The Lance Armstrong Foundation has announced the dates for three LiveStrong bicycle rides in 2007 to benefit cancer research.
The 2007 LiveStrong Challenge bike events are:
Philadelphia — August 25-26
Portland, Oregon — September 29-30
Austin — October 12-14
The Austin ride also includes the annual Ride for the Roses celebration for the top fund-raisers.
On the LiveStrong website, the 7-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor talks about his participation …
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Thomas Stevens might have been the first around-the-world bicyclist beginning in 1884, but he certainly wasn't the last.
The Pattersons, at left in Morocco, took the plunge in 2002 after Pat had turned 62 and Catherine had recovered from a heart attack.
Their nearly four-year bicycle tour took them through 57 countries on 4 continents. They made many friends and covered thousands of scenic miles, but also had to endure a collision with a truck in Portugal and a hold-up at gunpoint in Peru … It's all at their website, WorldRiders2. …
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Around the world tour by Pat and Cat Patterson at WorldRiders2. In the camel market.
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A 49-year-old New York state man has been indicted on second degree murder counts in two slayings associated with the bike path rapist case.
Buffalo police arrested Altemio Sanchez last week after receiving a tip and DNA samples from a glass he used in a restaurant.
The case gets its name from the series of 11 rapes, and two killings, that occurred on bike paths in the Buffalo, Amherst and Hamburg as far back as 1981. The case went cold …
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What's one activity that is growing among Americans 45 years and older, while it declines among the population as a whole? Bicycle riding.
The finding is in a report entitled “Global Aging and Sports: The Impact of Aging of the World's Population on the World of Sports.” It was prepared by The Consilience Group, LLC, for SBRnet, a Princeton, New Jersey-based sports marketing research firm.
I'm a little surprised in the findings that bicycling has declined among the population as a whole since the early 1990s. However, the National Bicycle Dealers Association reports that the peak participation year for cycling was 1992 with 54.6 million participants. The most recent estimates available are for 2002, when 41.4 million Americans took to their bicycles. Sales figures, however, show steady growth. …
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Wildflower Century sponsored by the Chico Velo Cycling club.
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When Tom Stevens stepped off the Alameda Ferry in Oakland to begin his around the world bicycle ride in 1884, there were a couple of things he didn't have to worry about — cars and trucks.
Of course, that meant he had to do without roads, too.
National Public Radio ran an interview this weekend with Thomas Pauly, a University of Delaware faculty member who wrote a forward to a re-release of Stevens' travelogue — “Around the World on a Bicycle.”
In that interview, I was struck by some of the connections between Stevens' ride of 120 years ago and our rides today. …
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Illustration from Thomas Stevens' Around the World on a Bicycle
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View from Cape Horn location on the Central Pacific Railroad in the Sierra Nevada, California. The Society of California Pioneers.
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Stevens, who started his ride in 1884, was also the first TransAmerica bicyclist.
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