Giro d'Italia is May 9-31, 2009
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Mark your calendars: The 2010 edition of the Amgen Tour of California is scheduled for May 16-23.
This change could be a good or a bad thing. The race previously has been scheduled for a week in February for its first four years.
Good: May is a much more weather-friendly month in California than February. In fact, a couple of stages in the past two years have been downright miserable.
Bad: The dates put it smack dab in the middle of next year's Giro d'Italia, which has been the cycling world's focus in May for decades …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/07/2010-tour-of-california-will-be-raced-in-may/
A Seattle-based outdoors magazine is offering a new Norco bicycle as first prize to the person who tells the best bicycle commuting story — in 300 words or less.
The publishers of Outdoors NW are looking for real-life bicycle commuting experiences from the Northwest:
“Stories may include your experiences about your first bike commute, why you decided to start commuting, your best – or worst – commuting day, your rainiest commute, how it helped you get in shape, how it changed your life, etc. Stories may be funny, sad, contemplative … anything goes…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/06/best-pacific-northwest-bike-to-work-story-wins-a-new-bike/
Commuter style bicycle built by Canadian bicycle distributor Norco is first prize in Northwest bicycle commuting essay contest. See rules at OutdoorsNW.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/06/norco-vfr-v-brake-3/
That failed sprint up Pinos Altos in the Tour of the Gila last Sunday must have sent the message to Lance Armstrong that he's not ready to win the 3-week Giro d'Italia that starts on Saturday.
In a dramatic turnaround, the 7-time Tour de France winner announced Tuesday that he'll ride in support of Astana teammate Levi Leipheimer, the 3-time winner of the Tour of California and winner of last week's Tour of the Gila.
Armstrong had said early in his comeback season that he wanted to race to win the Giro; it would be his first appearance in bike race around Italy. But a broken collarbone suffered in a crash at the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon in March delayed his training …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/05/armstrong-to-work-for-leipheimer-at-giro-ditalia/
Are you lucky enough live in a Bicycle Friendly Community?
The League of American Bicyclists named 13 more cities to its esteemed list, bringing the number nationwide to 108.
And as an added bonus, the League named four states — Washington and Wisconson (silver) and Arizona and Minnesota (bronze) — to its newly launched Bicycle Friendly State program.
Here are the 13 new states on the Bicycle Friendly Community list …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/04/13-new-bicycle-friendly-communities-named/
You might think the odds that someone could beat Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer in an uphill stage finish are about the same as a 50-1 horse winning the Kentucky Derby.
Well, Mine That Bird won at Churchill Downs on Saturday and Phil Zajicek, 30, won the final stage of the Tour of the Gila in New Mexico on Sunday.
Leipheimer and Armstrong, teammates on Mellow Johnny's bike shop team for this year, did finish 1st and 2nd overall in the five stage Gila bike race; Zajicek finished in 3rd overall …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/03/leipheimer-and-armstrong-finish-1st-and-2nd-at-tour-of-the-gila/
Bicyclists who achieve the Eastern Continental Divide on the Great Allegheny Passage this year will be rewarded with murals of historical scenes from the trail.
The murals, by artist Wayne Fettro, are installed on the rail-trail underpass of MacKenzie Hollow Road in Pennsylvania.
The picture above is just one of dozens of photos that make up a 3D viewing experience at PhotoSynth.net.
The four panels grace both sides of the east and west entrances of the underpass at the 2,392-foot elelvation summit for the trail in Somerset County …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/03/picturing-the-history-of-gap-bicycle-trail-in-pennsylvania/
Murals by artist Wayne Fettro are posted at both entrances to the Eastern Continental Divide tunnel on the Great Allegheny Passage. This view is captured from a 3D view at Photosynth.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/03/mural-on-eastern-continental-divide/
Back in the years before I moved to the Pacific Northwest, a rainy day like today would have kept me indoors. Not anymore.
Here's a small club ride I ran into along rolling May Valley Road between Issaquah and Newcastle on Saturday morning.
Why do you find so many bicyclists out on a rainy day on the first weekend of May? Here are some reasons:
— If you're going to ride your bike here, you have to do a lot of riding in the rain. I never heard this saying until I got here: “There's no bad weather for bicycling, only bad gear.” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/02/why-the-rain-doesnt-stop-bicycling-in-pacific-northwest/
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