Posted August 13th, 2007
CarsGuide Media Release August 10, 2007
Australian drivers vent their frustrations
Survey confirms illegal street racing is a growing concern
71% of drivers want street window washers banned from our roads
The majority of Australians (68 per cent) have witnessed illegal street racing on public roads, with close to half (45 per cent) saying they have […]
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Posted August 12th, 2007
Polluted Beijing tries car bans ahead of Olympics. I just knew Chinese Communism (or was that Confucianism?) would be good for something.
Congressman Ridicules Bikes as “19th Century Solution”. It’s still much better than the fossilised 20th century solutions the Republicans would like.
Tanks for the memory. London Mayor Ken Livingstone changes the congestion charge to a […]
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Posted August 10th, 2007
CPF Media Release.
The Minister for Health and Ageing, The Hon Tony Abbott MP today launched the landmark document Cycling Moving Australia Forward at Parliament House.
Minister Abbott was joined by Shadow Minister for Sport, Recreation and Health Promotion, and Shadow Minister for Local Government, Senator Kate Lundy and former editor of The Age, Michael Smith - […]
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Posted August 9th, 2007
Andrej Kashechkin has returned a positive control for blood doping.
New hard blow for the Astana Cycling Team: the Kazakh Andrej Kashechkin has been positively controlled by homologue blood transfusion. This result is the consequence of an unexpected control carried out on August 1st in Belek (TUR).
The rider is suspended from the team with immediate […]
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Posted August 7th, 2007
Cadel Evans was interviewed on Enough Rope last night, but unfortunately the segment (video or transcript) isn’t online yet so here is a small grab. You can also read a bit about it in the Cyclingnews daily news wrap (third item).
The interview was done via Satellite so it was strangely disjointed. And while Denton is […]
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Posted August 5th, 2007
Velo News has done a rough analysis of the very positive numbers coming out of this years Tour de France - fortunately not the positives we usually think about - it was all crowd numbers, television audiences and print media, all of which appear to have experienced solid increases, and in the case of bike […]
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Posted August 5th, 2007
Several weeks ago I wrote about this PSA being run by the RTA, well today it appears that the the fellas weren’t too happy with the ad and have now filed a complaint to the Advertising Standards Bureau.
AN RTA road safety campaign that suggests car hoons have small penises has unleashed a flood of complaints […]
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Posted August 3rd, 2007
Play!
Via Dopers Suck.
technorati tags: cycling, doping, games
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Posted August 3rd, 2007
Oh dear.
People tend to think women are safer drivers, but they are safe as long as they aren’t talking.
technorati tags: motoring,
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Posted August 2nd, 2007
Cadel Evans will be on the ABC’s Enough Rope program with Andrew Denton on Monday the 6th of August. The shows episodes and transcripts are usually available to watch and read online the following day so interested Yanks, Brits, Kiwis and Canucks won’t be left out. Denton is an entertaining interviewer so this could be […]
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