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Posted 09/01/2010
New Online Reporting System Responsible for Recovering Stolen Bike
Posted 09/01/2010
Slipstream Sports Announces Additions to 2011 Team Roster

Boulder, Colo. (September 1, 2010) — Slipstream Sports today announced six additions to the 2011 roster, marking the remaining Cervélo TestTeam riders to join the newly formed Team Garmin-Cervélo.
Posted 09/01/2010
Performance Partners With People For Bikes

Chapel Hill, NC (Vocus) - Performance Bicycle®, the country’s number one specialty bike retailer, announced today that it is partnering with People for Bikes in an unprecedented nationwide campaign to encourage public funding to improve bicycling infrastructure and make our communities friendlier places to ride. The People for Bikes campaign, a brainchild of the Bikes Belong Foundation, aims to collect one million signatures to raise awareness and support for biking and bicycling initiatives all over the country. Anyone can sign the pledge by going to www.peopleforbikes.org/pledge. The goal of the People for Bikes pledge is to unite all cyclists,
Posted 09/01/2010
U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer to Speak at Interbike

San Juan Capistrano, Calif. – Interbike today announced that it will open its 2010 International Bicycle Expo in Las Vegas with a special press conference featuring keynote speaker U.S. Representative and Congressional Bike Caucus founder Earl Blumenauer of Oregon. Interbike Show Director Andy Tompkins and Bikes Belong Coalition (BBC) President Tim Blumenthal will introduce the congressman and make a few brief remarks.
Posted 09/01/2010
Tacoma Bike Giving Back

Tacoma Bike, recently voted "Best Bike Shop 2010" in the Volcano readers’ best of, is giving a little something back this weekend with their first ever Labor Day sale. It will run Thursday through Monday with huge reductions on bikes, apparel, accessories and more. Just in time for your winter training bike or to stock up ready for those off-season repairs.
Posted 09/01/2010
Hincapie Sportswear Hires Robert Snedden to Represent in Texas

Greenville, SC —Hincapie Sportswear (Hincapie), manufacturer and marketer of distinctive clothing for the performance cyclist, has hired Robert Snedden as retail sales representative for the brand in Texas. Effective immediately, Snedden will represent Hincapie for retail cycling apparel and accessory sales to independent bicycle dealers and sell Hincapie custom cycling clothing to clubs and teams in his territory.
Posted 08/31/2010
Portland - Broadway Bridge Reopens September 4

Portland, Ore. – The Broadway Bridge Streetcar construction is on schedule and will partially reopen this Saturday, September 4. The bridge has been closed in stages since early July due to streetcar track construction.
Posted 08/30/2010
Thor Hushovd Will Join Slipstream Sports in 2011

August 30, 2010 – Thor Hushovd, Norwegian Road Race Champion, nine-time Tour de France stage winner and 2009 green jersey holder, will ride for Team Garmin-Cervélo in 2011. Team Garmin-Transitions and Cervélo SA announced last week they will join forces for the 2011 season to create a new team that will be known as Garmin-Cervélo.
Posted 08/30/2010
Pendrel Takes Gold, Prémont Takes Silver

Wyndham, NY (August 29, 2010) – Canadian Mountain Bike riders Catharine Pendrel (Kamloops, BC) and Marie-Hélène Prémont (Château-Richer, QC) took the first two spots in the sixth and last Cross-Country race of the 2010 season in Wyndham, New-York. In winning the race, Pendrel ends the 2010 on Top of the overall UCI World Cup standings, her career first UCI World Cup title.
Posted 08/30/2010
Whitten and Bell Excel at Canadian Track Championships

Bromont, QC (August 28, 2010) – On a scorching hot and sunny day at the National Cycling Centre velodrome in Bromont, QC, Tara Whitten and Zach Bell showed their domination in track cycling, but the Canadian Championships was the stage for some hot performances by up-and-coming cyclists, a good sign that the Canadian Cycling program is on track for international success in the years to come.
Posted 08/30/2010
Portland Traffic Advisory

Portland, Ore. - The Portland Bureau of Transportation advises the traveling public that SE Water Avenue from SE Main Street to SE Alder Street will be closed to all vehicular traffic from Monday, August 30, through Tuesday September 7. Work crews will close the road from 7:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. each day for grinding and repaving.
Posted 08/30/2010
Race Face Hires John Pentecost

Race Face Performance Products, a worldwide leader in high-end mountain bike components, apparel, and protection, continues a year of growth and business building by hiring industry veteran, John Pentecost. Pentecost is best known in the bike industry as the co-founder and Business Director of Evil Bikes and e.thirteen components, and he’ll draw on those experiences to fill a couple of roles with Race Face: Pentecost will collaborate with the company’s team of designers and engineers as a Product Manager for Protection, and he’ll also become the ‘voice’ of the company in a newly created position as Marketing Communications Manager for both Protection and Components.
Posted 08/27/2010
Team Garmin-Transitions and Cervélo Team up for 2011

Team Garmin-Transitions and Cervélo SA will join forces for the 2011 season to create a new team that will be known as Garmin-Cervélo.
Posted 08/27/2010
Gork to the BMX Hall of Fame

Pioneer BMX Racer - Tim Judge
Posted 08/27/2010
Sun Peaks King of the Mountain DH Enduro Race

It is one thing to shred the Sun Peaks Bike Park with your friends on weekends. It’s another to pin it straight for six hours and prove you are the King of the Mountain on Saturday, September 11th.
Posted 08/26/2010
StarCrossed confirms Shimano's Elite Men and Women’s Racers

Seattle, Wash. (August 26, 2010) – StarCrossed p/b Stanley – A Brand of PMI, has attracted an international field for 2010 as top riders from North America and Europe are starting to confirm attendance to race in the Shimano Men’s and Women’s Elite StarCrossed races. StarCrossed is part of the national cyclocross series, the North American Cyclocross Trophy Series (NACT). The NACT kicks off with StarCrossed on September 18, and stays the weekend in Seattle with racing on Sunday at the legendary Rad Racing Gran Prix, this year hosted at a brand new venue, Lake Sammamish State Park.
Posted 08/26/2010
Adventure Cycling Announces Early Season and Epic Tours for 2011

Missoula, Montana — Looking for an inspiring bicycle adventure or simply a fabulous vacation that is easy on the pocket book, potentially life changing, and supports bicycling infrastructure throughout the United States?
Posted 08/25/2010
Portland Bureau of Transportation seeks new members for Bicycle Advisory Committee

The Portland Bureau of Transportation made the following request for new members for the City of Portland’s Bicycle Advisory Committee:
Posted 08/25/2010
Four Perfect Days of Cyclocross in Seattle

Seattle, Wash. (August 24, 2010) – Rad Racing NW, Lake Washington Velo and Low Pressure Promotions, LLC announces their cooperation on “Four Perfect Cross Days” in the Seattle metro area from September 16-19. This four day festival of cyclocross events includes:
Posted 08/25/2010
Universal Sports to Offer Live Vuelta a Espana Coverage

Los Angeles—Universal Sports will broadcast live, comprehensive coverage of every stage of the Vuelta a Espana—an unprecedented more than 176 total hours—beginning this Saturday, August 28 at 3:30 p.m. ET, with Universal Sports’ 2010 Vuelta Preview Show, followed immediately by the start of stage 1 LIVE from Spain at 4 p.m. ET. Coverage of the third and final Grand Tour of the cycling season continues everyday at 10 a.m. ET throughout the three-week race, where Universal Sports will follow the riders through all 21 stages until the finish in Madrid on Sept. 19. On both rest days—September 6 and 14—Universal Sports will present special Vuelta Recap Shows at 10am ET. The network will also present primetime re-airs nightly at 8pm ET.

Featured Events

Bike MS Ride
Road Touring from September 11, 2010–September 12, 2010 @ Mt Vernon, WA
Tour des Lacs
Road Touring from September 18, 2010–September 19, 2010 @ Spokane, WA
Tour de Whidbey
Road Touring on September 25, 2010 @ Whidbey Island, WA
Harvest Century
Road Touring on October 09, 2010 @ Hillsboro, OR
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Features

Ryder Hesjedal Post-Tour Interview
Rob Jones spoke with Ryder Hesjedal from Biarritz, on the French Riviera, where Hesjedal was taking a few days break before heading to San Sebastian for the next Pro Tour race. On Sunday, July 18, 2010, Hesjedal finished his third Tour de France with an incredible seventh place overall and two fourth place stage results on some of the hardest days of the race.
Tuft Talks of the Giro and Wins Nationals
Langley, BC, resident Svein Tuft, who now races for the Garmin-Transitions team, finished his first Grand Tour in May — the Giro d’Italia (note: he did ride 15 stages of the Vuelta Espana last season also). After he returned to his home in Girona, Spain, we caught up with him to find out how his season is going, and what it’s like riding on the Pro Tour.
Records Set at Alpenrose Velodrome Challenge
The twelfth edition of the Alpenrose Velodrome Challenge (AVC), one of the nation’s premier track cycling competitions, was presented from July 16 to 18. Riders from all over the country as well as Canada and New Zealand make the annual pilgrimage to race on the 43-degree banks of the cigar-shaped oval. What follows is an account of the most hotly contested events at this year’s AVC.
Mike Schechter: Biking to Lose
Mike Schechter is not a spokesman for dieting fads and get thin quick schemes; instead he promotes all the benefits of the cycling life. Resident of the Northwest since 1997 and cycling enthusiast since 2009, he accomplished a goal that many people find difficult, even impossible, to achieve: he lost weight, and not just a few fluctuating vanity pounds.

Opinions

How Cyclists Helped Rethink A Bridge
In the spring of 2009, the Oregon and the Washington State Department of Transportation and other business interest groups were pushing the Columbia River Crossing project, a 4 billion dollar, 12-lane bridge planned to replace the existing I-5 structure between Oregon and Washington. Jamming a 12-lane freeway through the center of Portland looked like 20th century thinking.
On the Club Ride, Part Two
Part two of a two-part conversation between Maynard and his friend Corey. Last month they were talking about club rides and the advantages and disadvantages of participating in them.
Tour De Lance: The Extraordinary Story Of Lance Armstrong’s Fight to Reclaim The Tour de France
Saddle back up and reclaim the Tour de France? Dream on. Sports comebacks are unwieldy animals that rarely go according to plan, or end well. More than baseball, boxing or basketball, bicycle racing offers absolutely no margin for error, no wiggle room, no accommodations for age or motivation.
On the Club Ride
Club life was different 30-odd years ago. Rides were structured and instruction or discipline was often harsh. We were young, malleable and hungry for knowledge. We felt lucky to learn about the sport from seasoned riders. Recently I’ve begun riding with a local club.

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