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Australian cyclist fits continental tyres
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) ReadYou may also like
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Hawke's Bay Today | 20/06/08 
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Bike museum is judge's passion
Kentucky.com | 29/05/08
With so many bicycles on display, it's easy to overlook the framed, black-and-white photograph hanging on the back wall.
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Who'll dare to bare for naked bike ride?
Thisishampshire.net | 15/05/08
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 ... More
The Fixed-Gear Trend in Santa Cruz
City on a Hill Press | 09/05/08
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 ... More
Reinventing the wheel
Daily Princetonian | 24/04/08 
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 ... Read
Andrea's Patagonian Adventure
Pez Cyclingnews | 25/01/07
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 ... Read
Their Kingdom for a Bike: It's Polo on Two Wheels
The New York Times | 03/05/07
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. ... Read
Wheels of fortune: The great debate rolls on between cyclists and motorists
Yorkshire Post | 29/03/07
As the Government unveils plans to invest £10m in 21st century cycling proficiency tests, Stephen Biscoe champions a return to pedal power, while ... Read
Artist is assembling sculpture out of bike parts
Ventura County Star | 04/04/08
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 ... Read
Suicide squirrel in opera-hating kamikaze bike spoke mangle
The Register | 07/09/06
A Helsinki squirrel dived into the bicycle wheel of passing opera singer Esa Ruuttunen, hospitalising him and killing itself. The squirrel - apparently ... Read
Insider's tour of Marin, on two wheels
Los Angeles Times | 08/12/06
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 ... 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
Women encouraged to get on bikes
Oxford Mail | 31/05/07
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 ... Read
Sore Butt? Greasy pant-leg? Bad date-on-wheels? Ask Mr. Bike
Miami New Times | 24/05/07
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 ... 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
To grasp disaster, bike New Orleans
International Herald Tribune | 07/09/06
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, ... Read
Wheels of hope turn in Rwanda
BusinessDay | 03/08/07
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 ... Read
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
South Africa: Putting Rural Children On Wheels
allAfrica.com | 26/04/07
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 ... Read
Triathlon incidents may be wake-up call
Charleston Post Courier | 03/07/08
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The bike that launched a rolling feud
The Globe and Mail | 15/05/08
In the exclusive world of high-performance cycling, Dorel Industries Inc. is facing an uphill climb.
Fitness-obsessed baby boomers with disposable income ... More
Building Self-Confidence
Pez Cyclingnews | 09/05/08
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, ... More
Classic bikes grab attention
The Star | 31/08/06
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 ... Read
Eurobike Sets Attendance Record
Bicycle Retailer | 04/09/07
Klaus Wellman, Messe Friedrichshafen's chief executive officer, said Eurobike's first day set an attendance record with more than 12,750 people packing ... Read
Budapest sees record long bicycle procession
Caboodle.hu | 26/04/07
The "Critical Mass" (CM) bicycle procession held in Budapest during yesterday's Earth Day celebrations drew upwards of 50,000 participants, which organizers ... 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
Dahon sales keep rising and rising
Bikebiz.co.uk | 01/08/07
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 ... Read
7,500 Geared Up to Ride, Course Record in Jeopardy
PRnewswire | 22/09/06
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 ... 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
How To Turn a Bicycle into a Record Player
Brightcove.com | 15/02/07
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 ... Read
Hoy suffers in silence after record effort
Telegraph | 17/05/07
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 ... Read
The Most Pointless Bike Stunt
The unofficial World of Records | 30/11/06
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 ... Read
DIY Bicycle Trailers
Art Threat Magazine, | 07/06/07
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 ... Read
Daredevil cycles down mountain at 130mph
The Telegraph | 24/09/07
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 ... Read
'The Flying Scotsman' to open June 29
Khabar Bike | 12/06/07
'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 ... Read