Tyler Hamilton for Rock Racing during the 2009 Tour of California Prologue in Sacramento. Hamilton was scheduled to race in this week’s Vuelta Castilla y León stage race but pulled out because of bronchitis, according to Rock Racing. Francisco Mancebo took Hamilton’s place as team leader for Rock Racing. Other nonsense that I originally published […]

Lance Armstrong looks like a hurt puppy in this video from Spanish television. In case you haven’t heard, Armstrong crashed in a big pileup on a sketchy road on the first day of the Vuelta a Castilla y León. He broke his collarbone and was carted away in an ambulance. He’s on the mend and […]

54 mph is the fastest I’ve ever gone on a bicycle. This personal record was wind and gravity assisted on St. Vrain Road in Boulder County, Colorado as I zoomed east toward Longmont out of the Rocky Mountain foothills from Highway 36. If I recall correctly, the speed limit on St. Vrain Road is 40 […]

One of the problems with the Caltrain bike cars is cyclists often don’t know if there are one or two bike cars. There’s Twitter/Bikecar, but less than 10% of riders follow that services. It’s difficult spotting the second bike car from the usual waiting place for cyclists on the train platform. One of the announcements […]

Last year, folding bike designer Mark Sanders applied the Blue Ocean marketing strategy in which he compares the international bike market to a big blue ocean of potential. There’s a small red ocean of bike enthusiasts where the major bike oceans direct all of their efforts. Mark makes the case that the bike industry should […]

A little while back, the California Association of Bicycling Organizations people discussed this article in The Inland Daily Bulletin in which columnist Michelle Pearl asks the local CHP for the Final Word on traffic law for cyclists. A retired police officer “took umbrage” at an earlier statement about the legality of riding side by side […]