2009 archive
Let's hope the bike racers competing in events on the 2010 National Racing Calendar aren't in it for the dough, because there's less prize money to go around this year.
USA Cycling says the overall prize list for the 27 bike races on this year's calendar is $981,310, down about $150,000 from last year's final total prize package.
The total amount is about $400,000 less than what was promised at the beginning of the 2009 season, but seven of those races fell off the calendar, reducing the total by about $250,000, says USA Cycling.
The calendar comprises 15 criteriums, 8 multi-stage races …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/10/17/less-prize-money-in-the-pot-for-usa-bike-racing-this-year/
Google Maps is looking for help in selecting places to send its StreetView trike.
Noting that some of the most interesting and scenic locales are not accessible by car, Google is accepting suggestions on what else should be featured on StreetView.
Of course, I'm thinking of nominating the most-used or most picturesque bike trails in the Pacific Northwest.
The Olympic Discovery Trail on the Olympic Peninsula comes to mind first, as it winds along between the Strait de Juan de Fuca on the north and the snowy peaks of the Olympic Mountains on the south. That's a picture of the trail east of Port Angeles where it skirts the seawall ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/10/16/tell-google-about-your-favorite-bike-trail-for-streetview/
Who doesn't like bike theft story with a happy ending. Here's one from Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
A college professor discovered that her much-loved Trek bicycle had been stolen from the front porch one night after she left it resting against her husband's locked-up bike.
Much distraught, she started hunting around on Craigslist the next morning for a replacement bike. Instead, she stumbled across a bike — not pictured — that matched the description of her bicycle. She contacted the seller using her husband's e-mail address, got a response. Then she went to the Wellesley Police.
The police believed her story, telephoned the seller, met him and arrested him. When the suspect saw police, he immediately said, “I know what this is about. It's about the bike.” ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/10/16/stolen-bike-found-on-craigslist-for-the-umpteenth-time/
“Every part of the trail is fascinating.”
— A quote from Caitlin Truesdale, a ninth-grader at Pingree High School in Peabody, Massachusetts, who won the Bikeway Naming Essay Contest.
She chose to name the 4.6-mile trail the Peabody Independence Gateway. The bikeway has been in the works for 19 years. It cost $192,000 to design and $3 million to build.
The story in The Salem News doesn't explain why she chose the name …
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Electra Bicycles is recalling 6,400 bikes with front-mounted trays and baskets and Moser Enterprises is recalling 5,000 Schwalbe bike tires.
The bikes in the recall include the 2009 Delivery 3i, Delivery 8D, Holiday 3i, Holiday 8i and Surf 3i bicycles with front-mounted trays or baskets as well as trays or baskets sold separately.
The curret recall includes bikes that were part of a front tray recall earlier this year….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/10/14/recalls-schwalbe-bike-tires-and-bikes-with-front-baskets/
The 2010 Tour de France bike race that rolls out July 3-25 will be a 2,232-mile counterclockwise loop around France that sees four mountain stages in the Pyrenees and an individual time trial in the final week.
In fact, the organizers found the climb up the Col du Tourmalet so nice that they've scheduled it twice, once on the way to Pau in Stage 16 and then as the finish on Stage 17.
The grand tour begins with a 5-mile prologue in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The remaining 20 stages are comprised of six mountain stages (three finish on summits), four medium mountain stages, nine flat stages and one individual time trial, a 36.6-mile race against the clock on the next to last day.
Announced in Paris on Wednesday, the immediate reaction was a mixed bag. Defending champion Alberto Contador liked it better than the 2009 route, but was worried about the cobblestones in Belgium. Green jersey winner Thor Hushovd …..
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Route for 2010 Tour de France, July 3-25, 2010.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/10/14/2010-tour-de-france/
Google keeps adding data to its maps to make them more detailed.
That's good news for bicyclists who want to find bike trail routes in their cities that might take them near their destinations.
As I found from tracing some bike trails in the Seattle area, some are labeled and some aren't. Some are mislabeled. Some vanish from sight in places then reappear later. But it's a start, and the information on the Google maps is only as good as the sources.
At its Google Lat Long blog, the company tells about some of the improvements and says “…cyclists will now find many more trails and paths to explore. Soon we even plan on providing you with biking directions to take advantage of this new data …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/10/13/google-maps-adding-bike-trails-directions-are-next/
Slowly but surely, Google is adding bike paths to its maps. Although the “streetview” wasn't taken from the Burke Gilman Trail, I spied it from an adjacent street.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/10/13/streetview-of-bike-riders-on-burke-gilman-trail/
Mark Junge wants to prove that he can go on bike tours too, even though he's a daily supplemental oxygen user.
Junge, a retired historian, photographer and writer from Wyoming, is leaving New York City this week for a 816-mile bike tour to Charleston, South Carolina. He expects the bike ride to take about two weeks.
The bike traveler suffers from blood clots in the lungs, a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease that makes it difficult for him to breath. Instead becoming inactive because of the disorder, however, Junge gets on his bike to motivate others with the condition to go out and live a full life ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/10/13/man-attempts-800-mile-bike-tour-on-supplemental-oxygen/
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