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Our first day on the TransAmerica bicycle route started with butterflies in our stomachs, a flurry of goodbyes, and a frantic search for a campground that no longer existed.
My bicycling buddy Bruce and I unpacked the car at the Yorktown Victory Monument, a park that commemorated the surrender of Gen. Cornwallis at the end of the Revolutionary War. You could say it marked the end of the road for the British, and the beginning for us.
The cycling world might be beset by countless doping inquiries, but for a few moments on the island of Sardinia on this Mother’s Day Sunday, everything seemed as it should be.
The Giro d’Italia peloton had chased down a five-man breakaway with about 3 miles to go in the 126-mile stage from Tempio Pausania to Bosa, and the sprinters were lining up.
Italian sprinter Allesandro Pettachi sits behind his leadout riders from Milram, whose speed stretch out the peloton. Taking advantage of the situation are Robbie McEwen (Predictor-Lotto) sitting on Pettachi’s back wheel and Paolo Bettini (QuickStep) sitting in McEwen’s slipstream …
Saturday was the first day this year that Seattle closed a 4-mile stretch of Lake Washington Boulevard to car traffic so bicyclists could ride free and safe along the lakefront road (see schedule below for more dates).
I pedaled over and saw all stripes of cyclists taking advantage of the car-free day — called Group Health Bicycle Saturday & Sunday – provided through the cooperation of Seattle Parks and Rec, Group Health, and the Cascade Bicycle Club.
Several were strong riders, stumbling upon it by accident, as they incorporate this stretch into their loops around the lake. But the majority were slower recreational bicycle riders …
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