Posted May 31st, 2007
To celebrate World Environment Day, the Chauvel will be showing Detour De France on Monday June 4 at 6.30pm.
Paparazzi like, I’ll be there, camera in one hand and a glass of Champers in the other, book a ticket and join me for a night of cycling larrikinism and environmental goodness. Here is the […]
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Posted May 30th, 2007
Regular readers would know that though it’s a complex and contested idea I have a lot of time for Peak Oil theory. Of course it’s not a question of if we will ever run out of the black stuff, more a question of what can replace it in our lives, and what do we do […]
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Posted May 30th, 2007
Via Cyclingnews, Indurain on Riis.
I don’t want to detract from what Riis did, but my impression is that he did not overwhelm me, that it was me who lost the Tour. I did all I could to be in front and at the end I did not reach this goal. Riis and many others were […]
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Posted May 29th, 2007
Dave Moulton has written an interesting generational perspective on the culture of doping in cycling, as always it’s well worth a read.
All this changed on July 13, 1967 when British cyclist Tom Simpson (Top left.) died on the slopes Mt. Ventoux in Southern France. This was a mountain stage of that year’s Tour, and a […]
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Posted May 28th, 2007
Recently, the ABC’s excellent Catalyst science show featured a full evening of programming on energy, environment and solutions, including a People Power segment on Sydney’s bike bus initiative . This You Tube grab is well worth a watch and not just because it features the tireless Fiona Campbell, in fact, an initiative like the […]
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Posted May 28th, 2007
Kelly Pickett in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Heckler soapbox.
My outrage at the injustices that cyclists suffer was ignited when I happened upon lower George Street, The Rocks. There was a cyclist, pedalling at a good speed beside a bus that was about to turn at an intersection. For no apparent reason, the bus driver opened […]
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Posted May 27th, 2007
Yep, the roundup is back, this time on Sundays. It never really died, it was just resting.
Opening this stanza we have bad news coming from trackie and power meter blogger Alex Simmons, however what strikes me about Alex’ very matter of fact post is his optimism - new challenges await and he’s clearly up to […]
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Posted May 27th, 2007
Link.
Via Boing Boing.
technorati tags: cycling, bicycles, art, installations
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Posted May 26th, 2007
“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
Or in the words of Bjarne Riis.
That also means that I did things that I shouldn’t have and I have regretted that ever since. Those were mistakes that I […]
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Posted May 25th, 2007
Bloomberg.
Riis News Conference. Denmark’s Bjarne Riis, who won the 1996 Tour de France with the Telekom team, will hold a news conference in Copenhagen tomorrow, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported. Brian Nygaard, a spokesman for the CSC team that Riis now manages, didn’t immediately answer a phone message seeking comment.
technorati tags: cycling, doping, riis
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