2009 archive
The US Bicycling Hall of Fame will relocate from its current home in New Jersey to either Davis, California, or Greensboro, North Carolina.
The towns are the top finalists from among 11 that sought to house the bicycling foundation's headquarters after more than 20 years in Somerset, New Jersey.
The Hall displays bicycles, jerseys, photos, trophies and other memorabilia of more than 100 years of US cycling history. It also celebrates the sport of cycling by inducting Hall of Famers every year and coordinating annual bike races.
Its home in Somerset is demolished to make way for a redevelopment project …
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Lance Armstrong underwent surgery to repair his right collarbone on Wednesday morning in Austin, and first reports say “all went well.”
Armstrong said Tuesday night through his spokesman that it wasn't a clean fracture and there were “multiple pieces” that his doctor, Austin surgeon Doug Elenz, will attach to a plate placed on top of the clavicle.
A note posted on Team Astana's Twitter website shortly after 3 p.m. ET said: “Lance is done with surgery. All went well.” Armstrong's spokesman said surgeons repaired the break with a 4-5-inch metal plate and 12 screws.
Armstrong broke his right collarbone when he fell in a pileup …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/25/armstrong-gets-surgery-to-repair-broken-collarbone/
Three-time Tour of California winner Levi Leipheimer is leading the 5-stage Vuelta a Castilla y León bike race in Spain after the third stage on Wednesday.
The US rider took the leader's jersey on Tuesday after winning the 17.5-mile individual time trial around Palencia.
Trailing Leipheimer by 16 seconds is his Astana teammate and team captain Alberto Contador …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/25/leipheimer-leading-bike-race-that-armstrong-abandoned/
Pan American bicycle tourist Sam Hagler just happened to have his camera running when he was attacked by a swarm of Africanized bees in Argentina recently.
The result is his gripping video posted on YouTube of him pedaling for his life.
Anyone on a long bicycle tour is bound to ride into some misfortune, but Sam had enough bad luck in that one day to last his entire 10,000-mile ride from Paraguay to Arizona.
The former Peace Corps volunteer supports the protection of endangered forests and is raising money through his Ride for the Trees to help fund two non-profits working to save the San Rafael Reserve in Paraguay.
But that bike tour nearly came to an abrupt end in northern Argentina in late January when he stopped at a bridge to take a break and look through the gear on his trailer to find a hammock. That's when a swarm of Africanized bees attacked …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/24/cyclo-tourist-pushing-on-in-spite-of-killer-bees-and-thieves/
Samuel Hagler pedals past a logging truck. He's touring South America trying to raise money to save trees in the San Rafael Reserve in Paraguay. See more at his Ride for the Trees website.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/24/samuel-hagler/
Lance Armstrong sits at the side of the road while he awaiting medical attention after crashing and breaking his collarbone. Video from Spanish TV
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/23/lance-armstrong-awaiting-medical-attention/
Lance Armstrong's comeback road took a crushing detour Monday when he crashed near the end of Stage 1 of the Vuelta a Castilla y León bike race.
Team Astana reports that Armstrong suffered a broken collarbone in the crash, which occurred about 12.5 miles from the finish in Baltanás, Spain. He went down in a pileup with other cyclists.
Video at a Spanish website shows Armstrong holding his arm as he enters an ambulance. The pileup happened on a narrow stretch with about a dozen cyclists.
The footage from the helicopter shows support crews checking on riders and replacing bikes on the road, then pans to a solitary figure wearing a yellow helmet sitting about 8 feet off the road with his back to the action.
Astana team director Johan Bruyneel wrote on Twitter that it was a “clean collarbone fracture without complications. Should be fast recovery. …
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Not since former President Bush crashed into some security guards in Scotland has there been so much coverage of a non-competitive bicycle accident.
This morning the news is Today show host Matt Lauer's “run-in” with a deer while riding on Long Island over the weekend. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/23/deer-wins-confrontation-with-bicycling-tv-celebrity/
A few years ago I wrote about Ferndale, Washington, bike-maker Kona's efforts to create a rugged bicycle for use in Africa for home healthcare workers.
The AfricaBike program was a three-way effort by Kona, Bicycling Magazine and Bristol-Myers Squibb to provide bicycles and medications to several countries in sub-Sahara Africa to provide AIDS/HIV treatment.
This past week I saw in a Seattle Times commuter bicycle review by Dan Nelson that those AfricaBikes (in 1-speed and 3-speed versions) are available in the United States and Canada as commuter bikes.
Checking around, I also learned that the Kona BikeTown project is still going strong and plans to send more bicycles to Africa this year. Since it was launched in 2005, some 3,000 all-steel bicycles have been delivered …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/22/africabikes-on-dirt-paths-in-africa-and-paved-streets-in-us/
Columbia-High Road's Mark Cavendish notched another win this season by outsprinting Germany's Heinrich Haussler in the Milan-San Remo spring classic on Saturday.
The Brit on the US-based cycling team already has five stage wins this year in addition to winning this 100th edition of the 184-mile race through Italy.
It marked the return to Euro cycling by Lance Armstrong, who last competed here in 2002. Armstrong finished in the second big group to cross the finish line, 8:19 behind Cavenish. His official placement was 125th …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/22/mark-cavendish-wins-milan-san-remo/
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