2010 archive
You better start practicing your bicycle jousting skills, your two-wheeled balance and your good humor as the New Belgium Brewery's Urban Assault Rides are coming to 13 cities in 2010.
Essentially, a two-person team sets out to visit 11 checkpoints around town to complete a challenge at each location. There's no route. The team to complete all 11 obstacles in the shortest time wins.
Three cities have been added to the Urban Assault Ride tour in 2010. The 13 are:
Tucson — April 18
Berkeley — May 2
Seattle — May 16
Portland — May 23
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Back in 1899, Charles Minthron Murphy achieved the incredible feat of pedaling his bicycle one mile in a minute by drafting behind a speeding train.
He's probably lucky that he wasn't killed. Since he survived the ordeal, he forever after became known as “Mile-a-Minute” Murphy.
Now the Town of Babylon, on New York's Long Island, would like to commemorate the event that happened there by putting Murphy's track bicycle on display.
The problem is that the bicycle is in storage at the Springfield (Massachusetts) Museums and they won't relinquish it, not even for the offer of $20,000 from Babylon.
At the time, Murphy's feat put Babylon on the map and celebrated human achievement ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/02/18/long-island-town-cant-get-historic-bike-in-spite-of-20k-offer/
Old photo of Charles Murphy attempting to set the 1-minute-mile mark in 1899.
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In 1899 Charles Murphy arranged to catch the slipstream of a speeding locomotive to cover a mile in under 60 seconds. More at Long Island History.com
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We might not like all the projects that the federal stimulus grants are funding, but it's cool to see some of the money going to build projects for bicycles.
Just today, the US Department of Transportation announced $1.5 billion in Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants. About $43 million of that, or 3%, will go directly to bicycle and pedestrian path networks in Philadelphia-Camden and Indianapolis.
In addition, portions of grants to rebuild bridges and create rail-transit hubs in other cities will be used for bicycle facilities. See all the projects.
The biggest TIGER grant to bicycling announced Wednesday was the $23 million that Philadelphia and Camden will share for a 16.3-mile network of biking and hiking paths to connect the two cities. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/02/17/your-federal-stimulus-dollars-pedaling-to-work/
Philadelphia bicycle network
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That family of five that set off last summer from Kentucky on a five-seater bicycle has hit the Pacific Coast. Now they're heading north to their Alaskan destination.
The Harrison family had pedaled nearly 4,000 miles to San Diego. They still have 3,000 miles to go before reaching Fairbanks.
To recap, Bill Harrison and his wife Amarins are traveling with their three girls, Cheyenne, 6, Jasmine, 4, and Robin, 3. They're riding a five-person yellow tandem and carrying their gear in a trailer. You can follow their adventures at Pedouin.com.
Theirs is quite an inspiring story for anyone preparing for a long bike trip. …
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The Harrisons pause while riding their yellow tandem. See more at the Pedouins.
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Here we go again.
The head of France's anti-doping agency says that a French judge has issued an international arrest warrant for Floyd Landis in a computer hacking case at the Chatenay-Malabry laboratory.
That's the lab that found elevated levels of testosterone in Landis's samples during the 2006 Tour de France and eventually led to his two-year banishment from professional cycling.
Landis is not being accused of hacking into the computers at the lab, according to what I've read. The judge, Thomas Cassuto, does want to question Landis about how the allegedly hacked files ended up being used in his defense, though …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/02/15/french-judge-issues-warrant-for-floyd-landis-in-hacking-caselandis-responds/
Every Sunday and holiday, some 70 miles of streets in Bogota, Colombia, are closed to motor vehicles, allowing bicycle riders, skaters and pedestrians to roam free.
That ciclovia-style celebration has been catching on in some U.S. cities, where a thoroughfare or city park is ruled car-free for one or more weekend days in the spring and summer.
Now, more U.S. cities are ready to join those that already make their streets more liveable for at least one day a year.
Planning its first ciclovia is Spokane, Washington. Among cities that have a history of ciclovia-style events are Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, New York City, San Jose, Kansas City and Chicago …
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