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It's not that unusual for a teenage boy to have a paper round to get a little extra cash. What is out of the ordinary, however, is for that job to be used as part of training for something bigger. East Belfast lad Andrew Hunter delivers Belfast Telegraphs up and down the steep streets of Ballyhackamore on his bike for the Wyngrove Newsagents. (31/08) Read

Keyword(s) : Training, Street

Weights Help You Hang

Bicycling | 09/05/08

Sprinters and climbers know that strength training is essential for increasing their max power, but Norwegian researchers have found adding weights to ... 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

Cyclist robbed while training

Independent Online | 07/09/06

Organisers of a Pietermaritzburg cycling contest expressed dismay on Wednesday after a cyclist was attacked by three youths while training. "What creep, ... Read

Very Veronica: Back From The Brink

Pez Cyclingnews | 17/08/07

Just before she was due to ride the Swedish nationals as the TT favorite, our newest pro diarist Veronica Andréasson was hit by a car while training ... 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

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

A Measure of the Power That Drives the Bicycle

The New York Times | 13/07/07

Two decades ago, Polar popularized the use of heart-rate monitors as training tools for athletes, both professional and amateur. More recently, dedicated ... Read

Team Milram equips with GPS not computers

Bikebiz.co.uk | 08/02/07

The squad that includes Erik Zabel and Alessandro Petacchi has signed a deal with Garmin. Team members will get Edge 305's to monitor speed, location, ... Read

Spinning made simple

The Sydney Morning Herald | 09/11/06

The scene in Bridget Jones' Diary where Renee Zellweger famously collapses from her exercise bike is more plausible than you think: a session of group ... Read

Geopolitics splits S. Hills 'Romeo,' Cuban Yuliet

Pittsburgh Live | 19/10/06

Their romance has embraced the scope of the world as much as it has defied its artificial boundaries. Joe Papp, a Bethel Park native with a boyish grin, ... Read

Ridin' With A Champ

Bicycling | 22/02/07

LeMond Bikes used the Tour of California's opening road stage finish in Santa Rosa to introduce its new all carbon Tete de Course Triomphe Ultimate. Fittingly ... Read

Konya-made bicycle-taxis on NY streets

Today's Zaman | 15/05/08

A Turkish bicycle producer has developed a popular bicycle-taxi that has made its way to the streets of the US and England. Sakallıoğlu ... More

Bicycle-makers ride high on surging oil prices

Reuters | 15/05/08

The row of gleaming bicycles being assembled on the factory floor of Giant Manufacturing, one of the world's biggest bicycle-makers, will soon hit streets ... More

Feather-boa bicycle bandits invade Vietnam's city streets

AFP | 15/05/08

An exotic and colourful new urban species has invaded Vietnam's crowded city streets, turning heads, slowing traffic and making a lot of noise -- the ... More

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

Google Maps captures teenage bike gaff

Bike Radar | 24/04/08

But what's this? A vehicle sporting an impressive item of roof-mounted optical hardware moves along the street at a steady, metered pace. The all-seeing ... Read

Students snap up free bicycle lamps

Oxford Mail | 18/01/07

Students and staff at Oxford University snapped up 1,000 free sets of bicycle lights in just two hours. The giveaway on Saturday, as part of a safety drive ... Read

Mayor vows 'a good look' at Critical Mass

San Francisco Chronicle | 05/04/07

Mayor Gavin Newsom said today that he plans to take "a good look" at the city's response to Critical Mass after bicyclists allegedly smashed through ... 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

Act Now to Save Pedicabs

Pedal Pushers Online | 26/04/07

On March 30th, Mayor Michael Bloomberg vetoed Intro 331A, a bill passed by the City Council that would have strangled the city's growing pedicab industry ... 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

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

Biking to work without any brakes

Gazette.net | 24/05/07

Dan Hommer has commuted by bicycle to work for the past 30 years. Traveling from his home in Rockville, Hommer loves approaching the intersections on Tuckerman ... Read

Bike to the future

The Prague Post | 14/09/06

It is axiomatic that the country made basic blunders after communism's fall. The gravest error, perhaps, was the fulsome embrace of the automobile. In ... Read

Pedal power

The Guardian | 12/04/07

In his first three years at secondary school, Kevin Kane's mum was spending more than £5 a week from her tight family budget so he could get the ... Read

Bicyclists winning a war of lanes in San Francisco

The Christian Science Monitor | 14/09/06

By day, they are sober-minded city professionals - teachers, doctors, lawyers - who forgo cars and buses to commute by bicycle. One Friday night a month, ... Read

Portland friends hatch intricate plan to recover stolen bike

The Seattle Times | 03/05/07

When Dory Van Fleet stepped out of the REI store, the black mountain bike he had locked up on the street was gone. In a steady drizzle, Van Fleet walked ... Read

Environmentalists stage 'naked' bike ride protest

24dash.com | 19/10/06

A group of brave environmentalists staged a "naked" bike ride through a busy city centre today. Bemused shoppers - many wrapped in coats and scarves ... Read

Interview: Mr. Ma, toy bicycle maker

Shanga¨List | 16/11/06

Seventy-four-year-old retired electrician Mr. Ma, who also goes by the monicker “Zhuan Ren” (meaning “specialized person”), has been hand-crafting intricate ... Read