2009 archive
Organizers of the 2009 Bicycle Film Festival are imploring filmmakers and other bicycling fans to “Make a Bike Movie.”
Coming up on its ninth year, the show is extending its entry deadline to March 7. In the past, the festival has shown everything from under-10 minute shorts shot with a hand-held to slicker-looking, feature length documentaries.
At left is a compilation of 2007 festival trailers.
According to its Bicycle Film Festival website:
“The Bicycle Film Festival is a celebration of bicycles through film, art and music. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/03/enter-your-film-in-the-2009-bicycle-film-festival/
Looking at the “road cred” of the cyclists in the 2009 Amgen Tour of California, you could support the tour organizers' assertion that this is “the strongest field of professional cyclists ever assembled in the United States.”
The full roster of 136 cyclists on 17 teams are listed below. Scanning the list, I don't see many of today's top cyclists who aren't on it, except for former Tour de France winners Alberto Contador, and Oscar Pereiro. I'd expect a high level of competition as the race rolls through California Feb. 14-22.
Leading the bunch will be 2-time Tour of California winner Levi Leipheimer, above. Joining him on the Astana team will be comeback king Lance Armstrong, winner of 7 Tours de France….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/03/2009-tour-of-california-roster-released-best-ever-in-us/
Ride the Rockies and Bicycle Tour of Colorado bike tour routes both leave from Glenwood Springs.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/02/two-colorado-bicycle-tours/
Bicyclists who like the rarified air of the Rocky Mountains and enjoy the camaraderie of mass bicycle tours are in luck this summer.
Two week-long bike tours — Ride the Rockies and Bicycle Tour of Colorado — are scheduled to leave Glenwood Springs on back-to-back weeks, enabling cyclists to go from the completion of one ride to the beginning of the other.
Organizers for the Denver Post Ride the Rockies announced its route this weekend. It begins with registration in Glenwood Springs on June 13, covers 380 miles of the Rocky Mountain scenery and returns on June 19. It's the first year in its 24 year history that Ride the Rockies has been routed as a loop…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/02/glenwood-springs-launches-ride-the-rockies-and-bicycle-tour-of-colorado-in-2009/
The Wenatchee World has published an inspiring story about bicyclist Ed Farrar's rehabilitation from spinal injuries he suffered in October when a car crossed the centerline and crashed into him head-on.
People in central Washington know Farrar, 57, as a respected surgeon with Wenatchee Orthaepedics. Cycling fans know him as the father of Tyler Farrar, 24, a sprinter on Garmin Chipotle.
Some 13 weeks after the collision, Farrar has returned home and is getting used to life in a wheelchair. Everyone agrees that the crash could have killed him, but a set of circumstances combined to accelerate this treatment …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/01/bicyclist-ed-farrars-battle-to-recover-from-crash/
The first thing that came into my mind as I lay in the street under my bicycle on Friday was, “This is a hell of a way to start a bike ride.”
Then I realized I couldn't clip out of my right pedal, my right hip and elbow hurt like the dickens and my glasses were about a foot from my face.
I finally disengaged myself from my bike, stood up, picked up the stuff that had fallen off me and my bike, and limped back to the house. Fortunately, I had fallen within 10 feet of my driveway. Also, no one had witnessed it …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/31/crashing-out-10-feet-from-my-driveway-january-bike-ride-stats/
Falling debris hazards in five John Wayne Pioneer Trail tunnels, including the 2.3-mile-long Snoqualmie Pass Tunnel at left, have convinced Washington state parks to close them until further notice.
The closures are bad news for the many bicyclists and hikers who pass through the tunnels at they hike and bike the 100-mile-long rail-trail over the Cascades from Cedar Falls to the Columbia River.
Shutting down the tunnels not only removes interesting historical landmarks from the Iron Horse State Park, which contains the rail-trail, but requires trail users to take long detours — sometimes out to Interstate 90 — to get through the remote area.
A request for funds to repair the tunnels, estimated at $9 million, are included in the 2009-2011 two-year budget cycle …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/31/washington-state-closes-all-5-iron-horse-trail-tunnels-indefinitely/
If you're a cyclo-cross fan, then you'll want to check out the Universal Sports website on Sunday where a same-day delay video feed of the Cyclocross World Championships will be shown.
The World Feed, so-called because it's a raw feed without commentary, will be available a couple of hours after the completion of the competition in Hoogerheide, The Netherlands. Video from both the men's and women's competition will be available.
Check back to cycling schedule page at UniversalSports.com for times and details about the webcast.
Leading contenders for medals in the elite men's division include Sven Nys, 32, of Belgium, Lars Boom, 23, of The Netherlands …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/31/webcast-of-cyclo-cross-world-championships-on-sunday/
Who's up for a 7-day rolling party across Iowa? Whoa. Did I just see 10,000 hands go up?
The Des Moines Register on Thursday announced this year's route for RAGBRAI, naming a west to east route that starts in Council Bluffs on July 19 and ends in Burlington on July 25.
At 442 miles, it's one of the shortest in the history of the recreational bicycle tour. To make up for that, organizers picked a hillier than normal route with nearly 23,000 of total elevation gain.
The lucky few named as host towns for the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa are Council Bluffs, Red Oak, Greenfield, Indianola, Chariton, Ottumwa, Mt. Pleasant and Burlington…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/30/ragbrai-announces-a-shorter-hilly-bike-ride-in-2009/
The 2009 RAGBRAI route between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers is one of the shortest in the bike tour's 37 year history. More information at Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa website.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/30/2009-ragbrai-route/
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