Posted July 31st, 2006
Paths to put more bums on bike seats.
All residents in the CBD and inner city would have a cycle path within five minutes of their home under a new plan to increase the number of bike journeys five-fold in the next 10 years. Parking stations with showers, change rooms and repair facilities would be […]
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Posted July 30th, 2006
Olympic and World Champion 100m sprinter Justin Gatlin tests positive for Testosterone - confirmed by the carbon isotope ratio analysis.
I cannot account for these results, because I have never knowingly used any banned substance, Gatlin said. Asked how he could have tested positive, his New York-based lawyer, Cameron Myler, said, that’s the question we’re all […]
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Posted July 29th, 2006
Future Perfect ponders mobility.
A mobile and wireless phone kiosk in Kamapala draws its power from a car battery (in the red box, photo below). Despite its bicyclesque design they were not particularly mobile - one or more tyres were often flat and they remained tethered in one place for the duration of the day.
Via we […]
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Posted July 28th, 2006
Simon Barnes gives his analysis of Pro Cycling. Sure he lashes out at the sport, but underneath the anger you sense a feeling of loss.
For the followers of the sport, three weeks of life have been invalidated; three weeks’ investment of time and energy and enthusiasm. For nothing. And it seems to me that the […]
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Posted July 28th, 2006
As I’ve noted before here and here there is a coming carbon drought. So, in what is sure to be just one in a spate of reports like it, we hear that boutique manufacturer M2 RACER has closed their doors and left us with this statement.
In the past few weeks, M2RACER’s supply of high modulus […]
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Posted July 28th, 2006
So it’s confirmed, Floyd Landis is the rider who has returned a positive “A” sample, needless to say this is huge, but we’ve still got to wait for the “B” side to be confirmed, and that process will no doubt be mired in layers of lawyers for months to come as I alluded to in […]
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Posted July 27th, 2006
Via Cyclingnews.
The UCI has announced that there was one case of an “adverse analytical finding following an anti-doping test carried out at the Tour de France 2006.” That means that one rider has had his A sample test positive for a banned substance. The rider has yet to be named, although his team, national federation, […]
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Posted July 27th, 2006
This one is hot, and it’s not just for the tourists - think city center transport from your office to a meeting or favourite lunch spot.
Pedapod in conjunction with Jetstar Airways are offering free passenger rides in Sydney from now to August 1st. For the entire week they will be running just like a regular […]
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Posted July 26th, 2006
Fearless Gearless.
Yep, that is right, smelly helmet syndrome is a problem currently sweeping the Nation. And come on people, there is just no need for it either. Now I know some well heeled folk simply toss their lid in the trash and buy new. But for the rest of us that is a no go. […]
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Posted July 26th, 2006
Treehugger writes it up.
Xylon.
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