Six days into our TransAmerica bike tour, and we’re already taking our first day off. The first five days have been a shakedown cruise — the last days of training and the first of our trip. I feel that our journey begins in earnest tomorrow.
After lolling around our hostess’ apartment for a while, we boxed up some clothes to send back home. I sent back an extra sweater and other clothes that only filled space and added weight to my panniers. …
This hardly ever happens, but sometimes the breakaway does stay out in front until the finish line.
Two cyclists celebrated that rare good luck on Stage 6 of the Giro d’Italia on Friday, when Colombia Luis Felipe Laverde (Ceramica) won the stage and Italian Marco Pinotti (T-Mobile) took the leader’s pink jersey.
It marks the first time in the 2007 that a member of the Liquigas team — primarily Danilo Di Luca — didn’t don the pink jersey at the end of the day. Di Luca sits in 3rd place overall, 4-minutes-12 in back of Pinotti …
Sunny skies, crisp temperatures. What’s not to like about a bicycle ride on a day like Friday in the Puget Sound, even if you are commuting to work?
Thousands of cyclists took to the streets in the Puget Sound this morning to participate in the 2007 Bike to Work Day.
The Cascade Bicycle Club was looking for 10,000 people to ride to work. Cities across the nation were looking at similar numbers on a day when gasoline prices set a record for the fourth straight day. …
Floyd Landis wanted a full and open hearing to defend the accusations that he doped during the Tour de France so the public could judge the veracity of the evidence against him.
What viewers got on Thursday was a tawdry peep show that had little relevance to the accusations, but revealed much about the depths that each side would sink to gain an advantage.
It happened when three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond was called to testify about a phone call he’d had with Landis soon after the doping allegations surfaced last year. …
Recalling the previous post, we were in “God’s country“. The view from the top is always better, and this one is no exception. It was green everywhere, although there were few trees, far apart and small, indicating they were young and therefore not the original growth covering this land.
It was good to see that […]
Posted by admin on 18 May 2007 at 11:17 am under Cycling | Link
It looks like Friday’s Bike to Work Day weather forecast in the Puget Sound calls for sunny skies with a 100% chance of spinning bike tires.
You can check for weather updates here (and this being Seattle, I encourage it), but there’s no rain forecast until early Saturday. Temperatures range from a low of around 45 Friday morning to highs in the 60s during the day with increasing clouds.
If you plan to join the projected 10,000 people who will bike to work on Friday in the Puget Sound area, here are some things to check…..
