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Last year, 53-year-old German fitness freak Achim Heukemes ran the equivalent of two-and-a-half marathons every day for 43 days to set a record for the 4,586 kilometres between Perth and Sydney. This month, 39-year-old Australian cyclist Dick Vollebregt hopes to make the record books as well with a successful two-wheel attempt on the 14-year-old record of nine days, 23 hours and 25 minutes set by Japan's Tomio Uranyu. (02/11)
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IT is the cheeky, head-turning protest that has a serious message.
Sporting nothing but their birthday suits and helmets, scores of people will take ...
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Taylor Holmes pedals wildly as he charges downhill from the UC Santa Cruz campus, his skin-tight black jeans quickly spinning into blurs as he struggles ...
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Chances are you've never seen a bicycle made out of bamboo. If you picture a bamboo bike as wobbly or lopsided, though, think again, because when juniors ...
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It's not uncommon for aging pro racers to put off retirement for another year or few because they just don't know what to do next. Recently retired ex-CSC ...
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You do not have to be a king to play polo. You do not need a 300-yard grass field, a long-handled mallet or a helmet. In fact, you do not even need a horse. ...
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As the Government unveils plans to invest £10m in 21st century cycling proficiency tests, Stephen Biscoe champions a return to pedal power, while ...
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Under a slight drizzle and with the ocean as a backdrop, Petaluma artist Mark Grieve began assembly Thursday of an 18-foot welded sculpture of dozens of ...
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A Helsinki squirrel dived into the bicycle wheel of passing opera singer Esa Ruuttunen, hospitalising him and killing itself. The squirrel - apparently ...
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WAITING for my latte at Tiburon's Cafe Acri, I was surrounded by a dozen men in powder-blue spandex. Their legs were closely shaved, and they walked in ...
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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 ...
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Women are being urged to get on their bikes this weekend as part of a scheme to get more women on two wheels. The Five Miles to Fabulous rides are taking ...
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The other day, I was griping to Mr. Bike on the phone about how much crap I had hauled to work on my bike that morning. “Have you thought about getting ...
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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 ...
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We start on high ground. It's hot and muggy, not a pleasant day for a bicycle ride. Then again, New Orleans never was all that pleasant in the late summer, ...
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Bright yellow, green and blue jackets stood out in the departure lounge of Kigali's international airport. Rwanda's young national cycling team was on ...
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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 ...
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RON Thompson is happiest when riding his bike. He has devoted his time, energy and money to finding ways of putting thousands of poor people, and especially ...
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It's early afternoon, and the velodrome is nearly empty. The detritus of the previous night's partying has formed a layer of filthy ooze that covers ...
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The wheels of tourism will be spinning even faster this coming weekend - and it's not even peak holiday season. More than 8 000 local and international ...
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In the exclusive world of high-performance cycling, Dorel Industries Inc. is facing an uphill climb.
Fitness-obsessed baby boomers with disposable income ...
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In last month's Sport Psychology column, I continued our series on Integral Elements, the building blocks of the mentally fit cyclist's five core skills, ...
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CLASSIC bicycles were an attraction at the Tour De NFC: Fespic KL '06 fitness carnival held recently at the Penang Municipal Park. Some 20 classic bicycles ...
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Klaus Wellman, Messe Friedrichshafen's chief executive officer, said Eurobike's first day set an attendance record with more than 12,750 people packing ...
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The "Critical Mass" (CM) bicycle procession held in Budapest during yesterday's Earth Day celebrations drew upwards of 50,000 participants, which organizers ...
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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 ...
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Dahon has announced record sales for the first half of 2007. Unit volumes of bicycles sold grew by 27 percent to 180,000 units, and revenues increased ...
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Thousands of cyclists from Southern
California and Northern Baja California are heading to Rosarito Beach to
ride behind a pack of elites who are expected ...
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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'. ...
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This two guys, one in a purple T shirt, the other in orange need exactly 12768 Easy Steps that is 12 minutes and 24 seconds of experimental video to dismantle ...
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After an uncomfortable night when 72 hours of chronic fatigue and delayed altitude sickness finally caught up with him, Chris Hoy, the man who smashed ...
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The Unofficial World of Records keep tracks of the most useless and hurting records in the world from the "Worst Unicycle Wipeout" to the "Most Swearing ...
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Bicycle trailers are the cyclist's pick-up truck -- not because they guzzle gas, but because they can help schlep large amounts of stuff back and forth ...
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An Austrian man has set a new world record by riding his mountain bike at more than 130mph down the side of a mountain. Markus Stoeckl, 33, used a slope ...
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'The Flying ScotsmanTVinsert', the movie based on cyclist Graeme Obree's rocky ride to fame, is set to open worldwide on June 29. Obree, who overcame ...
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