May 2009 archive
The Sheriff's deputy who killed two bicyclists in California when he fell asleep at the wheel in March 2008 will be sentenced to four months of “house arrest.”
The deaths of competitive cyclists Matt Peterson and Kristy Gough on a winding stretch of Santa Clara County highway on March 9, 2008, brought out more than 1,000 bicycle riders on a memorial ride to the site of the collision a week later.
(Peterson was a member of Team Roaring Mouse; the video at left ends with a memorial for the cyclist. Gough rode for the Third Pillar Racing Team.)
On-duty Deputy James Council drifted over the double yellow line and ran into the pair head-on while they were on a training ride with others. …
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It was a long day in the saddle for the 194 cyclists who pedaled 155 miles through the mountains in northern Italy and Austria on Thursday, but Michele Scarponi is probably feeling no pain.
The Diquigiovanni cycling team member broke from the peloton with a small group early in Stage 6 and survived in the front all the way to Mayrhofen.
All the pain was felt by his breakaway companion Vasili Kiryenka, who suffered a mechanical near the finish then cramped up as he tried to catch Scarponi.
Italy's Danilo Di Luca retained the pink jersey ….
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No one could match Russian cyclist Denis Menchov's burst of speed inside the last mile on the way to winning Stage 5's mountaintop finish at the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday.
Tuesday's stage winner Danilo Di Luca finished right behind Menchov, but an important three seconds ahead of race leader Thomas Lövkvist of Team Columbia, thereby taking over the race lead and the pink jersey.
Americans Levi Leipheimer and Chris Horner finished just 9 seconds behind Menchov, solidifying their status in top 10. The Astana teammates are 4th for Leipheimer and 8th for Horner.
The most well-known Astana team member, comeback cyclist Lance Armstrong, failed to hang on …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/13/di-luca-in-pink-menchov-wins-grueling-stage-5-at-giro/
Washington tops off the list of Bicycle Friendly States published by the League of American Bicyclists for the second year in a row.
Wisconsin remained at No. 2 for the second year, but Maine climbed three places to be ranked No. 3 for 2009. Oregon and Minnesota round out the top 5.
The biggest success story from the list has to be Mississippi, which climbed 23 places to be ranked at No. 24. The biggest disappointment is Florida, which dropped 12 places to No. 32.
The bottom five states are New Mexico, 46; Alaska, 47; Oklahoma, 48; Montana, 49; and Alabama, 50. (Click 'more' for full list) ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/13/2009-bicycle-friendly-states-washington-is-no-1/
The possibility of hinges cracking on folding bike handleposts has prompted Dahon and REI to recall 11,500 folding bicycles in conjunction with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The agency said there had been 25 reports of the handlepost hinge on these bicycles cracking, including one minor injury involving scrapes and bruises.
The 2008 model year folding bicycles were distributed by Dahon and REI between March 2008 and April 2009 and sold by Dahon dealers and REI stores for between $430 to $1,300. …
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Dahon and REI Novara folding bicycles are being recalled because of a fall hazard regarding the handlebar post. Details at Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/12/folding-bicycle-recall/
Italian cyclist Danilo Di Luca rocketed past Mauricio Soler in the final 100 yards of the first mountaintop stage of this year's Giro d'Italia on Tuesday.
The steep terrain on the 100-mile stage from Padova to San Martino di Castrozza helped defeat the early leaders of the race such as Italian sprinter Alessandro Petacchi, and put Team Columbia's Thomas Lövkvist in the leader's pink jersey.
American Lance Armstrong, who started the day in 5th overall, stayed in the middle of a chase group all day, but was content to let the others attack in the steep final few kilometers. He finished 15 seconds behind the winner and dropped to 6th place overall. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/12/di-luca-wins-giro-stage-4-columbias-lovkvist-in-pink-jersey/
Ugualmente Male! US cyclist Christian Vande Velde has crashed out of the Giro d'Italia bicycle race.
You'll remember from this photo that Vande Velde became the second US cyclist ever to wear the Giro's pink leader jersey last year when his team won the opening team time trial stage.
Things didn't go quite as well this year, as Garmin-Chipotle finished in second place on the Stage 1 team time trial on Saturday to Team Columbia. Then Vande Velde crashed out on Monday.
He was sitting in 8th place overall when he crashed. …
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Pedicab in Times Square late Friday night
Just returned from a too short trip to New York City, and thought I'd share some bicycle photos I took while I was there.
What struck me the most on Friday was the overwhelming number of folks who earn their living on bicycles. For these people it's not so much bike-to-work, but bike-at-work.
Of course I spotted, and dodged, plenty of bicycle messengers running errands in the Times Square area as soon as I started walking around Friday morning.
Then toward lunch-time, I started seeing guys on heavier bikes who were delivering food either in plastic bags hanging from handlebars, or in boxes attached to the bikes. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/11/the-hard-working-bicyclists-of-new-york-city/
When your company does something that you're proud of, you want the world to know.
That's the impression I got from Ryan Burns, an employee at the Logos Bible Software company up in Bellingham.
With Bike-to-Work Day coming up on May 15, he wanted to brag a little about the in-house bicycle shop that Logos has funded.
You wouldn't be surprised to hear something like this about Microsoft, which has a bike repair shop for its hundreds of employees at the sprawling campus in Redmond. But Logos has just 170 employees, many of whom are serious bicyclists who work on their own bicycles.
By the way, Bellingham has been named a silver level Bicycle Friendly Community.
Here's a story that Ryan wrote up about the bike repair shop …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/10/bellingham-wa-software-firms-bicycle-shop/
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