2009 archive
Look for David Zabriskie in the yellow jersey at the Tour of Missouri on Saturday. The cyclist from Utah won the individual time trial on Friday, catapulting him 56 places into 1st.
The specialists have controlled the 2009 Tour of Missouri bike race so far.
First it was the sprint specialists — Mark Cavendish, Thor Hushovd, and Juan Jose Haedo — who won the races and controlled the overall lead.
On Friday's Stage 5, it was individual time trial specialist Zabriskie made his mark by finishing the 19-mile course in Sedalia 30 seconds faster than his nearest rival, and taking over the lead of the Tour by 30 seconds.
Now it's up to Zabriskie and the Garmin-Slipstream pro cycling team to protect the yellow jersey ….
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Eight years ago this morning we watched a terrible event unfold that would bring profound changes to our nation and its foreign policies.
There are several bicycle rides that remember 9/11 and memorialize those who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. Here are three in New York, North Carolina and Kentucky.
The Tour de Force 9/11 Memorial Bike Ride that began in 2002 when about a dozen bicyclists, mostly NYPD officers, rode their bikes from the Pentagon in the Washington DC to Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan.
This year's ride comprises about 170 bike riders who will leave on Friday from Boston …..
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The overall lead of the 2009 Tour of Missouri passed to Juan Jose Haedo of Team Saxo Bank on Thursday as he won the Stage 4 sprint in Jefferson City. (This video at left from Rochester Cycling shows the sprinters mounting a tough hill on the way to the finish.)
Brit Mark Cavendish of Team Columbia, the winner of Stage 1 and 2 and overall leader the first two days, bowed out of the race on Thursday with a respiratory infection.
Norwegian Thor Hushovd, who took over the lead by winning the sprint on Wednesday, narrowly missed a second victory on the 109-mile race from St. James to Jefferson City ….
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Cross-country bike travelers who are tired enough to sleep in a hollow log at night probably won't mind the fact that the new bike hostel in Farmington, Missouri, is a refurbished county jail.
The Transamerican Trail Cyclers Inn opened its doors Tuesday night, just in time for the start of Stage 3 of the Tour of Missouri on Wednesday.
The hostel is also known as “Al's Place,” named in recognition of local bicycling enthusiast Al Dziewa who died of cancer. The hostel sports 14 bunk beds in three bedrooms, a bathroom, kitchen and laundry room. ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/09/10/old-jail-reopened-as-bike-hostel-in-farmington-missouri/
The bike hostel dedicated in Farmington, Missouri, is the old St. Francois County jail. See details at Bike hostel opened in Farmington, Missouri
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The Bicycle Film Festival rolls into Seattle this Friday and Saturday on its 39-city tour around the world.
More than 30 films can be viewed at the Henry Museum Auditorium on the UW Campus. Most are short releases, although nearly every program features a full-length bicycle film.
An after-party at the Flowers Bar and Restaurant runs from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
The first feature film is “Where Are You Go”, the story of two brothers from Canada and their American friend who take on the Tour D'Afrique, the world's longest bicycle race and expedition. Shown in the trailer above, one rider tells the essence of his experience ….
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Hard work by Team Columbia and Garmin Slipstream didn't pay off at the Tour of Missouri on Wednesday as Norwegian Thor Hushovd survived at the front of a rolling finish into Rolla to take Stage 3.
Columbia's Mark Cavendish couldn't get through to the front of the mass sprint in Rolla. His finish position put him in a virtual tie with Hushovd for the overall race lead.
A three-man breakaway — including Garmin cyclists Michael Friedman and William Frischkorn and Matthew Wilson of Team Type 1 …
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See more photos at Garmin-Slipstream at flickr.com.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/09/09/tyler-farrar-wins-sprint-at-vuelta/
The wait is over for US cyclist Tyler Farrar. The Garmin Slipstream speedster from Wenatchee, Washington, notched up his first ever Grand Tour stage victory on Wednesday at the Vuelta a Espana.
The win came in Caravaca de la Cruz at the end of the 120-mile Stage 11 of the tour of Spain.
Team Liquigas had controlled the charging peloton in the final kilometers, but attacks by Fabian Cancellara, then Oscar Freire, upset their plans.
Farrar rocketed to the front at the close, but no one could pass him.
After a total of five 2nds and 3rds earlier this year in the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France, Farrar must be relieved that he finally has a win in a Grand Tour ..
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Ernest H. Simpson will surely be missed, not just by his family and friends in his hometown, but by thousands of people in developing nations around the world who ride bicycles he collected and refurbished.
Known locally in Gettysburg as The Bicycle Man, Simpson passed away this summer at the age of 88. He leaves behind a tradition of salvaging discarded and unwanted bikes, fixing them up, and giving them away. We're talking more than 10,000 bicycles.
The Patriot News has a good article about Simpson, and tells how it all started one day when he was walking home from work in the early 1950s and saw a man throwing out a couple of bicycles …
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