivan Basso — 3 stage wins and the overall title. That might be a look of things for the near future.
The team on Wednesday asked Basso not to race pending a hearing into a new doping investigation by the Italian Olympic Committee. That casts an uncertain pall over his season; the Giro d'Italia is coming up in May and the Tour de France is in July.
It's that off-again on-again muddle started with Spain's Operacion Puerto blood doping investigation that broke right before the 2006 Tour de France. …
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Check out Bob Lee's “A Ride for 3 Reasons” blog if you want to follow a cross-country bicycle tour by a thoroughly engaging writer. That's not just me saying that; his blog was named “Cool Site of the Day” by digital goddess Kim Komando.
Lee is a 65-year-old cyclist who is presently working his way up the East Coast on the first leg of a 6,500-mile bike ride to raise funds for three charities — The American Cancer Society, The National Hospice Foundation, and The Les Turner ALS Foundation.
The colon cancer survivor from Barrington, Illinois, is filing almost daily posts with lots of images. He's got a keen eye for the land that he's passing through and doesn't seem reluctant to get off the bike and explore roadside attractions or talk with folks along the route. …
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Bob Lee waves from a ferry in Florida as he sets off on his cross-country bike tour.
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