Bike World News

Joanne Kiesanowski of Team TIBCO/To the Top took her first NRC victory of the season last Saturday at the Grand Cycling Classic in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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 Tour of America’s Dairyland p/b Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board will include a Women’s 3/4 category, in addition to the Pro Women 1/2 category, in this year’s race schedule.

Welcome to the Weekend Edition. Yesterday was a travel day back from sunny warm California to the Ohio reality of seven inches of snow. It took me half an hour to get the car clear enough to leave the airport parking lot. With that.. the news:
Some unexpected riders to watch for in the Tour of California, European road racing season opens tomorrow, Stam and Schep lead at Copenhagen, Boonen wants postive news, not “positive” news and more….

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From USA Cycling:
Colorado Springs, Colo. (January 14, 2009)-USA Cycling announced today the five athletes that were nominated to represent the United States in the elite men’s category at the 2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships on Feb. 1 in Hoogerheide, Netherlands.
Ryan Trebon (Bend, Ore.), Tim Johnson (Middleton, Mass.) and Jeremy Powers (Hadley, Mass.) all earned automatic nominations to the team as the top three Americans in the UCI rankings.
Trebon (20th) and Powers (27th) will head to the Netherlands to contest the event. Johnson, ranked 22nd in the world, has declined his …

This is the first year that I’ve really been following six day racing, and I finally decided to find out a little behind the history of this unique sub set of our sport.
Six day racing goes back all the way to 1878, when a professional named David Stanton sought a bet that he could ride 1,000 miles in six successive days, riding 18 hours a day. A gentleman named Mr. Davis put up £100 and the stake was held by the Sporting Life newspaper. Stanton started at 6am on 25 …

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Retailers and exhibitors pleased with the energy, participation and organization of Interbike’s inaugural east coast demo-style event.
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. – Oct. 24, 2008 – Amid off-road and road demo courses, bicycle manufacturers, retailers and industry groups participated in two days of product demos, clinics and networking during Interbike’s first regional demo event, OutDoor Demo East, held October 21-22, 2008, at the Roger Williams Park in Providence, Rhode Island.
In hosting our first regional demo-style event, we had great support from exhibitors and strong attendance from east coast retailers,” …