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- Jack-In-The-Box Goes “Chicken Strips Nazi” At Cyclist?
December 1st, 2008On Friday, November 28, the Kitsap Sun reports:
A bicyclist who blocked traffic in a Jack-in-the-Box drive-through on the 10000 block of Silverdale Way on Thursday was arrested on suspicion of [...] - Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a Pirate’s Bike For Me
September 19th, 2008It’s September 19, and you know what that means… it’s Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Pirates aren’t known for being cyclists. It’s harrrrrrrrrrrrd to pedal with a peg leg and [...] - Best Cycling Headline This Week: Naked Woman Arrested after Bicyclist Hit
August 11th, 2008UPDATE: We got a comment from someone claiming to be the driver’s mother. Points well taken. Sadly, many organizations have unthinkingly undermined society’s ability to provide help [...]
- Olympic Cyclists Arrive Prepared for Beijing Air Pollution
August 5th, 2008The NY Times reports today that U.S. Cyclists Arrive in Beijing Wearing Masks:
After months of speculation about how Olympic athletes would react to the air quality problems here, some answers [...] - Browsing Miss Bicycle.net – Geek Griping
July 8th, 2008Green browsers listed below work. Strikethrough Red don’t.
PC
Firefox 3.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Opera 9.50
Safari 3.1.2Mac
Firefox 2.0.0.15Please leave a comment with the name and version of your browser if not listed above, [...]
- Bicycle Turn Signal Jacket
June 28th, 2008Boing Boing Gadgets reports:
When it comes to bicycle safety, visibility is key. If you want to be safe, you should be lit up like a Christmas tree, with a fluorescent, [...] - Study: Olympic and Tour de France Enhanced Performance Drug Testing Flawed
June 26th, 2008International Herald Tribune: Study shows problems with Olympic-style tests
Athletes who want to cheat by injecting themselves with a performance-enhancing drug that boosts their blood cell count can do so [...] - Feeling Like Frazz
June 19th, 2008How often do you feel like Frazz?
- Velociraptor Chews Script Kiddies Who Attacked Bicycle.net
June 11th, 2008A few weeks ago, some script kiddies thought of me and this website as a “six foot turkey” that they could hack and use to steer traffic to a malware [...]
- Sign of the Times: Bicycle Drive-By Shooting
May 30th, 2008We here at Bicycle.net have long been advocates of commuting by bike and anything to reduce pollution and to save on now-exorbitant gasoline costs. Not sure what to [...]
- Sean Tucker, Owner of Toyota United Pro Cycling Team – Exclusive Interview
April 25th, 2008JT interviews Sean Tucker, owner of the Toyota United Pro Cycling Team, 24 April 2008.
We know that JT stutters but we think that’s cool. Nothing stops him and he [...]
Sean Tucker, Owner of Toyota United Pro Cycling Team - Exclusive Bicycle.net Interview 24 April 2008 [17:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
- Scientific American: Game Theory, Doping and Cyclists
April 9th, 2008Game theory helps to explain the pervasive abuse of drugs in cycling, baseball and other sports, says an article from the latest issue of Scientific American. In The Doping [...]
- Photoshopping Today’s News: The Silver Lining of the Midwest Floods
March 20th, 2008Tired of taunts of “like a fish without a bicycle” and “you run like an octopus”, Aquaman finally gets even…
Related headline: Got Flood Insurance? Owners Urged To Be Ready - LAPD Bicycle Team Rides in Honor of Slain SWAT Officer Randal Simmons (LINK to VIDEO)
February 17th, 2008CBS Channel 2 in Los Angeles has video about the Los Angeles Police Department Bicycle Team riding 50 miles across the San Fernando Valley in honor of slain SWAT officer [...]
- How Do You Say “Cycling Apartheid” in French? (SATIRE)
February 13th, 2008Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning “separation” or “being apart”.
[SATIRE... sort of]
Is it now accurate to use apartheid to describe a policy that exists in France in the latter [...] - Wired Magazine: Bicycles Among Top Things That Don’t Suck
January 22nd, 2008As of 11pm Monday night January 21, this month’s Wired Magazine’s cover story had the following list: The Things That Suck.
Why bring this to your attention? The last [...] - Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on Bicycles
December 25th, 2007OK, not all of us are aspiring Tour de France peloton-niks. Maybe some of our shallower friends use People magazine to determine what their exercise plans should be.
Keeping it [...] - La La Land – Los Angeles to Become More Bike Friendly?
December 23rd, 2007LAist reports:
A More Bike Friendly LA On the Way?
City councilman ed reyes of the first district wants to make los angeles more bike friendly and introduced a motion that calls [...] - La La Land… All Talk, No Pedal
November 27th, 2007As I was fuming about Villaraigosa’s neglect of my city, I decided to play with the Google Trends tool and look for my home town of Los Angeles vis a [...]
- Mayor Villaraigosa Tells Los Angeles: We Don’t Need No Steenkin’ Bike Lanes!
November 26th, 2007Disclaimer… Bicycle.net’s humorist and webmaster Velociraptor lives less than 200′ south of Pico Blvd. in Los Angeles and his office is on Olympic Blvd. The absentee mayor’s proposal affects [...]
- Landis: Almost Naked, Sent Up the River Without a Pedal
September 21st, 2007Floyd Landis: Up the River Without a Pedal.
Space for rent? - New Cycling Speed Record, With Video
September 20th, 2007130mph? On a bike. Yeah… right. Yes, right!
Enough with the news about Floyld Landis for a moment… gravity beats chemistry as Austrian rider Markus Stoeckl used a [...] - Floyd Landis’ Baggage – HUMOR
September 20th, 2007Gotta hand it to Floyd for plugging along…
- Le Farce de France – Doping Excuses
July 26th, 2007Time to look back at our Top 5 Doping Excuses in Cycling
- SURVIVOR: Tour de France Edition [humor]
July 26th, 2007With the elimination of contenders coming fast and furious, I was inspired:
- Bike Pump Recall
July 23rd, 2007Appliance.net notes an exploding bike pump: RECALL: Combination Tire Inflator and Hand Pumps by Genuine Innovations.
- Tour Fever – The Armchair Cyclist’s Guide to the Tour de France (Book Review)
June 26th, 2007I’ve got a confession. Until this year, I was a participatory cyclist, a civilian bike commuter, and not a spectator of the sport. Working alongside VeloGuy, that’s changed [...]
- Bicycle .net – No Longer Anti-Social
June 25th, 2007Finally got around to adding nifty social linking buttons on the articles so those of you who are into Digg, Netscape, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Google Bookmarks and Socialogs can add your [...]
- Cannondale Recalls Mountain Bicycles – Breakable Lefty Forks
June 13th, 2007Cannondale Announces Recall of Mountain Bicycles; Lefty Forks Can Break Unexpectedly
Name of Products: Mountain Bicycles with Lefty Speed SL and Lefty Speed DLR Forks
Units: About 6,700
Manufacturer: Cannondale Bicycle Corp., Bethel, [...] - Wood Bicycle
June 12th, 2007Giving your favorite cyclist a woodie has just taken on a new meaning.
Wired and Gizmodo discuss a wood bicycle by Jano.
Techchee brings us more wood gadgets.
For the environmentally-minded bike [...] - Floyd Landis Scoffs At Paris Hilton: Pics!
June 10th, 2007Laugh all you want… scoffers!
See the evidence of 2006 Tour de France winning cyclist Floyd Landis scoffing at the Paris Hilton, yourselves!And is there any truth to the rumor that [...]
- Floyd Landis to Paris Hilton: No!
June 8th, 2007Floyd Landis, who won’t be competing in this year’s Tour de France, is unlikely to stay at the Paris Hilton, choosing to stay far from alcohol, EPO and other risky [...]
- Nom de Bicycle Blog… Velociraptor
June 6th, 2007I wish I knew Latin better so I could find a word meaning “name change”. Maybe something like mutocognomen. Anyway, I got tired of calling myself bfntg and [...]
- Coast to Coast California Cycling Cops Create Cash to Combat Cancer
June 5th, 2007Nine years ago, shortly after graduating with his MBA, my brother told the company that was hiring him that he wished to start his new position after he fulfilled a [...]
- Trek Madone
June 4th, 2007Trek unveils the new Madone.
- Floyd Landis – Back In The Saddle Again
June 4th, 2007Floyd Landis took 8th place at Sunday’s Teva Games time trials.
The Aspen Times reports:
His jersey was orange, not yellow. His tires were fat instead of skinny, and he rode on [...] - Doping Deja Vu – A Call for Amnesty
May 30th, 2007The LA Times‘ Patrick Brady catches up with Bicycle.net reader Josh who wrote here Cycling Needs An Amnesty? – Doping No More – What Do You Say? days ago, showing [...]
- Bike Lock Fantasy
May 29th, 2007My bike was stolen earlier this year. Cory over at BoingBoing and I share a fantasy:
Oh, and my fantasy involves pain for the thief. Lots. Cory’s nicer [...]
- Tour de France Winner Willing to Return Yellow Jersey
May 25th, 2007According to ESPN, 1996 Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis admits taking EPO and says he’s willing to give back his yellow jersey.
“I have taken doping. I have taken [...]
- Follow-up: Cyclist’s Head Run Over By Truck
May 24th, 2007In Giro Helmet Helps Saves Man Head When He Gets Run Over By Truck, we noted the story of a guy who brakes and flips over his handle bars and [...]
- We Need a Word Like Iscientificy to Go with Illiteracy, Innumeracy
May 23rd, 2007We have a word for people who can’t read, illiteracy.
Years ago, mathematician John Allan Paulos wrote a book about the dangers of being mathematically illiterate and called it Innumeracy. [...] - Antigravitas, the Bloviating Cycling Non-Expert, on Floyd Landis
May 22nd, 2007Bloggerette Antigravitas bloviates on Monday:
The Floyd Landis freak show
Been following the Floyd Landis testosterone doping arbitration hearing? Boy, have you been missing some weird shit.
Let me bring you up to [...] - LA Culture Comes to Bicycles – Velo Valet Service
May 21st, 2007Valet Parking Now Offered For Santa Monica Bikes
(AP) SANTA MONICA, Calif. Valet parking in Southern California is routine.
But a new kind of service is catering to people who need to [...] - Monday Cycling Movie: Floyd Landis Video – Floyd Fairness Fund
May 21st, 2007From the Floyd Fairness Fund.
- Time, Sphere, Stones and Glass Houses
May 18th, 2007We’re getting referrals from today’s Time Magazine article: Drama at Landis Doping Hearing.
At the bottom of that TIME article, if you click Sphere Related Blogs & Articles, a nifty [...] - Floyd Landis Offerered Deal to Get Lance Armstrong
May 10th, 2007Most people don’t know that the political blog Little Green Footballs started off as a programming and cycling blog… until 9/11. LGF’s über-blogger Charles Johnson is a cycling nut. [...]
- Discovery Channel Plus Bicycle Equals?
May 8th, 2007Not what you’d expect from a combination of pro team sponsor The Discovery Channel and a bicycle.
But fun and informative nevertheless.
See The Wash Cycle. - Monday Cycling Movie – You Can Lead a Horse to the Peloton…
May 7th, 2007… but you can’t make it downshift without a jockey pulley.
Apparently from the Tour de France.
- Monday Cycling Movie – Sweet Bike Tricks
April 30th, 2007Sweet Bike Tricks
- BREAKING: Synthetic testosterone found in Landis’ “B” samples
April 23rd, 2007The LA Times reports an hour ago:
Synthetic testosterone found in Landis’ “B” samples
by Philip Hersh, Special to The Times
9:45 AM PDT, April 23, 2007
Evidence of synthetic testosterone has been found [...] - Rumor Mill: The Real Reason Lance Armstrong Left Sheryl Crow
April 22nd, 2007Would you want to be anywhere near a bicycle used by or downwind of someone who used only one sheet of toilet paper?
“only one square per restroom visit, except, of [...] - Landis Raising Funds in Houston to Fight Doping Charge
April 18th, 2007Tons of typos in this news blurb which misses that it took place in Houston, Texas:
Cyclist Landis raises more money for doping fight as tests go on
Emabattled 2006 Tour de [...] - April’s Chain Link – Trust But Verify
April 17th, 2007Aside from appreciating our wicked sense of humor and often linking to us, Trust But Verify is a key blog for coverage of the Floyd Landis doping allegations.
Welcome to the [...] - Monday Cycling Movie – Learning Bicycle Safety from Monkeys
April 16th, 2007OK, I admit I have a dark sense of humor, but after getting chewed out in the comments for the previous video where children had non-serious bike accidents, I figured [...]
- BREAKING: Floyd Landis Wants Retests at UCLA
April 13th, 2007BREAKING HEADLINE:
American cyclist Landis wants new tests at UCLA
NEW YORK (Apr 13, 2007)
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency will test backup urine samples from Tour de France champion Floyd Landis over the [...] - Recall: SRAM Bicycle Brake Caliper Sets
April 13th, 2007SRAM Corp. Recalls Bicycle Brake Caliper Sets Due to Crash Hazard
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary [...] - Monday Cycling Movie – Cycling’s Funniest Painful Home Videos
April 2nd, 2007Disclaimer: Bicycle.net does NOT approve of allowing children to ride without proper safety gear. While in most clips in the above montage, the pratfalls were of adults, it [...]
- Monday Cycling Movie – Bicycle Repairman
March 5th, 2007For Monty Python and cycling fans.
- BREAKING: French Lab Errors Admitted in Cyclist Floyd Landis Case
February 23rd, 2007From Breitbart.Com via The Drudge Report and Little Green Footballs:
Embattled Tour de France winner Floyd Landis received a boost in his fight against a positive doping test after French lab [...] - Shaved Legs and Cycling — Ask Chewbacca
February 23rd, 200712 Mar 2007: Welcome About.com readers.
Today’s Amgen Tour of California website asks Ian Lurie “Why the shaved legs”?
Bicycle.net, ever on the cutting edge of bicycle blogging journalism got an [...] - Cyclinkfest Friday February 23, 2007
February 23rd, 2007It’s Cycling Linkfest (Cyclinkfest) Friday
VeloGuy is in Solvang today, so I’m doing the blogging for the early part of the day.
As we see here in California during the Amgen Tour, [...] - DNA Tests Confirmed — Cyclist Ivan Basso Cleared!
February 16th, 2007Ivan Basso DNA test proven cleared
Photos of Ivan Basso with Anna Nicole Smith neither confirmed nor denied by the staff of Bicycle.net.
< / humor > - Cyclinkfest Friday February 16, 2007
February 16th, 2007It’s Cycling Linkfest (Cyclinkfest) Friday
Cash, drugs, sex and bikes
Cyclicious’ Fritz comments on the quotation:
“Bikes are one of the four commodities of the street — cash, drugs, sex, and bikes. You [...] - Tuesday Cycling Trivia
February 13th, 2007This Oscar-winning actress played a character named Judy in her first non-TV bike-themed movie.
Name the actress and the movie in the comments.Nah… it’s not any of those, above.
- Add to Cycling Calendar: Ride the Rockies
February 11th, 20072007 Ride The Rockies Bicycle Tour Route Announced
DENVER, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ — The Denver Post Ride The Rockies, presented by Wells Fargo, has announced the [...] - Cyclinkfest Friday February 9, 2007
February 9th, 2007It’s Cycling Linkfest (Cyclinkfest) Friday
2007 Ride The Rockies Bicycle Tour Route Announced
Earthtimes.org – USA
The Denver Post Ride The Rockies, presented by Wells Fargo, has announced the route for its 22nd [...] - Holy Unibet Uniform Intellectual Property Rights Litigation, Batman!
February 8th, 2007I had a serious case of deja vu when I saw the new uniforms on the controversial Unibet.com cyclists:
Oh, wait, that’s not them.
CyclingNews reports
Unibet’s win made a strong statement [...] - Top 5 Doping Excuses in Cycling
January 29th, 2007Copied shamelessly from Cycling Training Tips, a blog we’ll be referring to more frequently:
Top 5 Doping Excuses in Cycling:Tyler Hamilton: “I have a twin that was never born. That’s why [...]
- Newbie Looks at a Bicycle Glossary
November 16th, 2006So I looked at the bicycle glossary, and I’ll admit I had different definitions:
Attack: General Patton’s favorite word.
Baby head: On top of baby neck.
Block: What my kids like to stack.
Bottom [...] - RECALL: Bicycle Pedals Recalled by Time Sport International
November 8th, 2006Bicycle Pedals Recalled by Time Sport International Due to Fall Hazard
Name of Product: Time RXS Titan Carbon, RXS Carbon, RXS and RXE Bicycle Pedals
Units: About 18,000
Distributor/Importer: TIME SPORT INTERNATIONAL/ATAC 2001 [...] - Triathlon Diary – T Minus 3 Weeks
September 25th, 2006What have I gotten myself into? Bicycle.net’s owner and my friend, VeloGuy, has shamed me into considering doing my first triathlon. How bad is this? I’ll be [...]