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The Los Angeles Times reports: Mayor Villaraigosa breaks elbow in bicycle accident July 17, 2010 | 10:20 pm Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa broke his elbow in a bicycle accident [...]
Humm, we think this piece speaks for itself.
On Friday, November 28, the Kitsap Sun reports: A bicyclist who blocked traffic in a Jack-in-the-Box drive-through on the 10000 block of Silverdale Way on Thursday was arrested on suspicion [...]
It’s September 19, and you know what that means… it’s Talk Like A Pirate Day! Pirates aren’t known for being cyclists. It’s harrrrrrrrrrrrd to pedal with a peg leg and [...]
UPDATE: We got a comment from someone claiming to be the driver’s mother. Points well taken. Sadly, many organizations have unthinkingly undermined society’s ability to provide help for those in [...]
Green browsers listed below work. Strikethrough Red don’t. PC Firefox 3.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer Opera 9.50 Safari 3.1.2 Mac Firefox 2.0.0.15 Please leave a comment with the name and version [...]
Boing Boing Gadgets reports: When it comes to bicycle safety, visibility is key. If you want to be safe, you should be lit up like a Christmas tree, with a [...]
International Herald Tribune: Study shows problems with Olympic-style tests Athletes who want to cheat by injecting themselves with a performance-enhancing drug that boosts their blood cell count can do so [...]
How often do you feel like Frazz?
A few weeks ago, some script kiddies thought of me and this website as a “six foot turkey” that they could hack and use to steer traffic to a malware [...]
We here at Bicycle.net have long been advocates of commuting by bike and anything to reduce pollution and to save on now-exorbitant gasoline costs. Not sure what to make of [...]
JT interviews Sean Tucker, owner of the Toyota United Pro Cycling Team, 24 April 2008. We know that JT stutters but we think that’s cool. Nothing stops him and he [...]
Sean Tucker, Owner of Toyota United Pro Cycling Team - Exclusive Bicycle.net Interview 24 April 2008 [ 17:36 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadGame theory helps to explain the pervasive abuse of drugs in cycling, baseball and other sports, says an article from the latest issue of Scientific American. In The Doping Dilemma, [...]
Tired of taunts of “like a fish without a bicycle” and “you run like an octopus”, Aquaman finally gets even… Related headline: Got Flood Insurance? Owners Urged To Be Ready
CBS Channel 2 in Los Angeles has video about the Los Angeles Police Department Bicycle Team riding 50 miles across the San Fernando Valley in honor of slain SWAT officer [...]
Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning “separation” or “being apart”. [SATIRE... sort of] Is it now accurate to use apartheid to describe a policy that exists in France in the [...]
As of 11pm Monday night January 21, this month’s Wired Magazine’s cover story had the following list: The Things That Suck. Why bring this to your attention? The last item [...]
OK, not all of us are aspiring Tour de France peloton-niks. Maybe some of our shallower friends use People magazine to determine what their exercise plans should be. Keeping it [...]
LAist reports: A More Bike Friendly LA On the Way? City councilman ed reyes of the first district wants to make los angeles more bike friendly and introduced a motion [...]
As I was fuming about Villaraigosa’s neglect of my city, I decided to play with the Google Trends tool and look for my home town of Los Angeles vis a [...]
Disclaimer… Bicycle.net‘s humorist and webmaster Velociraptor lives less than 200′ south of Pico Blvd. in Los Angeles and his office is on Olympic Blvd. The absentee mayor‘s proposal affects him [...]
Floyd Landis: Up the River Without a Pedal. Space for rent?
130mph? On a bike. Yeah… right. Yes, right! Enough with the news about Floyld Landis for a moment… gravity beats chemistry as Austrian rider Markus Stoeckl used a Chilean ski [...]
Gotta hand it to Floyd for plugging along…
Time to look back at our Top 5 Doping Excuses in Cycling
With the elimination of contenders coming fast and furious, I was inspired:
Appliance.net notes an exploding bike pump: RECALL: Combination Tire Inflator and Hand Pumps by Genuine Innovations.
I’ve got a confession. Until this year, I was a participatory cyclist, a civilian bike commuter, and not a spectator of the sport. Working alongside VeloGuy, that’s changed and I’ve [...]
Finally got around to adding nifty social linking buttons on the articles so those of you who are into Digg, Netscape, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Google Bookmarks and Socialogs can add your [...]
Cannondale Announces Recall of Mountain Bicycles; Lefty Forks Can Break Unexpectedly Name of Products: Mountain Bicycles with Lefty Speed SL and Lefty Speed DLR Forks Units: About 6,700 Manufacturer: Cannondale [...]
Giving your favorite cyclist a woodie has just taken on a new meaning. Wired and Gizmodo discuss a wood bicycle by Jano. Techchee brings us more wood gadgets. For the [...]
Laugh all you want… scoffers! See the evidence of 2006 Tour de France winning cyclist Floyd Landis scoffing at the Paris Hilton, yourselves! And is there any truth to the [...]
Floyd Landis, who won’t be competing in this year’s Tour de France, is unlikely to stay at the Paris Hilton, choosing to stay far from alcohol, EPO and other risky [...]
I wish I knew Latin better so I could find a word meaning “name change”. Maybe something like mutocognomen. Anyway, I got tired of calling myself bfntg and decided I [...]
Nine years ago, shortly after graduating with his MBA, my brother told the company that was hiring him that he wished to start his new position after he fulfilled a [...]
Trek unveils the new Madone.
Floyd Landis took 8th place at Sunday’s Teva Games time trials. The Aspen Times reports: His jersey was orange, not yellow. His tires were fat instead of skinny, and he [...]
The LA Times‘ Patrick Brady catches up with Bicycle.net reader Josh who wrote here Cycling Needs An Amnesty? – Doping No More – What Do You Say? days ago, showing [...]
My bike was stolen earlier this year. Cory over at BoingBoing and I share a fantasy: Oh, and my fantasy involves pain for the thief. Lots. Cory’s nicer than me. [...]
According to ESPN, 1996 Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis admits taking EPO and says he’s willing to give back his yellow jersey. “I have taken doping. I have taken [...]
In Giro Helmet Helps Saves Man Head When He Gets Run Over By Truck, we noted the story of a guy who brakes and flips over his handle bars and [...]
We have a word for people who can’t read, illiteracy. Years ago, mathematician John Allan Paulos wrote a book about the dangers of being mathematically illiterate and called it Innumeracy. [...]
Bloggerette Antigravitas bloviates on Monday: The Floyd Landis freak show Been following the Floyd Landis testosterone doping arbitration hearing? Boy, have you been missing some weird shit. Let me bring [...]
Valet Parking Now Offered For Santa Monica Bikes (AP) SANTA MONICA, Calif. Valet parking in Southern California is routine. But a new kind of service is catering to people who [...]
From the Floyd Fairness Fund.
We’re getting referrals from today’s Time Magazine article: Drama at Landis Doping Hearing. At the bottom of that TIME article, if you click Sphere Related Blogs & Articles, a nifty [...]
Most people don’t know that the political blog Little Green Footballs started off as a programming and cycling blog… until 9/11. LGF’s über-blogger Charles Johnson is a cycling nut. We [...]
Not what you’d expect from a combination of pro team sponsor The Discovery Channel and a bicycle. But fun and informative nevertheless. See The Wash Cycle.
… but you can’t make it downshift without a jockey pulley. Apparently from the Tour de France.
Sweet Bike Tricks
The LA Times reports an hour ago: Synthetic testosterone found in Landis’ “B” samples by Philip Hersh, Special to The Times 9:45 AM PDT, April 23, 2007 Evidence of synthetic [...]
Would you want to be anywhere near a bicycle used by or downwind of someone who used only one sheet of toilet paper? “only one square per restroom visit, except, [...]
Tons of typos in this news blurb which misses that it took place in Houston, Texas: Cyclist Landis raises more money for doping fight as tests go on Emabattled 2006 [...]
Aside from appreciating our wicked sense of humor and often linking to us, Trust But Verify is a key blog for coverage of the Floyd Landis doping allegations. Welcome to [...]
OK, I admit I have a dark sense of humor, but after getting chewed out in the comments for the previous video where children had non-serious bike accidents, I figured [...]
BREAKING HEADLINE: American cyclist Landis wants new tests at UCLA NEW YORK (Apr 13, 2007) The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency will test backup urine samples from Tour de France champion Floyd [...]
SRAM Corp. Recalls Bicycle Brake Caliper Sets Due to Crash Hazard WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a [...]
Disclaimer: Bicycle.net does NOT approve of allowing children to ride without proper safety gear. While in most clips in the above montage, the pratfalls were of adults, it seems that [...]
For Monty Python and cycling fans.
From Breitbart.Com via The Drudge Report and Little Green Footballs: Embattled Tour de France winner Floyd Landis received a boost in his fight against a positive doping test after French [...]
12 Mar 2007: Welcome About.com readers. Today’s Amgen Tour of California website asks Ian Lurie “Why the shaved legs”? Bicycle.net, ever on the cutting edge of bicycle blogging journalism got [...]
It’s Cycling Linkfest (Cyclinkfest) Friday VeloGuy is in Solvang today, so I’m doing the blogging for the early part of the day. As we see here in California during the [...]
Ivan Basso DNA test proven cleared Photos of Ivan Basso with Anna Nicole Smith neither confirmed nor denied by the staff of Bicycle.net. < / humor >
It’s Cycling Linkfest (Cyclinkfest) Friday Cash, drugs, sex and bikes Cyclicious’ Fritz comments on the quotation: “Bikes are one of the four commodities of the street — cash, drugs, sex, [...]
This Oscar-winning actress played a character named Judy in her first non-TV bike-themed movie. Name the actress and the movie in the comments. Nah… it’s not any of those, above.
It’s Cycling Linkfest (Cyclinkfest) Friday 2007 Ride The Rockies Bicycle Tour Route Announced Earthtimes.org – USA The Denver Post Ride The Rockies, presented by Wells Fargo, has announced the route [...]
I had a serious case of deja vu when I saw the new uniforms on the controversial Unibet.com cyclists: Oh, wait, that’s not them. CyclingNews reports Unibet’s win made a [...]
Copied shamelessly from Cycling Training Tips, a blog we’ll be referring to more frequently: Top 5 Doping Excuses in Cycling: Tyler Hamilton: “I have a twin that was never born. [...]
So I looked at the bicycle glossary, and I’ll admit I had different definitions: Attack: General Patton’s favorite word. Baby head: On top of baby neck. Block: What my kids [...]
Bicycle Pedals Recalled by Time Sport International Due to Fall Hazard Name of Product: Time RXS Titan Carbon, RXS Carbon, RXS and RXE Bicycle Pedals Units: About 18,000 Distributor/Importer: TIME [...]
What have I gotten myself into? Bicycle.net‘s owner and my friend, VeloGuy, has shamed me into considering doing my first triathlon. How bad is this? I’ll be 44 next month, [...]