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Man Buys $8,000 Mountain Bike Once Owned by Floyd Landis - For $5


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bike, bmc, doping, doping', mountain bike

Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 8:36 a.m.

Landis on his custom BMC mountain bike in 2006.We’ve heard about some pretty sweet mountain bike deals on websites like Craigslist recently but this good-old-fashioned garage sale find has to be one of the best. Greg Estes thought he got a pretty decent deal when he found a BMC mountain bike for $5 at a [ ... ]Related posts: Breaking: Former Mountain Biker Floyd Landis (Finally) Admits Doping Floyd Landis competing at Teva Mountain Games Floyd Landis takes 36th at Teva Mountain Games in

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Mayor Says Bicycles Belong on LA Streets


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bicycle, bike, bike lane

Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 6:00 a.m.

After taking a tumble on his bicycle, the mayor of Los Angeles is a born-again bike advocate. According to the Associated Press:The mayor, who said little on the topic during five years in office, is campaigning to make streets safer for cyclists after a parked cab abruptly pulled out across a bike lane, causing him [ ... ] ...

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Personal Emotional Mobility


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bicycle, bike, cycle, cycling, look, time

Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 3:44 a.m.
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On my trip to Melbourne I arrived on the Monday and was scheduled to give my talk on the Saturday. Felix and I were picked up at the airport, together with another chap who was also speaking at the State of Design Festival ... A car designer. Former head of design for BMW. His name is Chris Bangle. Charming and personable with great humour ... He gave his talk on the Tuesday at the BMW Edge venue at Federation Square. I was looking forward to hearing about car design - all design is interesting

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Former Teammate Vouches for Armstrong


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cyclist, doping

Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 8:57 a.m.

Australian cyclist Patrick Jonker says he never saw any evidence of doping while on the US Postal team, reports Fox Sports ... "I didn’t see anything. If I was subpoenaed to go to court and put my hand on the Bible, I’d go," he said.Jonker rode the Tour de France from 1994-99, but missed [ ... ] ...

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this is going to change things for sure... Capital Bike Share


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bicycle, bike, bike share

Published Aug. 11, 2010 at 1:31 p.m.
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our world is about to change ... it seems simple enough ... "if you build it ... they will come" ... or maybe ... "if you give a man a fish ... he eats for a day ... but if you teach a man to fish ... he eats for a lifetime" ... maybe not? ... perhaps I am not the plagiarizing philosopher I am trying to be ... I will have to fall back on the words of Morrissey ... "don't plagiarizer or take on loans" ... well ... flood the streets with bikes ... make bicycle readily available ... remove the

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DCP Report Adds Another Wrinkle to Measurements of NYC Cycling


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bike, bike lane, cycling

Published Aug. 11, 2010 at 12:42 p.m.

The number of cyclists on the Second Avenue bike lane, at 7th Street, has been on the rise. Image: DCPMore New Yorkers are riding bikes than ever, but a new report from the Department of City Planning further complicates the effort to precisely determine how much cycling has taken off. The [ ... ] ...

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This bike LOVES America.


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bike, safety

Published Aug. 11, 2010 at 11:06 a.m.

Abandoned vagabond-bike at the Seattle Ferry Terminal. The next day we saw a rather grizzled man riding around another bike that was set up exactly the same way! I’m surprised I didn’t see them at the Dead Baby Downhill.Safety third! ...

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Round and Round: In Search of Direction


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bicycle, bicycling, bike, bike lane, carbon, components, cycle, cycling, floyd landis, messenger, parlee, rapha, road bike, time, time trial bike, video

Published Aug. 11, 2010 at 9:44 a.m.
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First of all, I'm pleased to announce that my ruthless publisher Chronicle, an evil conglomerate of San Francisco hippies, have finally received newly-printed copies of my book "Bike Snob," which, unlike "Positively False" author Floyd Landis, I wrote all by myself without a ghost writer or anything ... This means that gooey batches of oven-fresh literary goodness are on their way to the various purveyors of books both online and off, and that you can finally read a book in which "sarcasm takes

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crmbt - day 1


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bike, bike path, time

Published Aug. 11, 2010 at 9:08 a.m.
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You meet a road in a car. You get to know it on a bike ... We road out of Edwards on US 6 to US 24 where we headed south for Leadville. The route would then take us north on CO 91 to Copper Mountain,  where we would use the bike path to reach Frisco, and on to Breckenridge. I've ridden these two stretches before. Once on CRMBT in 2008, and again last year on the Copper Triangle. But, I've always been going the other direction. I've started on the longer side of Fremont Pass, followed by shorter

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as per usual... the journey is the destination


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bike, bike path, lock, time, tire, tires, video, wheel

Published Aug. 11, 2010 at 8:59 a.m.
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ah ... summertime ... camp is over ... the kids are at home ... the world's second most difficult riddle needs to be answered ... "how do I entertain the kids? ... it is a tough one ... what is the most difficult riddle? ... no it is not ... "how many licks does it take to get to the center of the tootsie roll tootsie pop?" ... the world's most difficult riddle is ... "what's for dinner?" ... the second most difficult riddle can be almost as great of conundrum ... the children often object to

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