Klöden 3rd Horner 4th After Day One of Basque Tour

Team RadioShack?s Andreas Klöden (GER) continuing to display exceptional form this season came in 3rd today with ?The Shack?s? Christopher Horner (USA) close behind in today?s 150-kilometer mountainous first stage of the Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco, Tour of the Basque Country in Northeast Spain. This first of 6 stages was deemed by some [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/kloden-3rd-horner-4th-after-day-one-of-basque-tour/

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Ben King Profile

Ben King Profile Benjamin King (born March 22, 1989 in North Garden, Virginia) is an American professional road-racing cyclist who moves up to Team RadioShack for the 2011 season.  Ben started racing at the age of 14 showing great promise and winning junior national titles before signing with Kelly Benefit Strategies.  He attended college at Virginia [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/ben-king-profile/

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Oliveira Wins the Time Trial Championship in Portugal

Portuguese rider Nelson Oliveira has just won the national time trial championships on the circuit of Pataias in Portugal. Things are really happening for the rider who is in his first year as a professional, riding for Team Radioshack. Just a little over a week ago Oliveira finished fourth in the Tour de Suisse time trial, [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/oliveira-wins-the-time-trial-championship-in-portugal/

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Act Now ? Save National Cycling Resources

If you care about creating better cycling conditions in America, please consider sending two emails ? right now ? to your United States Senators to urge them to maintain federal funding for investment in biking and walking facilities. Please click on this link, enter your zip code, and follow the instructions. It will take just a few minutes and will make a big difference in sustaining the 20-year national commitment to modest and effective investment in active transportation like biking and walking.

As background, Adventure Cycling and the America Bikes coalition have been tracking action on a new federal transportation bill. Several leaders in Congress, especially Senator Tom Coburn (OK), have said that they want to eliminate a program called Transportation Enhancements (TE), which funds biking and walking infrastructure. These Members of Congress want to kill the TE program, despite its popularity and cost-effectiveness in building new bike facilities and despite research showing that the program generates more jobs per million dollars invested than regular road projects. Finally, the TE program makes up less than 2 percent of all federal transportation funding (while biking and walking make up well over 10 percent of all American trips).

To keep improving cycling and bike travel conditions across our great land, we need your help to maintain Congressional support for the TE program and bike/walk infrastructure investment. Again, please click on this link and make a difference for cycling in the USA.

Thanks for reading this, for taking immediate action, and for sharing this with all your cycling friends.

Photo Caption: Adventure Cycling's Colorado Family Fun Tour on the Glenwood Canyon Trail along the Colorado River near Glenwood Springs, CO. Thousands of great bike/walk facilities like this have been built with Transportation Enhancement dollars, now in jeopardy in the US Congress. Photo courtesy of Jim Sayer.

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JIM SAYER is executive director of Adventure Cycling Association.

Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2011/09/act-now-save-national-cycling-resources.html

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Getting There: Yakima Sidewinder Cartop Carrier

We knew that as soon as we picked up Lady CoMo we would be faced with the challenge of transporting her. We had a bicycle car top carrier from Volkswagen, but there was no tandem carrier available for it. Also, although the Volkswagen carrier is made by Thule, it is a lower end product (more [...]

Source: http://cycleseven.org/getting-there-yakima-sidewinder-cartop-carrier

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