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British cyclist Tom Austin among latest victims on the Road of Death
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 for thrill-seeking mountain bikers. But the wooden crosses and the bouquets of wilting flowers on each side are testimony to a stretch of dirt track known as El Camino de la Muerte, the Road of Death. (01/05) ReadYou may also like
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
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
Trapped in a vicious cycle
The Times | 28/09/06
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 ... 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
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
Who can beat Garth?
Bermuda Sun | 08/02/07
Mechanical problems and being unavailble may have cost Garth Thompson a serious crack at top spot in the mountain bike points series. But he is still the ... Read
Shared experience shines at Moab
Denver Post | 19/10/06
Laird Knight is not often at a loss for words. Yet, sometime after the umpteenth RV had pulled in and parked at the Behind the Rocks recreation area, after ... Read
Town hosts bicycle bog snorkelling contest
icWales | 10/07/07
A mountain biking event with a difference will take place later today in a town famed for its oddball competitions. The annual World Mountain Biking Bog ... Read
Bush Transforms Into Avid Mountain Biker
Washington Post | 30/11/06
Swapping his running shoes for bicycle pedals, President Bush bid adieu to painful runner's knees and transformed himself into a devoted mountain biker ... Read
Cycling Success Measured in Frequent-Flier Miles
The New York Times | 09/05/08
EARLY last year, Dr. Jason Newland, a 34-year-old pediatric infectious disease physician from Stilwell, Kan., decided he would upgrade his Cannondale road ... More
Pretty in pink
BBC | 09/05/08
Although not as iconic as its elder French cousin, the Giro is one third of cycling's "Triple Crown", along with Le Tour and the Road World Championships.
It ... More
Passing surgeon comes to the rescue of cyclist
Timesonline | 09/05/08
A cyclist who severed an artery when she fell off her bike was saved by a stroke of luck because one of the people who came to her assistance was a vascular ... More
Hot sun and snakes on the road
Cyclingnews | 01/02/07
Here in Africa we use sun-screen with SPF of 40 every time we go outside, and Lene runs over at least one snake a day. Even though we've all got ourselves ... Read
A bike helmet built for road hazards
news.com | 31/08/06
From the outside, the Smart Helmet looks ordinary. It's a black, shiny BMX helmet designed to block wind noise. It has a chin bar with a built-in microphone ... 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
Sophie rewarded for bike safety
Swindon Advertiser | 11/01/07
Safety conscious Sophie Grange won a new bike as a reward for wearing her helmet while on the roads. Four-year-old Sophie was riding near her home in Upper ... Read
New cycling test set for children
BBC | 07/09/06
A new cycling proficiency award aimed at preparing children for the present traffic and road conditions has been launched. Bikeability will be awarded ... Read
30.000 cyclists get green traffic light wave
Copenhagen Capacity | 28/12/06
Cars and especially busses have for year had the benefit of a green traffic light wave on the roads. But now it is the cyclists turn to enjoy a smooth ... Read
Green machines for our selves and the planet
Tandem | 24/05/07
Bicycle riding in North America has increased in popularity in recent years and the month of May in the GTA provides much evidence of this. This weekend ... 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
I want to ride my bicycle
HooK | 31/05/07
In the six minutes just before 9am, 40 cars whiz past the corner of Key West Drive and Stony Point Road, northeast of Pantops. Thirty six of them are inhabited ... Read
Bike Riding Polish Governor Had No License
Masterpage | 01/02/07
When Polish police order a weaving bicycle rider to stop he fell off the bike as he tried to leave the road and get on the sidewalk. The rider turned out ... Read
Asian Games cycling road races need more riders -- UCI president
People's Daily Online, | 15/12/06
In order to enhance the competitiveness of the sport, the Asian Games road cycling races need more cyclists per team to participate in, said the Union ... Read
Bikes 'still jumping red lights'
BBC | 23/11/06
Officials from Avon and Somerset Safety Camera Partnership who view images from vehicle-triggered red light cameras said they were "shocked" at the number. ... Read
Africans set for ride of their life at world championships
Turkish Press | 22/09/06
African cyclist Jeremie Ouedraogo will wear a wry smile when he lines up alongside his hero, Alexandre Vinokourov, when the men's road race starts at ... 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
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
Nine Legendary Frame Builders Collaborate on Custom Road Bike for NAHBS Raffle
Ppolnews | 01/02/07
The North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS), the world's largest consumer show for custom-built bicycles, invites the public to buy a raffle ticket ... Read
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
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
Trapped in a vicious cycle
The Times | 28/09/06
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 ... 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
Victoria Pendleton: pedal to the medal
Telegraph | 01/05/08
Gold medals are rare treasures for British athletes. But the track cyclist Victoria Pendleton already has quite a collection of them, beginning with the ... Read
On ya bike for slice of Bangkok life
News.com.au | 01/05/08
IT seems hard to believe, but there are some people who say Bangkok is one of the best places in the world for cycling.
It's also, according to Co ... Read
Business is easier than riding a bike.
The Sydney Morning Herald | 02/03/07
As one of Australia's most explosive track cyclists, Josh Kersten vividly remembers when success or failure rested on the outcome of a single minute. ... Read
Early starts and late finishes
Cyclingnews | 18/01/07
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 ... Read
On yer bike
The Sydney Morning Herald | 26/10/06
On a recent weekend in the picturesque Kowen Forest near Canberra, 3031 gung-ho mountain bikers participated in the world's largest event of its kind ... Read
Children film railway bike prank
BBC | 31/08/06
Police are hunting a gang of children who filmed themselves throwing a bike onto rail tracks in Greater Manchester, before posting the clip on a website. ... 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
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
Journey expands cyclist's horizons
Journal Sentinel | 22/02/07
Quinn Baumberger set off on his bicycle from the edge of North America last May, seeking to help those losing their vision to macular degeneration. Quinn ... Read