Fort Lewis College, a small college with a bike cycling program in Durango, Colorado, dethroned Lees-McRae College to win the 2007-2008 USA Cycling Collegiate National Team Rankings Division I competition by a single point.
In Division II, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology defeated Western Washington University in another tight race.
Lees-McRae, a private North [...]

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Italian cyclist Leonardo Piepoli said he had “denied everything” following his doping hearing with the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) on Thursday.
Piepoli was heard just a day after his former Saunier-Duval teammate Ricardo Riccò, who admitted to using EPO.
Riccò was kicked out of the Tour de France earlier this month after failing a dope test following [...]

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Doomtree released their first full-length, full-crew album yesterday, and in preparation for their sure-to-be-monumental release show at First Avenue this Friday night, they posted this sweet new music video on YouTube:…

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posted by caffeinatedcyclist Via CNN NewsSeveral times a year, 55-year-old Dave Schweidenback can be found prepping large shipments of used bicycles bound for a developing country. For Schweidenback, gathering and breaking down these bikes is a labor of love — one that is helping to keep the bikes out of landfills and give them new [...]

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I bought a bicycle this past weekend. It’s actually been on my mind for some time, so I took it as a sign that I needed a bike when Westminster Council kindly installed a bike rack on the street outside my flat. Their decision almost justifies my £30/month share of the council tax. The cycle [...]

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Tubes, tubulars or NoTubes?Dear Lennard,I’m currently running Campy 10-speed and am interested in running Hutchinson Tubeless Tires. It appears that the only officially approved system is the Shimano Dura-Ace wheelset, which is obviously not an option for me. My question is will a wheelset with rims that do not have pierced spoke holes on the [...]

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Not the cheapest bike on the market, but the Rasmus Gjesing ATB Tourist bicycle certainly offers some originality. Rasmus Gjesing founded his bicycle company 12 years ago, offering an alternative to mass-produced cycles, with quality being the key selling point….

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Swiss bicycle manufacturer BMC has started doing something radically different when it comes to their bicycle line; they are offering bespoke bicycles. Using 3D motion capture technology from New York’s Organic Motion, and a bank of ten high speed cameras, BMC will be able to map the bodies of potential riders and create a bike [...]

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World women’s road champion Marta Bastianelli has tested positive for a banned stimulant in a test conducted by the International Cycling Union (UCI), Italian news agency Ansa reported on Monday.
Bastianelli tested positive for the stimulant in a control run by the International Cycling Union (UCI) during the Under-23 World Championships at Verbania on July 5, [...]

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Carlos Sastre became the seventh Spaniard to win the Tour de France yellow jersey when he wrapped up overall victory on Sunday, taking his country’s total to 11 wins.
Wins by country after 95 editions
36: France
18: Belgium
11: Spain
10: United States
9: [...]

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01:31 PM: Good day and welcometo VeloNews.com’s Live Coverage of the 21st - and final - stage of the 95th Tour de France, a 143-kilometer ride from Etampes to the classic Tour finish on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
Following the only long transfer of this Tour (about 240km), this final stage starts south of Paris in [...]

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Niagara Falls Ontario Canada

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Seattle police arrested two men for their part in the assault on a motorist who became entangled in an apparent bicycle protest late Friday.

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12:51 PM: Good day and welcometo VeloNews.com’s Live Coverage of the 19th stage of the 95th Tour de France, a short 165.5-kilometer race from Roanne to Montlucon.
Except for two minor climbs in the Monts de la Madeleine range during the opening hour of racing out of Roanne (population 40,000), there are mainly flat roads on [...]

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Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen said Friday he will appeal the decision of a Utrecht court that awarded him 665,000 euros ( million) against his former Rabobank team for the way he was kicked off their 2007 Tour de France squad.
The 34-year-old, who instituted proceedings for unlawful dismissal demanding damages of 5.5 million euros, was thrown [...]

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Can we really trust the government of the country to a man who chains his bicycle to a bollard so short that a thief can just lift the whole chain over the top and walk off with the bike?

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Filed under: transportation hacks , daily [Che-Wei Wang] has a few more projects up his sleeve aside from his pneumatic power suit . This is a bit artsy, but he created an ultraviolet ink dropper to leave a trail of invisible ink wherever he rides his bike. Just think of it as a modernized version [...]

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posted by davidmcduffEarlier this year, I dreamed up the idea of writing a daily wine and/or spirits post that would follow the daily path of the Tour de France. Those good intentions never came to fruition, as the time necessary to map out the course and lay out the plans for what to cover [...]

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posted by carper
Here’s the promised catch report from Jonathans previous blog and a nice suprise, read on.
 
“I arrived at the lake at about 5pm to find the sun shining on the water and a light wind blowing from the NW. I header straight for the sheltered and weedy “back bay” as I had a feeling [...]

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Man, and I thought that bicycles are meant to make you break out in a sweat to help keep those pounds off as you attack uphills and slopes, but once again technology is here to make life easy with the Automatic Transmission Electric Bicycle . This is the electric bicycle that uses automatic transmission to [...]

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