To my Canadian friends a Happy Canada Day to you. When the Tour de France begins this weekend, I believe Ryder Hesjedal of Team Garmin Slipstream will be the only Canadian at this race. This will be his second time racing the Tour de France. Canada’s National Vehicle Recycling Program announced a new initiative this […]
The U.S. Senator from New York, Charles Schumer, writes about exploring New York City by bicycle: I find that there is no better way to learn about what is going on in New York than by riding my bike through the neighborhoods and stopping and talking to people. I’ve loved riding a bike as long […]
Lee Crider is allegedly the guy who stole Lance Armstrong’s bike last February during the Tour of California. He was arrested on Tuesday. The guy who turned the stolen bike in to Sacramento police, Dung Le, apparently bought the bike from Crider. I’d love to know how much Le paid for the one of a […]
Local business owner and cycling fanatic Matt Twisselman is the Santa Cruz Local Organizing Committee for the 2009 Amgen Tour of California. He’s been trying to bring a stage to Santa Cruz since 2005 and finally succeeded for the 2009 race. Four years after Twisselman, 49, first thought the race might roll through Santa Cruz, […]
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons […]
Alison Chaiken rode over the weekend and visited The Bike Hut on Tunitas Creek Road. Alison wrote this of her visit: Yesterday I did the Pescadero-Tunitas coast ride with some buddies and we happened upon the Bike Hut, which is quite visible as you cycle along the bottom of Tunitas. Attached is a photo of […]