Sixteen cities will host the 2010 Tour of California when the fifth edition of the bike race rolls out May 16 to 23.
This is a couple of months later than the previous four Tours of California that were scheduled in February. The new schedule will surely mean drier, warmer weather for the cyclists and spectators, as well as a bone fide mountain stage that ends at Big Bear Lake.
It also means that four of America's top cyclists — defending champion Levi Leipheimer and Lance Armstrong, George Hincapie and David Zabriskie — are choosing the California race over the Giro d'Italia, the three-week Grand Tour that also runs in May.
“Race Across the Sky” is a documentary on this year's epic Leadville 100 bike race that featured a rematch between David Wiens and Lance Armstrong and about 1,000 mountain bike riders.
Wiens, at 45, had won the grueling mountain bike race six straight times, including in 2008 when Armstrong decided to get back into cycling. Armstrong, 37, had won the Tour de France 7 times, but really wanted this Leadville win in his adopted state of Colorado.
Tonight's documentary is being billed as a one-night event at theaters across the country. It runs tonight at 8 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT with tape delay to 8 p.m. PT.
Two auctions are on tap this weekend in Seattle to raise funds for nonprofits that support bicycling.
Fortunately, the auctions for the Bicycle Alliance of Washington and The Bikery are on different nights.
First up is the Bicycle Alliance of Washington auction and gala beginning at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Seattle Center Fisher Pavilion.
The Alliance advocates for bicyclists in Washington. In addition to overseeing what our legislators are up to in Olympia, the BAW runs the Bike Station in Seattle and runs bike commuting and safe routes to school programs, among many other tasks. ….
Any plans you had for bicycling the Green River Trail in the next few years are being sandbagged.
Crews are racing to erect a 3- to 4-foot high sandbag wall along the trail to help contain expected floodwaters in Kent and Tukwila if heavy rains strike the area this winter.
The work stems from problems at the Corps of Engineer's Howard Hanson Dam upstream, where engineers are concerned about the structural integrity of the dam. They'll be releasing more water to reduce pressure on the dam, which could mean flooding downstream in the Green River Valley.
The Green River Trail could be closed to bicycles for up to five years, if it takes the Corps that long to figure out how to solve and repair the problem. With the sandbags in the middle of the trail that sits on top of the levee, there's not enough room for safe usage by bike riders and pedestrians.
The less scenic, but more direct, north-south Interurban Trail is slated to remain open. …..
The League of American Bicyclists named 15 more cities to its Bicycle-Friendly Community list this week, bringing the grand total to 124.
While cities named to the list over the past 14 years are predominantly from western states, the League trumpeted the fact that 10 of the 15 newest communities came from midwestern or eastern states.
The addition of the new communities means that 35 million of us live in Bicycle-Friendly Communities. And figures in the American Community Survey released recently by the US Census Bureau show that workers in bike-friendly communities commute by bicycle at more than double the national average…..
About 40 bike riders from across Canada are currently in the middle of a 3,100-mile relay ride to this weekend's LiveStrong Challenge in Austin.
Calling themselves Give to Live, the group crossed over to Port Angeles, Washington, from Vancouver on Oct. 12 as they began their 12-day bike tour to the heart of Texas.
[The video at left shows one of the teams tooling across the California desert from Bishop to Death Valley.]
The cyclists are split up among six teams, with each person averaging about 70 to 100 miles a day ….
Congratulations to Garmin Slipstream's sprinter Tyler Farrar.
The 25-year-old from Wenatchee, Washington, scored more points than any other US cyclist on the UCI's individual world rankings. Topping the virtual podium were Tour de France winner Alberto Contador, Alejandro Valverde and Samuel Sanchez, all from Spain.
Farrar has 9 first-place finishes in 2009 and won the Circuit Franco Belge and Delta Tour Zeeland stage races. He accumulated 212 points, to put him in 18th.
While a lot of attention is focused on making big cities more bicycle friendly, the next battle is being waged in the suburbs.
In South Jersey suburbs around Philadelphia, for instance, planners are going up against road networks built solely for the automobile, and bicyclists are facing motorists who don't look out for them. A regular bike commuter between Philadelphia and Cherry Hill, New Jersey, told the Philadelphia Inquirer:
“In Philadelphia there's a lot of volume, but maybe because [drivers] see more cyclists, they are more aware. Here (Cherry Hill) you really got to watch them, because they're not watching for you. …
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Sixteen cities will host the 2010 Tour of California when the fifth edition of the bike race rolls out May 16 to 23.
The League of American Bicyclists named 15 more cities to its Bicycle-Friendly Community list this week, bringing the grand total to 124.
Congratulations to Garmin Slipstream's sprinter Tyler Farrar. 
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