Stage 17 of the Tour de France tomorrow will feature the famous Alpe de Wheeze. You can visit this alpine meadow virtually through Google Streetview. The Alpe d’Huez, which has hosted a Tour de France stage almost every year since 1976, is probably the most famous mountain climb of the Tour de France, which large […]
Roger Kramer, the Missouri Bicycle Federation, and others report that the local non-profit that operates the Chain of Rocks Bridge in St. Louis does not have funding to keep the bridge open. The Chain of Rocks bridge used to be part of the old U.S. Route 66. The bridge was closed in 1970, and after […]
Bike Library on Palo Alto city council agenda tonight The Palo Alto city council will discuss a proposal to ask city staff to study the feasibility of a bike sharing system for Palo Alto. Several councilors and the mayor of Palo Alto recently sat in on a presentation about the Library Bike system in place […]
Stunt cyclists in San Francisco in a Japanese soft drink commercial for Kirin Beverage’s Millenium METs soda. METs is a grapefruit flavored beverage. I’ll need to run to my local Japanese supermarket and see if they carry it. Urban Velo. Urban Velo and Streetsblog also mentioned this old news about the proposed “Idaho stop law” […]
KWC has grabbed the domain name Cyclodro.me for his robotic Tour de France link harvester that currently resides at velo.kwc.org. He intends eventually to expand his application to collect links for other bike races. It’s already wonderfully useful, especially if you don’t have cable TV.
I’ve uploaded photos from the July “Beach Party” Ride to Flickr. Enjoy!. Ahpook was there with his son, along with a couple other people I see around town and about a hundred other people I met for the first time last night.