Bike World News

Bikes Belong, in partnership with the LAB and with support from REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.), announced this year’s REI/Bicycle Friendly Community Grant Awards

The final list of 20 teams for the 15th edition of the Tour de Langkawi from March 1 to 7 has been confirmed with Kelly Benefit Services completing the line-up.

After sponsoring the Nature Valley Grand Prix pro stage race for ten years, they will expand their involvement to sponsor the overall Minnesota Bike Festival in 2010.

Tour de Fat, New Belgium Brewing’s traveling celebration of all things bicycle, raised more than $276,000 for bike advocacy groups during the 2009 season.

Featuring 27 events and nearly one million dollars in overall prize payouts, the 2010 National Racing Calendar (NRC) was announced today by USA Cycling.

Round 1 of ASA Entertainment’s Big Air BMX Triples played out last night before an enthusiastic Orange County crowd and measured up to everyone’s expectations.

Team Type 1’s Jacquelyn Crowell is the only competitor sharing her behind-the-scenes observations and experiences from start to finish at the Nature Valley Grand Prix. Through four stages, she leads the APC Best Young Rider competition (for racers younger than 26) and is 14th overall, 1:19 off the lead.

Team Type 1’s Jacquelyn Crowell shares her observations from Stage 3 of the Nature Valley Grand Prix. She leads the best young rider competition.

The second stop of the ASA Action Sports World Tour (ASA ASWT) had as many thrills and spills and unexpected twists and turns as a NASCAR race when the first Skateboard Vert and Big Air BMX Triples contests of the season took place tonight at Target Center in Minneapolis. Twenty-two athletes took to the ramps – 10 skateboarders and 12 bikers – to start paving their way toward this year’s Action Sports World Championships. For two men the trip has begun; Pierre Luc Gagnon (Montreal, Canada) and …

From The Cycling Examiner:

The Nature Valley Grand Prix will expand to include a new Friday night Uptown Criterium during its 11th annual edition, June 10-14 in Minneapolis, St. Paul and surrounding Minnesota cities.
Located in the Minneapolis Uptown neighborhood, cyclists will race around Calhoun Square on a course that comprises six tight corners and a fast, straight sprint finish.
Race promoters are marketing the new event as the headline attraction for the five-day stage race that will also include the Downtown Saint Paul Criterium in Lowertown.
The Nature Valley Grand Prix attracts an …