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• Got Meds?
  May 23rd, 2009
  

  Humm, we think this piece speaks for itself.

• Jack-In-The-Box Goes “Chicken Strips Nazi” At Cyclist?
  December 1st, 2008
  

  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 [...]

• Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a Pirate’s Bike For Me
  September 19th, 2008
  

  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 [...]

• Best Cycling Headline This Week: Naked Woman Arrested after Bicyclist Hit
  August 11th, 2008
  

  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 [...]

• Browsing Miss Bicycle.net – Geek Griping
  July 8th, 2008
  

  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 [...]

• Bicycle Turn Signal Jacket
  June 28th, 2008
  

  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 [...]

• Study: Olympic and Tour de France Enhanced Performance Drug Testing Flawed
  June 26th, 2008
  

  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 [...]

• Feeling Like Frazz
  June 19th, 2008
  

  How often do you feel like Frazz?

• Velociraptor Chews Script Kiddies Who Attacked Bicycle.net
  June 11th, 2008
  

  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 [...]

• Sign of the Times: Bicycle Drive-By Shooting
  May 30th, 2008
  

  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 [...]

• Sean Tucker, Owner of Toyota United Pro Cycling Team – Exclusive Interview
  April 25th, 2008
  

  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 | Download
• Scientific American: Game Theory, Doping and Cyclists
  April 9th, 2008
  

  Game 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, [...]

• Photoshopping Today’s News: The Silver Lining of the Midwest Floods
  March 20th, 2008
  

  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

• LAPD Bicycle Team Rides in Honor of Slain SWAT Officer Randal Simmons (LINK to VIDEO)
  February 17th, 2008
  

  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 [...]

• How Do You Say “Cycling Apartheid” in French? (SATIRE)
  February 13th, 2008
  

  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 [...]

• Wired Magazine: Bicycles Among Top Things That Don’t Suck
  January 22nd, 2008
  

  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 [...]

• Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on Bicycles
  December 25th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• La La Land – Los Angeles to Become More Bike Friendly?
  December 23rd, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• La La Land… All Talk, No Pedal
  November 27th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Mayor Villaraigosa Tells Los Angeles: We Don’t Need No Steenkin’ Bike Lanes!
  November 26th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Landis: Almost Naked, Sent Up the River Without a Pedal
  September 21st, 2007
  

  Floyd Landis: Up the River Without a Pedal. Space for rent?

• New Cycling Speed Record, With Video
  September 20th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Floyd Landis’ Baggage – HUMOR
  September 20th, 2007
  

  Gotta hand it to Floyd for plugging along…

• Le Farce de France – Doping Excuses
  July 26th, 2007
  

  Time to look back at our Top 5 Doping Excuses in Cycling

• SURVIVOR: Tour de France Edition [humor]
  July 26th, 2007
  

  With the elimination of contenders coming fast and furious, I was inspired:

• Bike Pump Recall
  July 23rd, 2007
  

  Appliance.net notes an exploding bike pump: RECALL: Combination Tire Inflator and Hand Pumps by Genuine Innovations.

• Tour Fever – The Armchair Cyclist’s Guide to the Tour de France (Book Review)
  June 26th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Bicycle .net – No Longer Anti-Social
  June 25th, 2007
  

  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 Recalls Mountain Bicycles – Breakable Lefty Forks
  June 13th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Wood Bicycle
  June 12th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Floyd Landis Scoffs At Paris Hilton: Pics!
  June 10th, 2007
  

  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 to Paris Hilton: No!
  June 8th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Nom de Bicycle Blog… Velociraptor
  June 6th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Coast to Coast California Cycling Cops Create Cash to Combat Cancer
  June 5th, 2007
  

  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 Madone
  June 4th, 2007
  

  Trek unveils the new Madone.

• Floyd Landis – Back In The Saddle Again
  June 4th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Doping Deja Vu – A Call for Amnesty
  May 30th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Bike Lock Fantasy
  May 29th, 2007
  

  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. [...]

• Tour de France Winner Willing to Return Yellow Jersey
  May 25th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Follow-up: Cyclist’s Head Run Over By Truck
  May 24th, 2007
  

  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 Need a Word Like Iscientificy to Go with Illiteracy, Innumeracy
  May 23rd, 2007
  

  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. [...]

• Antigravitas, the Bloviating Cycling Non-Expert, on Floyd Landis
  May 22nd, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• LA Culture Comes to Bicycles – Velo Valet Service
  May 21st, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Monday Cycling Movie: Floyd Landis Video – Floyd Fairness Fund
  May 21st, 2007
  

  From the Floyd Fairness Fund.

• Time, Sphere, Stones and Glass Houses
  May 18th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Floyd Landis Offerered Deal to Get Lance Armstrong
  May 10th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Discovery Channel Plus Bicycle Equals?
  May 8th, 2007
  

  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.

• Monday Cycling Movie – You Can Lead a Horse to the Peloton…
  May 7th, 2007
  

  … but you can’t make it downshift without a jockey pulley. Apparently from the Tour de France.

• Monday Cycling Movie – Sweet Bike Tricks
  April 30th, 2007
  

  Sweet Bike Tricks

• BREAKING: Synthetic testosterone found in Landis’ “B” samples
  April 23rd, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Rumor Mill: The Real Reason Lance Armstrong Left Sheryl Crow
  April 22nd, 2007
  

  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, [...]

• Landis Raising Funds in Houston to Fight Doping Charge
  April 18th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• April’s Chain Link – Trust But Verify
  April 17th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Monday Cycling Movie – Learning Bicycle Safety from Monkeys
  April 16th, 2007
  

  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: Floyd Landis Wants Retests at UCLA
  April 13th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Recall: SRAM Bicycle Brake Caliper Sets
  April 13th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Monday Cycling Movie – Cycling’s Funniest Painful Home Videos
  April 2nd, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Monday Cycling Movie – Bicycle Repairman
  March 5th, 2007
  

  For Monty Python and cycling fans.

• BREAKING: French Lab Errors Admitted in Cyclist Floyd Landis Case
  February 23rd, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Shaved Legs and Cycling — Ask Chewbacca
  February 23rd, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Cyclinkfest Friday February 23, 2007
  February 23rd, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• DNA Tests Confirmed — Cyclist Ivan Basso Cleared!
  February 16th, 2007
  

  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 >

• Cyclinkfest Friday February 16, 2007
  February 16th, 2007
  

  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, [...]

• Tuesday Cycling Trivia
  February 13th, 2007
  

  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.

• Cyclinkfest Friday February 9, 2007
  February 9th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Holy Unibet Uniform Intellectual Property Rights Litigation, Batman!
  February 8th, 2007
  

  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 [...]

• Top 5 Doping Excuses in Cycling
  January 29th, 2007
  

  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. [...]

• Newbie Looks at a Bicycle Glossary
  November 16th, 2006
  

  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 [...]

• RECALL: Bicycle Pedals Recalled by Time Sport International
  November 8th, 2006
  

  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 [...]

• Triathlon Diary – T Minus 3 Weeks
  September 25th, 2006
  

  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, [...]