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Trapped in a vicious cycle
Matt Carroll was looking for a mountain bike challenge but a 24-hour race called Sleepless in the Saddle was more than he bargained for. ‘Darling?” my girlfriend said to me one evening recently. “Yes darling?” “I want you to promise me you'll never do anything like that again.” (28/09) ReadYou may also like
Endurance mountain biking relatively safe: study
ABC News | 03/07/08 
The study examines injury and illness rates of nearly 15,000 elite and recreational riders during eight years of endurance races.
It shows hotter and ... More
Two bikers go to the extreme
Hometown Weekly | 26/06/08
Sophomores Peter McNulty and Mike Gross don't spend their summer weekends hanging out around town. They get up at 6:00am on most Saturdays, pack up the ... More
‘Bike mystery is simply baffling'
Bradford Telegraph Argus, | 12/06/08
Residents have been left baffled by a bicycle which has been left securely locked in their private car-park for more than two months.
The 18-speed dual ... More
Get In The Saddle
Daily Record | 12/06/08
THERE are many good reasons to cycle. But if you haven't sat on a saddle for many years, you might need some new kit to get you started.
First, you ... More
Teen steals bike ... at gunpoint
Ottawa Sun | 06/06/08
A teenager wearing a black T-shirt with "shady" written on it made off with a $3,500 mountain bike in a gunpoint robbery Wednesday in Kanata, city police ... More
Giro d'Italia classifications demystified
Cyclingnews | 15/05/08
To wear any special jersey in the Giro d'Italia is a great honour - one which all riders dream of gaining. If a rider takes the lead in one of the jersey ... More
British cyclist Tom Austin among latest victims on the Road of Death
Timesonline | 01/05/08 
As the Unduavi-Yolosa Highway in Bolivia winds down 12,000ft (3.6km) over 40 miles, its sheer drops and sudden bends present an irresistible challenge ... Read
Dirtgirls
Bikemagic | 08/02/07
Alpine holiday company Flow MTB premiered its Dirtgirls women's weeks last year, and they were clearly successful - it'll be running them this summer ... Read
Koreans win big at Vietnamese bike race
Thanhniennews | 03/05/07
Gong Hyo Suk took the mountain climbing title while his countryman Oh Se Yong took the overall race with a time of 35:38:06 hours. South Korea also snatched ... Read
Student Hopes To Break Human Land Speed Record Using Bullet Shaped Bicycle
Science Daily | 13/09/07
Bouchard, a senior in mechanical engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, will try to break the collegiate human-powered land speed record of 61.5 ... Read
Dahle-Flesjå and Absalon the best ever?
Velonews | 05/01/07
Perhaps it's no surprise that Gunn-Rita Dahle-Flesjå and Julien Absalon earned top mountain-bike honors in the VeloNews Awards for the third year running. ... Read
All you need to know about: mountain-biking
Guardian | 07/06/07
Oli Beckingsale is the British mountain bike champion and Commonwealth Games silver medallist. Keep your tyres soft Unlike a road bike, where you want ... Read
Oli's mountain bike diary, part 1
BBC | 31/08/07
The days are counting down and now it�s only 10 days to the biggest MTB race of the year and my season�s goal, the World Championships. The ... Read
Cannondale Issues Safety Recall on Lefty Forks
Cannondale | 24/05/07
Cannondale has voluntarily issued a Safety Recall Notice with the Consumer Product Safety Commission involving any 2007 and some 2008 mountain bikes equipped ... Read
Cycle thieves 'dismantle' garage
BBC | 15/12/06
Determined thieves took apart a Darlington man's garage brick by brick to steal mountain bikes worth £6,000.
The gang also dismantled three street ... Read
Basic training gets bike riders in gear for the trail
Seattle Post Intelligencer | 31/08/06
Falling off a pair of spinning wheels happens too fast for your life to flash through your mind, but you usually can get a curse word out and -- surprisingly ... Read
Free-wheeling around the world
Nouse.uk | 31/05/07
York graduate Andrew Welch plans to break world records by circumnavigating the planet on a mountain bike, a journey which has been dubbed ‘Ride-Earth'. ... Read
Big wheels OK, say UCI
Bikemagic.com | 14/12/06
Gary Fisher has managed to persuade the UCI to allow 29in wheeled bikes to take part in mountain bike races. He's been working on the UCI for several ... Read
On the Road for 4 Years and 25,000 Miles
The New York Times | 19/10/06
In a sense, cycling around the world was easy. I bought a steel mountain bike (which I had to weld back together six times), put a repair kit, tent, sleeping ... Read
Tour de Torture: Who Is Prepared to Suffer the Most?
The New York Times | 03/07/08
A coach once told me, “Go until you see Jesus.” Another told me, “Pedal until you taste blood.” Everybody in the Tour de France will suffer; the winner ... More
Endurance mountain biking relatively safe: study
ABC News | 03/07/08
The study examines injury and illness rates of nearly 15,000 elite and recreational riders during eight years of endurance races.
It shows hotter and ... More
Triathlon incidents may be wake-up call
Charleston Post Courier | 03/07/08
There is so much good about participating in local road races, bike rides and triathlons. For one, it gives people goals to improve their personal physical ... More
Massive challenge for Mat in 3,000-mile US bike race
Hereford Times | 06/06/08
A HEREFORD man who cycles to work in Wolverhampton is taking part in the world's toughest bike ride next week.
Mat Wilson, from Credenhill, will be ... More
Ride a bike and save the world
Canöe | 29/05/08
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." - H.G. Wells
Science has had a tremendous impact on ... More
'There's Mommy, riding a bike'
Toronto Star 1 | 29/05/08
Thirty-seven years after this race started, Grace Ramos stood, holding a video camera, at what her mother called "the finish line."
In Ecuador, men ... More
What goes through the head of a pro cyclist in a five-hour race?
VeloNews | 22/05/08
Somebody once made the mistake of asking “What do you think about out there during five hour races? It can't all be focus, right?”
You asked for it! ... More
The Race Across America... 3,000 miles on a bike!
9news.com | 22/05/08
It's been called "The World's Toughest Bike Race." What more of a challenge could four 50+ year old women ask for?
On June 11th, the Colorado Flash ... More
Pupils pedal length of Africa in virtual bike race challenge
Bikeradar | 15/05/08
Some 80 schools are taking part in the first ever national Bike It virtual bike race - a 7,500-mile journey from Cairo to Cape Town, based on the route ... More
The Six Hour a Week Training Program
Pez Cyclingnews | 24/04/08
I often hear from cyclists who would like to race but “just don't have enough time to train.” Even if you never plan to race, you can still see significant ... Read
The man who pushed his bike 175 miles – in Alaska
Worcester News | 15/04/08
AS Christian Cullinane admitted, it was no place to have the pedal fall off your bike. With temperatures touching minus 30C and the white wilderness of ... Read
Teen cyclist emerges as king for a day
Herald Sun | 02/08/07
King, 18, inspired by Northern Territory-born Cadel Evans' second in the Tour de France on Sunday, demolished 64 rivals in the Gippsland event's second ... Read
Koreans win big at Vietnamese bike race
Thanhniennews | 03/05/07
Gong Hyo Suk took the mountain climbing title while his countryman Oh Se Yong took the overall race with a time of 35:38:06 hours. South Korea also snatched ... Read
Danish capital to host string of cycling world championships
International Herald Tribune | 26/01/07
Denmark has been awarded three international cycling races. The 2008 BMX world championship and the 2010 indoor cycling worlds will be held in Copenhagen, ... Read
An interview with Patrice Clerc: 'We're not afraid.'
Cyclingnews | 25/01/07
The divide between the most powerful race organisers in the world and the world's governing body of cycling has never been so deep. For over three years, ... Read
Rookie borrows bike to beat Watt
The Australian | 11/01/07
A FORMER middle-distance runner using a borrowed bike caused a major boilover yesterday, beating Kathy Watt to win the Australian women's time trial crown. ... Read
Tour de France strikes back at federation's grip on the big races
Guardian | 15/12/06
The festering conflict between the sport's governing body, the International Cycling Union, and major race organisers took a serious turn yesterday when ... Read
No USADA testing at 'Toona raises questions
Cyclingnews | 20/08/07
The International Tour de 'Toona, one of the two highest rated, non-championship races on USA Cycling's NRC calendar, had no US Antidoping Agency (USADA) ... Read
Pushing for reform
Cyclingnews | 16/07/07
Whatever happens during the rest of the race, Linus Gerdemann's victory in Le Grand-Bornand was an important moment for cycling and the 2007 Tour de France. ... Read
Massive challenge for Mat in 3,000-mile US bike race
Hereford Times | 06/06/08
A HEREFORD man who cycles to work in Wolverhampton is taking part in the world's toughest bike ride next week.
Mat Wilson, from Credenhill, will be ... More
The Race Across America... 3,000 miles on a bike!
9news.com | 22/05/08
It's been called "The World's Toughest Bike Race." What more of a challenge could four 50+ year old women ask for?
On June 11th, the Colorado Flash ... More
Pupils pedal length of Africa in virtual bike race challenge
Bikeradar | 15/05/08
Some 80 schools are taking part in the first ever national Bike It virtual bike race - a 7,500-mile journey from Cairo to Cape Town, based on the route ... More
British cyclist Tom Austin among latest victims on the Road of Death
Timesonline | 01/05/08
As the Unduavi-Yolosa Highway in Bolivia winds down 12,000ft (3.6km) over 40 miles, its sheer drops and sudden bends present an irresistible challenge ... Read
Cyclotherapy: Reasons to be cheerful
The Independent | 01/05/08
Forgive the metropolitanism, but as Londoners vote in today's mayoral election, and the candidates vie for the cyclist's vote, here (in no particular ... Read
Cycling champ Malcolm Lange steps down
Independent Online | 16/05/07
Malcolm Lange, one of South Africa's greatest and most successful cyclists, will end his illustrious career at the Pick 'n Pay 94.7 Cycle Challenge on ... Read
Who needs races when the scandals are so good?
International Herald Tribune | 26/04/07
These are certainly exciting times in bicycle racing: attacks and counterattacks, feuds and threats, grudges and challenges. Wow, all that and people even ... Read
Neck break teacher's bike quest
BBC | 07/06/07
Dave Griffin, 43, severed his spine demonstrating a trampoline bounce to pupils at Llanishen High School in Cardiff in 2005. But just six weeks after the ... Read
In Under Three Hours, Armstrong Learns Anew About Pain and Racing
The New York Times | 09/11/06
About 18 miles into the New York City Marathon yesterday, as Lance Armstrong made his way toward East Harlem, his legs started to feel as heavy as anchors. ... Read
PSP gets on its bike
Pro-g | 08/12/06
Oxygen Games has announced the April 2007 release of Dave Mirra BMX Challenge for the PSP. Developed exclusively for the PSP, Dave Mirra BMX Challenge ... Read
What Phileas Fogg did in 80 days, took the Uzunomiyas 10 years
The Taipei Times | 17/05/07
Ten years ago, Japanese teacher Kazunari Uzunomiya and his wife Tomoko began to realize their dream of cycling around the world. Now, 10 years and 88 countries ... Read
Tour de France
Chicago Sun-Times | 03/07/08
Greg Borzo is a self-proclaimed bike nut.
The 54-year-old Borzo, who lives in the North Park neighborhood, rides his seven-speed GT Rapid Transit for ... More
Get In The Saddle
Daily Record | 12/06/08
THERE are many good reasons to cycle. But if you haven't sat on a saddle for many years, you might need some new kit to get you started.
First, you ... More
Season's first ride needn't be a pain
Canada.com | 06/06/08
About to pedal off on the first bike ride of the season? Ten words: Take it easy. Cool down after. Or you'll be sorry.
Saddle sores? Aching back anyone?
The ... More
Massive challenge for Mat in 3,000-mile US bike race
Hereford Times | 06/06/08
A HEREFORD man who cycles to work in Wolverhampton is taking part in the world's toughest bike ride next week.
Mat Wilson, from Credenhill, will be ... More
The Sideways Bike: Like Surfing the Streets
Wired News | 13/07/07
This crazy contraption is Michaels Killian's Sideways Bike. Killian is a software engineer in Dublin, Ireland and he came up with the idea while tinkering ... Read
Saddle up!
Chortle | 12/04/07
ITV has commissioned a new comedy, Bike Squad, about cycling policemen.
Drop the Dead Donkey co-creator Guy Jenkin has been signed up to write a 90-minute ... Read