Tour de France Stage 11 spoilers below the photo of Andy Schleck in the Yellow Jersey during Stage 11.

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The NYPD officer who was caught on video bodyslamming Christopher Long and convicted of falsifying a criminal complaint on Long was sentenced by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley.

The prosecution asked for prison time plus probation for the felony conviction. Pogan’s defense asked for community service. Judge Maxell Wiley gaven Pogan… nothing. No sentence. No punishment.

“The defendant doesn’t need any further supervision by the court and the verdict is conditional discharge, period,” said Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley.

Read more: Patrick Pogan, NYPD cop who pushed a Critical Mass cyclist to the ground, gets no jail time.

Believe it or not, some conservatives actually opposed the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956 because — get this — this largest public works project in American history represented “another ascent into the stratosphere of New Deal jitterbug economics.”

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Ad agency Colle+McVoy created this print ad as part of Bikes Belong’s Bike to Work Week promotion in the Spring of 2010. I’m a bike nerd, so I see a chainring tattoo on a great pair of legs and think “Cool.” What do you see?

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One of the videos from the Yoxi cycling promotion competition.

The team that created this video writes of themselves:

We are three non-bikers trying to convince ourselves (and you!) to hit the road. !ola is Ozge “do tricycles count?” Kirimlioglu, Liesje “refuses to make a left” Hodgson, and Angela “can’t remember her last tune-up” Chen. Do we have what it takes to learn the rules of the road? Will we survive the bike-across-the-Williamsburg-bridge-without-stopping challenge? More importantly, can we convince a few high-powered executives, stay-at-home-moms, and devoted fashionastas to give biking a try too? Follow our blog and find out.

P.S. Don’t forget the Cookbook giveaway!

UPDATE: The winner is Bruce A via Twitter. Congratulations!

The Athlete’s Plate: Real Food for High Performance from Velopress is a guide and cookbook with easily prepared recipes by professional chef and endurance athlete Adam Kelinson.

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