Kevin Foster rides his bike on the Great Wall of China in 1990. Soon to be a major motion picture?
2010 archive
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Charity bike ride in Blaine, WA, raises funds for leukemia victim
A high school junior is organizing a charity bicycle ride for this Saturday up in Blaine on the Canadian border to raise funds for a family whose daughter is undergoing treatment for leukemia.
Olivia Sellinger pitched in to help when she heard that Jessica Walters, her 3-year-old neighbor, had been diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia, a cancer of the blood or bone marrow. Sellinger used to babysit for Jessica.
When she heard that Jessica was undergoing chemotherapy at Children's Hospital in Seattle, Sellinger began raising money to help offset the family's medical bills and launched plans for the “Ride for the Warrior Princess” bike ride …
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Jessica Walters
Cancer victim in Blaine, Washington
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Michigan bicycle touring club raises money to repave road
One of the biggest misconceptions held by members of the motoring public — especially when they relate to bicyclists — is that they own the road because they pay for it.
Not true. Road construction and maintenance is paid for by a myriad of taxes, of which gasoline taxes are only one part. In fact, most cyclists also own cars, so they pay their fair share of gas taxes as well.
One place where motorists won't be making that argument, however, is Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the Ann Arbor Bicycle Touring Society raised funds to help pay for a road repaving on a popular bicycling road ….
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Huron River Drive
Ann Arbor, Michigan, roadway will be repaired with help of bicycle club's funds.
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Cover of Cascade Bicycle Club report
Ranks Seattle's neighbors for bicycle friendliness.
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Scorecard evaluates bicycle-friendliness of Seattle's neighbors
We all know that Seattle is one of the top bicycling cities in the US, usually ranked near the top with the likes of Portland, Boulder and Minneapolis on the lists for “best 10 cities for bicyclists.”
But how do Seattle's neighboring cities rank?
The Cascade Bicycle Club set out to determine that and published its results in a six-page publication — Puget Sound Bicycle Scorecard — released this week.
The top city was Kirkland, followed closely by Redmond and Renton. Bringing up the bottom of the list were Federal Way and Shoreline. ….
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Bellevue Bike to Work Day
Bellevue helped staff this station at the base of the Bellevue-Mercer Island I-90 bridge for Bike to Work Day.
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Precious – the bicycle that posts Tweets as it travels cross-country
I can ride my bike with no handlebars, but I can't write and send a Twitter message while I pedal along.
But Janeen McCrae can.
That's because McCrae rides Precious, a bicycle that's been outfitted with sensors and electronics that enable it to send out Tweets with the push of a button. Actually, McCrae and Precious collaborate on the Twitter messages.
McCrae is riding Precious from coast-to-coast on Adventure Cycling's TransAmerica Bicycle Route to raise money for the Livestrong Foundation ….
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Leapin' Levi! Leipheimer wins 'torturous' Leadville 100
Leave it to the guy who's never competed on a mountain bike before to win one of the premier off-road bike races in the U.S.
Levi Leipheimer won the Leadville 100 mountain bike race on Saturday, setting a new course record in the process. His RadioShack teammate and defending champion, Lance Armstrong, didn't race due to injuries sufferd in the Tour de France.
Listening to his comments after the race, it sounds like the 36-year-old left it all out on the 100-mile Rocky Mountain route that ranges between 9,000 and 13,000 feet.
“Twenty miles to go, I didn't care if I was an hour behind or a half an hour ahead, I just wanted to get it done …. It was just torturous. …..
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