2009 archive
While Dave Zabriskie was earning a second-place finish at the Amgen Tour of California last week, person or persons unknown were helping themselves to belongings in Zabriskie's Salt Lake City home.
The report comes a little more than a week after Lance Armstrong announced to world via Twitter that his time trial bicycle had been stolen after the prologue in Sacramento.
That one-of-a-kind bicycle was eventually recovered. Zabriskie announced his much-greater loss to Twitter as well:
“My house was broken into while at TOC. They took everything …
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This scene from Twin Bridges, Montana, might have made an impression on bike travelers pedaling through on the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail over the years.
Those bicycle tourists certainly made an impression on the people of Twin Bridges, population 400.
In fact, those cyclists have made such a good impression that citizens of the town in southwestern Montana are creating a bicycle campground right on the shores of the Beaverhead River.
The only problem is that the folks in Twin Bridges don't tour by bicycle, so they need some help to determine what's needed at the campground.
Bill White of Twin Bridges recently contacted Adventure Cycling Association …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/24/suggestions-needed-for-twin-bridges-montana-bicycle-camp/
It seems that Lance Armstrong is competing in more races during his comeback year than he ever did during his earlier career.
The 7-time Tour de France winner announced that he's scheduled to ride in the 2009 Tour of Ireland from Aug. 19-23. That would make the eighth pro cycling race for Armstrong this year.
The race precedes the LiveStrong Global Cancer Summit which is scheduled for Aug. 24-26 in Dublin, Ireland …
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Tour of Ireland rolls out from Aug. 19-23 in 2009. Lance Armstrong has announced his participation in the bicycle race.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/23/tour-of-ireland/
Levi Leipheimer showed 2 million cycling fans on the road this week that he had the speed and strength to survive wind, rain and snow to win his third Amgen Tour of California championship.
Finishing 1 second behind the winner in Sacramento's prologue last Saturday, Leipheimer took control of the yellow jersey on Monday and held onto it with the help of his Astana teammates all the way to Escondido on Sunday.
Another US cyclist, David Zabriskie on Garmin-Slipstream, finished in 2nd place and Michael Rogers of Team Columbia finished in 3rd. Lance Armstrong, who rode in support of teammate Leipheimer, finished in the top 10.
Leipheimer could have found his championship hopes threatened at Sunday's Stage 8. …
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World bicycle travelers Pat and Cat Patterson (at left) are on the road again, but Robert Hollandsworth is having to abandon his bike tour in Texas.
Two years after they completed a four-year bicycle tour through 57 countries on 4 continents, the Pattersons are pedaling their loaded bicycles through foreign lands again — this time in Southeast Asia.
The Pattersons are proof that it's never too late to fulfill your dreams. They're both survivors of messy divorces who built a successful real estate business in southern California until they realized it was time to stop the rat race and see the world
Pat, who's pushing 70, and Cat, in her late 50s, explain their motivations …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/22/one-bike-tour-begins-another-ends-early/
Welcome to Rexburg, Idaho, where bicycles are prohibited on plank sidewalks and the bicycle speed limit on Main Street is 5 mph; 12 mph elsewhere in town.
Don't worry. If you get a $25 ticket, you can work it off for $2 a day by working on village streets.
If those laws sound a little strange, it's because they were enacted in 1901 when hot-dogging thrill-seekers on bicycles were the scourge of many towns. Members of the Trails of Madison County committee are suggesting many changes to those laws …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/22/rexburg-idaho-bicycling-6-mph-on-main-street-earns-a-ticket/
Levi Leipheimer came one day closer on Saturday to winning his third straight Amgen Tour of California bicycle race title by finishing comfortably in the peloton in Pasadena.
A member of a 10-man breakaway, Rinaldo Nocentini of Team AG2R, won the stage. He and two other riders made a break on the laps around Pasadena and held off the chase to win the 89-mile stage from Santa Clarita.
On a sad note, one of the cyclists who had really made his mark during this year's Tour of California left the race after crashing..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/22/nocentini-wins-stage-7-leipheimer-still-wearing-yellow/
Time trial ace Levi Leipheimer proved that he's in top form at the 2009 Amgen Tour of California by winning the Stage 6 individual time trial and probably solidifying his championship at Sunday's finish in Escondido.
He beat his closest adversary — National Time Trial Champion David Zabriskie — by 9 seconds over the 15-mile course. Zabriskie effort put him into second place overall, 36 seconds behind Leipheimer.
Three-time world time trial champion Michael Rogers, who had been in 2nd place at the beginning of the day, dropped to 3rd with his day's showing of 23 seconds behind Leipheimer…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/20/leapin-levi-leipheimer-wins-3rd-solvang-time-trial-in-a-row/
Last year's sunny blue skies aren't expected to make a repeat performance at the 2009 Chilly Hilly bike ride that kicks off the Puget Sound area recreational cycling season on Sunday.
It might be sunny on Friday, but the weather forecast for Bainbridge Island on Sunday is flat-out rain.
I hope the forecasters are wrong on that, but I'll suggest reattaching fenders, tightening up the brakes a bit, and digging out the Gor-Tex raingear. Probably take along an extra pair of gloves and maybe wool socks …
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