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Best Cycling Headline This Week: Naked Woman Arrested after Bicyclist Hit
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 need of mental health care.
If you see this woman driving behind you while you’re riding your bike… flee.
Naked Woman Arrested after Bicyclist [...]
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- Olympic Cyclists Arrive Prepared for Beijing Air Pollution
August 5th, 2008The NY Times reports today that U.S. Cyclists Arrive in Beijing Wearing Masks:
After months of speculation about how Olympic athletes would react to the air quality problems here, some answers arrived at the airport Tuesday when four track cyclists on the United States Olympic team stepped off their flight wearing masks over their mouths and [...] - Browsing Miss Bicycle.net - Geek Griping
July 8th, 2008Green browsers listed below work. Strikethrough Red don’t.
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We’re also working hard to resolve the occasional downtime due to the fierce demand on our website during the Tour [...] - Bicycle Turn Signal Jacket
June 28th, 2008Boing 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 fluorescent, mile high afro like Sushi K. So I’m a tad skeptical of this DIY Turn Signal Biking Jacket. It’s a nice idea in theory, but [...] - Study: Olympic and Tour de France Enhanced Performance Drug Testing Flawed
June 26th, 2008International 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 with little risk of getting caught, a new study indicates, possibly exposing another flaw in what is regarded as the world’s toughest anti-doping program.
A urine [...] - Feeling Like Frazz
June 19th, 2008How often do you feel like Frazz?
- Velociraptor Chews Script Kiddies Who Attacked Bicycle.net
June 11th, 2008A 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 site. It pained me to see Google print the warning “this site may harm your computer”. No more. I found the small [...]
- Sign of the Times: Bicycle Drive-By Shooting
May 30th, 2008We 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 this bit of news from Milwaukee, today… Is it progress?
Milwaukee Police Investigate Bike-By Shooting
By Jon Byman
Milwaukee Police are investigating a case in which [...] - Sean Tucker, Owner of Toyota United Pro Cycling Team - Exclusive Interview
April 25th, 2008JT 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 thinks that nothing should stop the readers and listeners of Bicycle.net.
So do we.
Attitude is everything.
Sean Tucker, Owner of Toyota United Pro Cycling Team - Exclusive Bicycle.net Interview 24 April 2008 [17:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
- Scientific American: Game Theory, Doping and Cyclists
April 9th, 2008Game 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, key concepts are highlighted:
An alarming number of sports—baseball, football, track and field, and especially cycling—have been shaken by doping scandals in recent years.
Among the [...] - Photoshopping Today’s News: The Silver Lining of the Midwest Floods
March 20th, 2008Tired 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, 2008CBS 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 Randal Simmons.
Link to video.
Story from the Los Angeles Times:Thousands pay tribute to officer who touched — and saved — lives
The officer’s death hits a nerve. [...] - How Do You Say “Cycling Apartheid” in French? (SATIRE)
February 13th, 2008Apartheid 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 latter 20th and early 21st centuries? This system is used to mistreat and deny opportunity to superior non-French cyclists. The ASO allowed the French minority to [...] - Wired Magazine: Bicycles Among Top Things That Don’t Suck
January 22nd, 2008As 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 in the article is followed by a list of Things that don’t suck. Of these, as of this moment, bicycles came in 7th [...] - Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on Bicycles
December 25th, 2007OK, 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 light for the holidays, we bring you Brad and Angelina…Hooray [...]
- La La Land - Los Angeles to Become More Bike Friendly?
December 23rd, 2007LAist 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 that calls for dedicated bike paths, more bike lanes, and a bike rental programDedicated bike paths, more bike lanes, and bike rental programs, oh my!
KCBS2 is reporting [...] - La La Land… All Talk, No Pedal
November 27th, 2007As 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 vis cycling news.
It was too optimistic to hope for it to appear for LA to appear among the top 10 overall, or even [...] - Mayor Villaraigosa Tells Los Angeles: We Don’t Need No Steenkin’ Bike Lanes!
November 26th, 2007Disclaimer… 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 about as directly as it possible. I have young children, have lived in my house for 20 years, and now my street will [...]
- Landis: Almost Naked, Sent Up the River Without a Pedal
September 21st, 2007Floyd Landis: Up the River Without a Pedal.
Space for rent? - New Cycling Speed Record, With Video
September 20th, 2007130mph? 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 slope with a 45 degree drop to get up to speed. The 33-year-old broke the world record for downhill series mountain bikes [...] - Floyd Landis’ Baggage - HUMOR
September 20th, 2007Gotta hand it to Floyd for plugging along…
- Le Farce de France - Doping Excuses
July 26th, 2007Time to look back at our Top 5 Doping Excuses in Cycling
- SURVIVOR: Tour de France Edition [humor]
July 26th, 2007With the elimination of contenders coming fast and furious, I was inspired:
- Bike Pump Recall
July 23rd, 2007Appliance.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, 2007I’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 been developing my passion for the peloton. A big hurdle was learning the vocabulary of the velo world. I felt as [...]
- Bicycle .net - No Longer Anti-Social
June 25th, 2007Finally 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 fave bicycle.net articles where you like to hang out. Look for the buttons to the right of the comments link in every post.
If there’s [...] - Cannondale Recalls Mountain Bicycles - Breakable Lefty Forks
June 13th, 2007Cannondale 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 Bicycle Corp., Bethel, Conn.
Hazard: The forks can break during use causing the rider to lose control of the bicycle, fall and suffer serious injuries.
Incidents/Injuries: Cannondale has received [...] - Wood Bicycle
June 12th, 2007Giving 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 environmentally-minded bike fan, would (wood?) a biodegradable bicycle appeal to you? - Floyd Landis Scoffs At Paris Hilton: Pics!
June 10th, 2007Laugh 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 rumor that the troubled Miss Hilton will demand that a certain well-known French lab known for its incompetence test her specimens?
You want real news on the weekend? [...] - Floyd Landis to Paris Hilton: No!
June 8th, 2007Floyd 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 substances.
We at Bicycle.net think that Paris could evade the cops by hiding behind her bicycle.
OK, we’re sorry for that.
Sort of.
Not. - Nom de Bicycle Blog… Velociraptor
June 6th, 2007I 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 needed to call myself something more meaningful and relevant to cycling. So I’m re-introducing myself under my new nom de Bicycle blog, [...]
- Coast to Coast California Cycling Cops Create Cash to Combat Cancer
June 5th, 2007Nine 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 dream of riding his bicycle from coast to coast. He started in Santa Monica, dipping his rear wheel in the Pacific and ended in [...]
- Trek Madone
June 4th, 2007Trek unveils the new Madone.
- Floyd Landis - Back In The Saddle Again
June 4th, 2007Floyd 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 rode on a muddy dirt track instead of the purebred European asphalt that made him a global name.
But the sweat that poured off Floyd Landis’ forehead during [...] - Doping Deja Vu - A Call for Amnesty
May 30th, 2007The LA Times catches up with Bicycle.net partner Josh who wrote here Cycling Needs An Amnesty? - Doping No More - What Do You Say? days ago.
Lesson for our readers, see it here on Bicycle.net, first. Links and boldface added for emphasis, below.
Amnesty for doping cyclists
Encouraging riders to come clean with little punishment [...] - Bike Lock Fantasy
May 29th, 2007My 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.
What’s your bike lock solution or fantasy? - Tour de France Winner Willing to Return Yellow Jersey
May 25th, 2007According 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 EPO,” Riis said during a televised news conference. “I have made errors and I would like to apologize.”
Riis said he used the substances from 1993 [...]
- Follow-up: Cyclist’s Head Run Over By Truck
May 24th, 2007In 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 his luckily Giro-helmeted head is run over by a truck.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, here are a few thousand more:How this happens:
Of [...]
- We Need a Word Like Iscientificy to Go with Illiteracy, Innumeracy
May 23rd, 2007We 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. Amazon describes the book thusly (my boldface added for emphasis):
This is the book that made “innumeracy” a household word, at least in some households. Paulos [...] - Antigravitas, the Bloviating Cycling Non-Expert, on Floyd Landis
May 22nd, 2007Bloggerette 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 you up to speed.
1) July, 2006: Floyd Landis overcomes a devastating hip injury to win the Tour de France. Days later, one of his blood tests comes up [...] - LA Culture Comes to Bicycles - Velo Valet Service
May 21st, 2007Valet 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 need to park their bikes.
Santa Monica officials are hiring parkers to handle up to 350 bikes at the Sunday market.
Long Beach is offering full service parking for [...] - Monday Cycling Movie: Floyd Landis Video - Floyd Fairness Fund
May 21st, 2007From the Floyd Fairness Fund.
- Time, Sphere, Stones and Glass Houses
May 18th, 2007We’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 pop-up appears:It seems Sphere likes us… they really really like us, or at least our post LeMond Accuses Landis Camp of Harassment.
Here at Bicycle.net, where [...] - Floyd Landis Offerered Deal to Get Lance Armstrong
May 10th, 2007Most 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 like that in a blogger.
Whether or not you agree with LGF, right now, there’s a discussion on the latest Fox news Landis Was [...] - Discovery Channel Plus Bicycle Equals?
May 8th, 2007Not 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, 2007Sweet Bike Tricks
- BREAKING: Synthetic testosterone found in Landis’ “B” samples
April 23rd, 2007The 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 testosterone has been found in “several” of the other urine samples Floyd Landis gave while winning the 2006 Tour de France, the French newspaper L’Equipe reported on its website [...] - Rumor Mill: The Real Reason Lance Armstrong Left Sheryl Crow
April 22nd, 2007Would 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, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required”.
Maybe Lance Armstrong left Sheryl Crow for using only one sheet of toilet paper [...] - Landis Raising Funds in Houston to Fight Doping Charge
April 18th, 2007Tons 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 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis made a fundraising appearance at a suburban bicycle store here Tuesday even as retests of his doping samples were being done [...] - April’s Chain Link - Trust But Verify
April 17th, 2007Aside 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 the Cool Bicycle Blogs section of our links, TBV. - Monday Cycling Movie - Learning Bicycle Safety from Monkeys
April 16th, 2007OK, 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 I’d toss this out for your amusement. It runs just under 10 minutes but the expressions prior to the accidents are pure 1950’s kitsch… and [...]
- BREAKING: Floyd Landis Wants Retests at UCLA
April 13th, 2007BREAKING 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 Landis over the cyclist’s protests about the need for the tests and the credentials of the French lab where they’ll be analyzed.
Landis, who tested positive at last year’s [...] - Recall: SRAM Bicycle Brake Caliper Sets
April 13th, 2007SRAM 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 voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of product: SRAM Force Road Brake Caliper Sets
Units: About [...] - Monday Cycling Movie - Cycling’s Funniest Painful Home Videos
April 2nd, 2007Disclaimer: 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 there was no serious injury to any of the children. We hope that parents will see how easy it is to get [...]
- Monday Cycling Movie - Bicycle Repairman
March 5th, 2007For Monty Python and cycling fans.
- BREAKING: French Lab Errors Admitted in Cyclist Floyd Landis Case
February 23rd, 2007From 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 lab records showed a protocol violation.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the French laboratory which found the positive results against Landis had two technicians involved in [...] - Shaved Legs and Cycling — Ask Chewbacca
February 23rd, 200712 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 an exclusive interview with a famous cycling Wookie who breaks with tradition.
Why The Shaved Legs?
By Chewbacca (translated from Wookie using Babelfish)
Whenever I tell anyone that I [...] - Cyclinkfest Friday February 23, 2007
February 23rd, 2007It’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 Amgen Tour, cycling isn’t just an activity… it’s a community. A hard-core community. In the spirit of community, here are deserving shout-outs to some of [...] - DNA Tests Confirmed — Cyclist Ivan Basso Cleared!
February 16th, 2007Ivan 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, 2007It’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, and bikes. You can virtually exchange one for another.” — Victor Veysey, San Francisco bike mechanic, messenger, and chief of The Bike Hut.Bicycle buffer plan commands legislators’ serious [...]
- Tuesday Cycling Trivia
February 13th, 2007This 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.
- Add to Cycling Calendar: Ride the Rockies
February 11th, 20072007 Ride The Rockies Bicycle Tour Route Announced
DENVER, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ — The Denver Post Ride The Rockies, presented by Wells Fargo, has announced the route for its 22nd annual bicycle tour, June 17 - 23, 2007.
Two thousand cyclists will begin the 422-mile loop in Frisco, [...] - Cyclinkfest Friday February 9, 2007
February 9th, 2007It’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 for its 22nd annual bicycle tour, June 17 - 23, 2007.
Huntsville adventure racer set to cross America in 12-day race
Huntsville Forester - Huntsville,Ontario,Canada
Perhaps there is, but there can’t [...] - Holy Unibet Uniform Intellectual Property Rights Litigation, Batman!
February 8th, 2007I 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 strong statement after their inclusion in the race was threatened earlier this week. Just before the race, organizers granted permission for Unibet to take the start, but [...] - Top 5 Doping Excuses in Cycling
January 29th, 2007Copied 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. That’s why my blood contains a different blood type than my ownâ€
Floyd Landis: “I had some beers and whiskeys last night. I have a very high natural [...] - Newbie Looks at a Bicycle Glossary
November 16th, 2006So 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 like to stack.
Bottom bracket: Where Ivy League football teams are placed in the national rankings.
Bridge: Card game.
Bunny-hop: Not quite as much fun as the Hokey Pokey.
Carbon fiber: What [...] - RECALL: Bicycle Pedals Recalled by Time Sport International
November 8th, 2006Bicycle 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 SPORT INTERNATIONAL/ATAC 2001 Inc., of Montecito, Calif.
Hazard: The pedal’s bearing cap can fail causing the pedal to come off the bicycle. This poses a fall hazard for riders.
Incidents/Injuries: [...] - Triathlon Diary - T Minus 3 Weeks
September 25th, 2006What 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, I’m 6 feet tall and hover in the low 270 poind range. I’ve chosen the handle bfntg — short for Big [...]
