2009 archive
Team RadioShack has issued a sneak peak of the prototype jersey the new US-based pro cycling team might be wearing next year.
Then Trek released a photo of the Madone that Team RadioShack will use in 2010. The graphic scheme will be available to the public in March.
I like the distinctive look of the jersey.
With the grey top and red through the torso, it should be easy to spot from helicopter camera views of the peloton. That's especially helpful if you're trying to find Lance Armstrong's team on a foreign language broadcast.
From the looks of the first day of training camp in Tucson on Monday, the team could use its own jersey. ….
Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/08/fashion-statement-from-team-radioshack-and-the-new-madone/
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/08/early-prototype-of-radioshack-jersey/
Bellevue opens a bike station for 27 bikes. See Commute Connection.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/08/bike-station-at-commute-connection/
It's always gratifying to learn that your hometown is making progress toward bicycle friendliness.
That's why I was happy to learn that Bellevue, Washington, has joined Seattle and Redmond by opening a bike station. It's housed inside Bellevue's Commute Connection at the Transit Center on Sixth Street.
That Commute Connection “store” is where commuters can learn about options to driving solo to work or errands. Staff is on-site from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily through the winter to assist in planning commute trips by bike, bus, and car- or van-pool.
The highlight for me is the secure indoor parking at the site for 27 bicycles ….
Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/07/secure-bicycle-parking-at-bellevues-bike-station/
Rooster is the symbol of 38th RAGBRAI.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/07/2010-ragbrai-logo/
While researchers say that risk is a big issue that keeps women off bicycles on the road, a documentary comes to grips with another problem of perception — it's just not cool.
Says one of the subjects in a UK documentary about young women on bikes: “I thought it was just a little kid's thing.”
A study published in Scientific American in October noted that, in general, women are more averse to risk than men. In bicycling, that reluctance is overcome with good bike infrastructure, such as bike lanes, bike paths and a bike friendly atmosphere.
A project in Darlington, UK, finds there's more to it than that in Beauty and the Bike: Why do British girls stop cycling?”
Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/06/changing-how-young-women-look-at-bicycling/
UPS is putting bicycles with trailers back on the road along the West Coast to save the cost of increasing its truck fleet during the holiday season.
While UPS experimented with going back to its roots in Washington and Oregon in recent years, now the world's largest package delivery business is expanding the use of bikes to 45 routes throughout Northern California.
The bike-trailer set-ups cost UPS about $700 each. Still, using human-powered delivery saves UPS about $45,000 to $50,000 in fuel and maintenance costs by eliminating the need to rent 20 to 25 trucks ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/05/ups-using-bikes-for-deliveries-again-this-holiday/
When I wrote about Farmington, Missouri, opening a bike hostel in an old jail on the TransAmerica Trail this fall, I wondered how many hostels are primarily devoted to bicycle travelers.
I could name three off the top of my head from my TransAmerica trip 25 years ago — Cookie Lady's Bike House in Afton, Virginia; Elk Garden, Virginia, and Pippa Passes, Kentucky.
We also bunked in hostels in Ordway, Colorado; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Hutchinson, Kansas.
When I started searching for more recently, it didn't take long before I stumbled across several websites with extensive lists of free or low-cost bike hostels …..
Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/04/bike-hostels-theyll-leave-the-light-on-for-you/
One of the bicycling world's most articulate travel authors passed away recently on what she said was going to be her last around-the-world bike tour.
Anne Mustoe of Great Britain died in a hospital in Aleppo, Syria, on Nov. 10. She was 76.
The former girl's school headmistress started her around-the-world bicycle travels when she was 54. She circled the globe twice — once in each direction — and wrote 7 books about her adventures.
She got the idea to travel by bike when she saw a man pedaling a bicycle across a desert in northern India. She was riding in a passing train at the time.
She left her job at the girl's school and was given a Condor bicycle as a going away present. She covered about 100,000 miles on that bike before she died. ….
Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/03/bike-travel-author-anne-mustoe-dies-on-bike-tour-in-syria/
One of the books by popular British bike travel author Anne Mustoe.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/03/anne-mustoe/
Recent Comments