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After losing touch with the race leaders on the final climb, Allan Davis fought back to the front of the peloton on Stage 5 and scored a hat trick at the Tour Down Under on Saturday in Australia.
The Aussie's time bonuses from three wins virtually assures him the championship when the 6-stage bicycle race ends Sunday.
Lance Armstrong battled to make a bid for the lead on Stage 5's second climb up daunting Willunga Hill and stayed near the front of the race. But if you want to know how things have changed since Armstrong last raced in the peloton, picture this scene:
As Armstrong leads a group of 10 riders struggling to catch the five cyclists up the hill, friend and former teammate George Hincapie and two others zoom out of the group and catch the leaders, leaving Armstrong and the others behind …
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The Bicycle Design blog has announced the winner in its “commuter bike for the masses” design competition, and it's the ThisWay bike designed by Torkel Dohmer.
Blogger James Thomas came up with the idea of a contest to ferret out some bicycle designs that would coax non-cyclists out of their cars and onto the bike lanes for commuting to work.
The lightweight bike would be made of composite materials and hydro-formed aluminum with built-in LED lights in the front and back powered by a battery that recharged by solar cells. There's also space for a briefcase on the back. And it has a roof …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/23/commuter-bicycle-design-contest-winner/
Torkel Dohmer won the commuter bike for the masses design concept contest at Bicycle Design blog.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/23/winning-commuter-bike-concept/
If the Guinness Book of World Records had a category for “bicycles parked by volunteer valets,” the Washington Area Bicycle Association would surely top the list.
The group set up free bike valet parking for the Barack Obama inauguration in the frigid temperatures on Tuesday and racked 2,040 bicycles.
Most importantly, no one lost a bike. Even a missing helmet was eventually recovered.
Of the two lots, the one at 16th Street was by far the busiest. Volunteers parked 1,127 bicycles at that location, which required them to create an overflow lot with crowd-control fencing. The Jefferson Memorial lot stored 827 bikes. …
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Australia's Allan Davis remained in control of the Tour Down Under after Stage 4 on Friday. The cyclist for Quick Step beat Thursday's winner Graeme Brown in the final sprint and held onto the race leader's ochre jersey for a third day.
Whether his dominance will survive two trips up Willunga Hill — the tour's toughest climb — on Saturday remains to be seen.
Some are saying that if Lance Armstrong, who sits 39 seconds out of 1st in 38th place, has any chance at all, it will be on the two climbs up Willunga on Stage 5. But other cyclists, like Aussie Stuart O'Grady in 4th place, are in a better position to make winning time on the stage …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/23/allan-davis-wins-sprint-keeps-lead-in-tour-down-under/
Lance Armstrong's bicycle, a Trek Madone 6.9, shortly after it arrived in Australia from the U.S. Shot by Lance Armstrong and posted on TwitPic.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/23/lance-armstrongs-trek-bicycle/
Check out this partial tentative roster for a bicycle race:
Lance Armstrong, George Hincapie, Tyler Hamilton, Floyd Landis, Levi Leipheimer, Christian Vande Velde.
It might read like the Farewell Tour for the Postal Service/Discovery revival team, but it's actually some of the cyclists who will probably ride (although on different teams) in the 2009 Tour of California bicycle race.
The Tour of California announced Thursday the nine pro continental and continental teams that will join the eight previously announced Pro Tour teams at the race, which runs Feb. 14 through Feb. 22..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/22/2009-tour-of-california-announces-17-teams/
Imagine living in a place where you're not breaking the law by rolling through an intersection without coming to a complete halt at a stop sign.
Residents in Idaho don't have to imagine it. They live in a state where lawmakers decriminalized stop sign-running 27 years ago. Now legislators in Montana will consider passing a similar law, and bike advocates in Oregon are seeking a similar law.
Bill Schneider at New West magazine reports that Robin Hamilton (D-Missoula) has proposed such a law. Schneider lays out the language here …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/22/montana-might-allow-bicycle-riders-to-slide-through-stop-signs/
Lance Armstrong seems to test himself with a new challenge everyday at the Tour Down Under. On Thursday's Stage 3, it was joining a fast 14-man breakaway for 50 miles that blew apart the overall race standings.
That breakaway didn't survive to the finish at Victor Harbor, however, where the Rabobank team delivered sprinter Graeme Brown across the line ahead of Wednesday's winner, Allan Davis.
Once again, Team Columbia's George Hincapie finished in 5th place for the second day in a row. Defending Tour champion Andre Greipel of Columbia, who won Stage 1, dropped out of the race after breaking his collarbone in a crash …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/22/graeme-brown-wins-stage-3-armstrong-in-long-breakaway/
Photo by Richard StirbaLast week's announcement that Denver would create a citywide bike-sharing program is the latest in a global transportation trend that's just catching on in the U.S.
More than 30 bike-share programs were launched globally last year, according to the Bike-Sharing blog. That's a 50% increase in one year.
The first bike-share program in the US was launched last year. That distinction goes to Washington DC, left, with its SmartBike DC program — 120 bikes at 10 stations — operated by Clear Channel advertising.
Denver is following up with a plan to make available 500 bicycles at 30 to 40 bike stations beginning in the summer. The program is being launched with a $1 million grant from Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee.
The bikes, which can be rented for a nominal fee, will be stationed around the business and university districts. The program will be called Denver B-cycle Citywide Bike Sharing Program…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/01/21/bike-sharing-explosion-denver-miami-beach-san-francisco-philadelphia-twin-cities-montreal-in-2009/
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