A Legendary Collapse: Armstrong Says, 'This Tour is Finished for Me.'

The Versus Tour de France commentary was sprinkled over and over with the fact that Sunday's stage 8 — the first with any sizable climbing would not necessarily win the 2010 Tour for any rider, but it certainly could lose it for any given rider. I just would have never thought it was Lance Armstrong.

I didn't [...]

Signal Your Cycling Intentions Wirelessly

Here's a cool little product for all you fellow bike commuters. This little unit uses an accelerometer to signal when you're slowing, and has a little touch set of buttons for turn signaling. It retails at just under $100. Why are these lighting products so freaking expensive? Regardless, seems like a cool little gadget, and it's [...]

Trek Unveils All New Consumer-Ready Speed Concept Triathlon Bikes

I'm a Specialized fanboy through and through — have been every since I got into road bike riding several years back. Trek stuff has always been intriguing as another American competitor, but I've never been drawn to their designs. They always seem to be way too busy and bright. Our last trip down to Florida, I [...]

It's National Bike to Work Day

It's National Bike to Work Day at the end of Bike to Work Week here in the United States. Sadly, I was only able to bike in yesterday, due to work schedule and crappy weather. The original plan was to ride in today as well. Oh well. Regardless, it's established in my mind that I can [...]

Floyd Landis Admits Doping, Accuses Armstrong and Others

Everyone in and around the cycling scene has already seen this earlier this morning, but wanted to post it too. I'm really disappointed, and it's just another in a long series of athletes cheating. It also makes you question who else currently competing is guilty. Lame. Just Lame.

Floyd Landis Admits Doping, Accuses Armstrong [...]

Cyclists Split on Two-Abreast Proposal

This week, all my local triangle cycling blogs and email lists are rolling with the proposed North Carolina bill that is being toted as a bicycle safety law, but is really more of a motorist inconvenience law at the expense of bicycle safety, as a Tri-Cyclist teammate framed it so well. My teammate went to todays's [...]

Notice the Lack of Cycling Posts?

Notice the lack of cycling posts? Make that, notice the lack of cycling? The biggest excuse is that currently, I'm working two jobs, bringing in the big bucks.. err bringing in some money. It's been consisting of a fair number of hours away from the house. Besides missing my wife and little boy, the other huge [...]

Raleigh Poised to Become Bike-Friendly

Organically and slowly, it seems North Carolina's capital city is becoming more and more friendly to the two-wheeled riders on its street, though the article linked below is linking bike-friendly and bike lanes as virtually one and the same, which in some ways is true. If more government money is being used on projects for on-road [...]

Lance Armstrong's Talk With Tony Kornheiser

After Tony Kornheiser's whole tirade about running cyclists off the road [...]

Google Maps to Offer Biking Directions

Here's an often requested and often rumored feature that looks like it is finally going to come to Google Maps. They've already got driving directions. They've already got walking directions. Now for the delight of cyclists, commuters and overall two-wheeled road warriors everywhere across the U.S. (according to the press release, that's over 57 million Americans!), [...]