2009 archive
If you can't get enough bicycling during the day, then the upcoming Moonlight Ramble in Bellingham might be for you.
The Oct. 3 event is the first Moonlight Ramble-style bike ride in Washington. It starts with a festival featuring live music on the Western Washington University campus at 9 p.m. followed by the bicycle tour at 11 p.m.
Under the light of the next full moon (barring clouds of course), the 7-mile ride starts on the university campus and swings through Fairhaven, Boulevard Park and downtown.
The organizers, Bike Bellingham …
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Moonlight Ramble is Washington's first night-time bicycle ride. In Bellingham on Oct. 3.
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If you're anywhere near Tipp City, Ohio, Monday afternoon, you might want to welcome home Phil Nagle from his bike ride through 48 states.
The 23-year-old is completing his bike tour around the continental US about one week past his goal of 48 states in 48 days.
Supporters say that “strong headwinds, inclement weather and a few detours slowed his pace a bit,” but that doesn't diminish the amazing accomplishment of riding nearly 8,200 miles in what became 56 days — about 145 miles a day.
Nagle undertook the ride to raise money for cancer research and make a stab at getting in the Guinness Book for World Records…..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/09/14/ohios-phil-nagle-finishing-48-state-bike-tour-just-shy-of-goal/
Wrapping up a 48-state bike ride on Monday. More at Go 48 in 48.
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Lots of congratulations are in order at the close of this third Tour of Missouri.
First, congrats to Dave Zabriskie for winning his first stage race in his 11-year career.
The Garmin-Slipstream individual time trial specialist can add that accomplishment to his many others. Those include stage wins in all three Grands Tours, a yellow jersey at the Tour de France, and four-straight National Time Trial championships.
In a race that saw the peloton finish intact on all the road stages, Zabriskie won decisively by beating his closest rivals by 30 seconds in the Stage 5 individual time trial around Sedalia on Thursday ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/09/14/zabriskie-is-2009-tour-of-missouri-bike-race-champion/
David Zabriskie wins the 2009 Tour of Missouri. More pics at Garmin Slipsteam's flickr.com photo page.
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Hurray for Washington DC bicyclists taking this stand.
Late in August, Washington DC street crews cut the lock and removed a Ghost Bike that had been posted near Dupont Circle to memorialize the location where a truck struck and killed a young woman on a bicycle about a year earlier.
On Thursday came the response from the bicycling community — a new Ghost Bike chained up at the corner of 20th and R streets along with 21 other Ghost Bikes posted on lamp posts throughout the intersection.
That's one bicycle for every year in the life of Alice Swanson, the crash victim …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/09/13/dc-cyclists-dont-move-the-ghost-bike/
The Garmin-Slipstream cycling team held off a steady stream of attacks on Saturday to protect Dave Zabriskie's overall lead in the 2009 Tour of Missouri bike race.
The Utah cyclist ended the day with a 30-second lead over the nearest rival as the peloton faces Sunday's last stage, a 72-mile criterium around Kansas City.
Except for Friday's individual time trial, in which Zabriskie took the overall lead in the bike race, every stage has ended in a mass sprint. The 105-mile stage from Chillicothe to St. Joseph was no exception.
Italy's Francesco Chicchi surprised Thor Hushovd (Cervelo) and Sebastien Haedo …
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France's David Moncoutie spent 5 hours in a breakaway at the Vuelta a Espana on Saturday, much of it solo, to win the 107-mile stage that ended with a mountain top finish at Sierra Nevada.
While Alejandro Valverde followed soon enough to retain his overall lead, Garmin-Slipstream's Tom Danielson finished so far back that he lost his 4th place in the General Classification and virtually fell out of contention to 9th overall, 6:52 minutes behind the leader.
Australia's Cadel Evans was another Valverde rival who suffered a loss Saturday ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/09/12/valverde-still-leads-vuelta-a-espana-after-13-evans-and-danielson-suffer/
Ryder Hesjedal survived the breakaway and mountain top finish to win Stage 12 of the Vuelta a Espana on Friday.
The 28-year-old cyclist comes from Victoria, BC, and is a member of the Garmin-Slipstream team.
In winning the 108-mile bike race to Alto de Velefique, Hesjedal becomes the first Canadian to ever win a stage at the Vuelta a Espana and the first Canadian to win a Grand Tour stage since Stephen Bauer in 1988.
He finished second in Stage 10 …
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