An anti-government uprising in his home country of Nepal convinced Pushkar Shah to ride his bicycle around the world to spread the message of peace.
Now, Shah plans to scale the slopes of Mount Everest to plant the flags of the 150 countries he visited on his 11-year journey.
Shah ended his 135,000-mile world tour ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/08/around-the-world-bicyclist-aims-to-climb-mt-everest/
A round-up of some spring cycling news:
Tyler Farrar
Wenatchee, Washington's Tyler Farrar claimed his second victory of the year at the Grote Scheldeprijs in Belgium on Wednesday.
The 122-mile bike race from Antwerp to Schoten is a flat route that pretty much designed for a sprint finish. Farrar became the first American ever to win the race, and beat the likes of Australia's Robbie McEwen (Team Katusha), Germany's Robert Forster (Team Milram), and New Zealand's Greg Henderson (Sky pro cycling).
In the video above, you can see Farrar just blasting past Belgium's Tom Boonen …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/08/horner-2nd-in-basque-farrar-wins-sprint-flu-beats-armstrong/
Nepal's Pushkar Shah poses in Beirut. He's traveled all over the world in the past 11 years.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/08/pushkar-shah-in-beirut/
Pasadena is no longer the starting city for Stage 6 of the 2010 Tour of California.
California's state road department (Caltrans) notified the organizers about winter damage to the Angeles Crest Highway (Route 2) above La Cañada Flintridge that created potential safety hazards to racers and spectators who will line the route.
The Tour is searching for a city to …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/08/pasadena-is-out-as-start-for-stage-6-of-tour-of-california/
For the bicycle touring crowd, this is as close as it gets to something like a release party for Apple's iPad.
More than 200 bicyclists showed up on Tuesday night for the unveiling of the Sierra Cascade Bicycle Route, the newest map set produced by the Adventure Cycling Association.
The 2,400-mile bicycle route connects Canada and Mexico via paved roads roughly along the corridor of the Pacific Crest. The 5-map set will be available at the end of April.
The bicycle route marks Adventure Cycling's achievement of creating more than 40,000 miles of bicycle routes …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/07/new-sierra-cascades-bicycle-route-unveiled-in-seattle/
Three cities in the Pacific Northwest landed among the top five of Bicycling Magazine's list of Top 50 Bike-Friendly cities, but Minneapolis took the Number 1 spot.
In spite of winter conditions that many wouldn't consider conducive to bicycling, Minneapolis got the nod because of its active bicycle culture and the doubling of bike commuters in just a 3-year-period.
Rounding out the Top 5 are Portland, Oregon (#2), Boulder, Colorado (#3), Seattle (#4, at left) and Eugene, Oregon (#5).
The region also ranked high among cities under 100,000 population. The top 5 are Davis, California (#1), Corvallis, Oregon (#2), Bellingham, Washington (#3) …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/06/bicycling-magazine-names-top-50-cities-for-riding-a-bicycle/
Toronto police pulled four large transport trucks into a community center parking lot on Monday and began unloading 1,000 bicycles that will be fixed up and distributed to youth in the area.
But that's not even half of the stolen-bike haul made by police who in 2008 began investigating Igor Kenk, dubbed the most prolific bicycle thief in Canada's history.
In all, police confiscated 2,200 to 2,900 bicycles that Kenk had squirreled away around the city. About 1,000 of those bikes were returned to their owners.
Among those showing up at the center for the unloading — Igor Kenk …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/06/does-toronto-bike-giveaway-end-bike-theft-saga/
Relesased by Pop Sandbox on May 1.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/06/kenk-a-graphic-portrait/
Organizers of the 2010 Tour of California announced on Tuesday the 16 pro cycling teams that will compete in the 5th annual week-long race that rolls out from May 16 – 23.
All the usual suspects are here, including top US teams RadioShack, HTC-Columbia, Garmin-Transitions, and BMC Racing.
Because the California race organizers moved the event from February to May, many of the teams will be splitting their squads between the Tour of California and the three-week Giro d'Italia which runs at the same time.
RadioShack was not invited to the Giro, so its stars Lance Armstrong and defending champ Levi Leipheimer are expected to compete in California in May ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/06/16-cycling-teams-announced-for-2010-tour-of-california-bike-race/
A 45-year-old British bicyclist and bar owner set off from Thailand last week in an attempt to smash the around-the-world bicycling record by shaving more than two months off the current best time.
Alan Bate proposes to accomplish the 18,000-mile journey in 99 days, eclipsing the fastest time of 165 days set by Julian Sayarer, 23, just last year.
The feat requires that Bate ride his bicycle an average 180 miles a day, compared to the 109 miles a day ridden by Sayarer last year.
The past couple of years have seen many attacks on the bicycling record to circumnavigate the globe — all by British bicyclists.
The standing Guinness World Record holder is still Scotland's Mark Beaumont …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/05/british-bicyclist-on-a-quest-to-circle-the-globe-in-99-days/
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