You are currently browsing the Bicycle Touring & More. Other outdoor activity weblog archives for the day Thursday, May 17th, 2007.
Our Bikecentennial guidebook calls this the rolling Piedmont of Louisa and Hanover counties. Contemplating the issue of gravity on the porch of Kent’s Store, I decided I’m carrying too much stuff.
These might be called rollercoaster hills, but they aren’t as much fun as an amusement park. I speed downhill at top speed, cross a creek, then begin the uphill …
The Giro d’Italia returned to a bike race for the sprinters on Thursday as Germany’s Robert Forster (Gerolsteiner) won by charging out the pack and holding off Thor Hushovd in Frascati.
Italian cyclist Danilo Di Luca held onto the pink leader’s jersey; cyclists for the Liquigas team have held onto the overall lead for the entire bike race so far.
The 107-mile Stage 5 routed the peloton from Teano to the outskirts of Rome with a fairly level course that saw just one climb. …
The San Francisco Bay Area celebrates Bike to Work Day today. I’m struck by a group of remarkable bike commuters and especially one in particular.
She is Kerri Kazala, 47, of Mill Valley who pedals 50 to 60 miles a day roundtrip to her job at a medical treatment center in Daly City.
She is one of nine bike commuters honored from each of the Bay Area’s nine counties as Bike Commuters of the Year. More about those bicycle commuters and San Francisco Bay Area Bike to Work Day is available at the 511.org website. …
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