2011 archive
As expected, the Ride from Seattle to Vancouver and Party was the first Cascade Bicycle Club bicycling event to sell out when registration opened at noon Monday.
What wasn't expected, however, was a breakdown in the ride registration process this year. Many people waited hours to register for the highest-demand rides, only to be shut out of the system and have to start over again, according to complaints at the Cascade forum.
Apparently, the sudden influx of registrants at noon on Monday bogged down the registration system for hours this year, the first time Cascade tried to handle it in-house. Executive director Chuck Ayers apologized to members for the snafu (see below). …
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Next week's 2011 Santos Tour Down Under might be the last hurrah for Lance Armstrong as a competing cyclist on foreign soil, but there are plenty of other hot shots traveling to Australia to make the competition interesting.
Those interested in tracking the live action will have to remember there are some confusing time zone calculations to make. I've tried to sort them out here.
Keep in mind that the Australia is 15-1/2 hours ahead of ET and 18-1/2 hours ahead of PT. That creates some mental juggling to keep track of times here in the US and on TV….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/01/10/sorting-out-the-2011-tour-down-under-bike-race-schedule/
My mother told me never to play with my food, but I couldn't resist after cooking up a batch of bicycle pasta last night.
Most of the pastas cooked up white, but one out of 20 or 30 turned out red. That reminded me of the maglia rosa at the Giro d'Italia, so I recreated this 2010 scene on my plate of Ivan Basso leading the peloton.
I'm no Graham Watson; this is the best I could come up with. Later I tossed this gruppetto into a bowl, stirred in some chopped garlic, parmesan cheese, vinegar, and a dash of chain oil ….
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Update: Jan. 14, 2011 — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood cites this study in urging bicycle advocates to “participate in the process” to get adequate funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects
How can Congress and other public officials put more Americans back to work? For starters, they could choose to increase funding for bike lanes and bike boulevards.
A study of some public works projects in Baltimore came up with the surprising results that bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure projects create more employment per $1 million of spending than road repair and resurfacing projects.
No one is suggesting that repairing our deteriorating road and highway network is a waste of effort. But I don't think many people realized that spending on bike lanes and boulevards gets a bigger bang for the buck when it comes to employment …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/01/07/creating-more-jobs-through-bicycle-projects/
News of the Weird: Black Hawk, Colorado, isn't the only town on Earth to ban bicycle riding. Half a world away, there's a village in India where people are forced to walk their bikes.
The ban was instituted about 40 years ago in the village of Vilvamarathupatti, located in Tamil Nadu near the southern tip of the Indian peninsula.
According to the ExpressBuzz.com story “Still no bicycle pedaling in this village”, some kids were racing on their bicycles and struck some boys playing in the street, causing some injuries. ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/01/06/black-hawk-co-isnt-the-only-town-that-bans-bicycle-riding/
City fathers made the decision 40 years ago.
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The prospect of huge truckloads of oil industry equipment using rural roads frequented by traveling bicyclists in Idaho and Montana has drawn the opposition of the Adventure Cycling Association.
Beginning this year, what has been termed megaloads of oil exploration and refining equipment may begin rolling out from Lewiston, Idaho, on Highway 12 in Idaho and Montana, and Highway 200 in Montana.
How big are these megaloads? They are at least 3 stories high, at least 200 feet long and more than 24 feet wide — that's wider than the roads they'll use. They'll be rolling down parts of three scenic and popular bicycle routes — the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail, Lewis & Clark Bicycle Trail, and the Great Parks North Bicycle Route …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/01/05/adventure-cycling-opposes-oil-gas-megaloads-on-scenic-bicycle-routes/
An example of the size of the megaload heading to the ConocoPhillips refinery in Billings.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/01/05/megalload-big-rig/
From New York Times.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/01/05/detail-of-megaload-routes/
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