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ADOT State Highway Bicycle Safety Action Plan.


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bicycle, safety

Published July 19, 2010 at 10:24 a.m.

This showed up in my inbox today from Prairiejean with the request that we all “Please take the time to send in this survey, very easy and important to state your needs and count as a part of improvements.”From the website:The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) is developing a State Highway Bicycle Safety Action Plan [ ... ] ...

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Cycling Shorts : 18 July 2010


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andy schleck, astana's, cycling, doping, lance armstrong, lemond, livestrong, nutcase, trek, uci, video

Published July 18, 2010 at 2:56 a.m.

Lots to report on in today's shorts ... 1. The doping saga continues : The truth is out there ... TREK and Lemond have been subpoenaed this past week! The NY Daily News is at the height of their game, reporting on the minute-by-minute news in the doping drama with great finesse. Yesterday, the German newspaper Sueddeutsche had published mindblowing details of an interview with Lemond. Among the things Lemond told journalist Andreas Burkert was that Armstrong had vowed to pay $300,000

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In Seattle


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bicycle, bike, bike shop

Published July 18, 2010 at 1:11 a.m.

We arrived in Seattle in preparation of riding STP (Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic) tomorrow ... Dave and I biked to dinner and also to a local bike shop ... Details on the reason for the bike shop to come later ... BIKE ... LIFECYCLE ... ROLLERS ... TOTAL ... Today ... 6 ... 0 ... 0 ... 6 ... Jan ... 618 ... 0 ... 0 ... 618 ... Feb ... 692 ... 0 ... 0 ... 692 ... March ... 940 ... 0 ... 5 ... 940 ... April ... 934 ... 0 ... 0 ... 934 ... May ... 905 ... 0 ... 0 ... 905 ... June ... 1152

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The Quiet Goombah


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alberto contador, amstel gold race, cycling, gilles mas, jan ullrich, lance armstrong's, liege-bastogne- liege, paris-nice, photos, uci

Published July 17, 2010 at 2:41 p.m.
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"The former Soviet state of Kazakhstan is the size of Western Europe, and is not so much of its own country as its own planet, a vast sameness of boreal forests and grasslands, boiling in summer and frozen in winter, a land the Soviets found ideal for growing wheat and testing nuclear bombs - 470 tests between 1949 and 1989, most of them thoughtfully done on Sundays, so as not to disrupt the happy productivity of the proletariat. The ensuing years have only added to its charms : the

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Our car


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bicycle, bike, commute, cycle

Published July 17, 2010 at 2:10 a.m.
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Some readers may be surprised to learn that we own a car. After all, we don't write much about it, and I've occasionally mentioned how I'm not a particularly enthusiastic driver ... While we own a car, we don't actually use it much. Really, really, not much, at all ... We bought our car from a German who moved near our old home in Cambridge. He wanted a right hand drive car, and we thought a left hand drive car sounded ideal for after we'd emigrated. So we bought it from him and drove it

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Give Cateye Credit for Effort


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bike, commute, components, cycle, cycling, road bike, time

Published July 16, 2010 at 7:04 p.m.
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After much looking at fancy, heart rate bike computers and GPS stuff, I elected to keep life simpler, and I purchased a “Cateye Commuter” for Buddy. I moved the “Cateye Vectra Wireless” from Buddy to the road bike, where it replaces the now-disgraced worthless French bike computer. The “Commuter” is a new model that came out this spring from Cateye, and it is intended specifically for bike commuters. It lacks expensive gewgaws such as cadence, heart rate, and computer download

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Secret Training Camp (day five)


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bike, bike path, helmet, look, seat, time, training

Published July 16, 2010 at 11:43 a.m.
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One word. Epic ... After trying to get to the Bearskin trail for several days yesterdays cross ride will be one that I remember for along time. After adding up the mileage including the miles to get there and back I knew I was on the longest ride of the summer, rolling in with 65 miles. Just a few miles more than the other day. But what I did not add up so well is the time. I knew my average speed would be a bit down from a road ride but I had no idea I was going to roll back to the cabin with 4

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The Tour De France At The Jeanie Johnston Pub


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bike, bike shop, tour de france, wheels

Published July 16, 2010 at 10:48 a.m.

Jeanie Johnston Pub (144 South Street, Jamaica Plain) is Boston’s Tour de France 2010 headquarters! Every night through July 25, watch the Tour at the Pub from 8-11pm.Ferris Wheels Bike Shop hosts two special Party Nights on Tuesday, July 13 and Tuesday, July 20 (8-11pm) during grueling high mountain stages. Party Nights feature:+ Tour de [ ... ] ...

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Bike lanes, bike bans, bike paths, bike bells


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Published July 16, 2010 at 9:00 a.m.

Happy Friday! I think those of us who ride on a mix of roads and bike facilities already know that bike lanes seem to encourage more dangerous passing behavior by motorists. A study by Leeds and Bolton universities in England backs this up: Researchers mounted a camcorder on the rear rack of a bicycle and [ ... ]Related posts: Safety and bike bans Separated bike lanes proposed for S.F. Market Street Ride all of the City’s bike paths ...

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Bike path deal upsets Army-Navy Country Club members


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Published July 16, 2010 at 7:00 a.m.
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Opposition to public bicycle paths can come from unusual sources in unexpected places ... For instance, the prospect of a public bike path running alongside a corner of the members-only Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington, Virginia, has some of its members up in arms ... Fourteen of the active and retired military commissioned officers at the club are suing the club's board of directors for letting such a proposal go through ... A Navy captain said: ... "Once the word gets out to the younger

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