Team RadioShack?s Sophomore Season: Plenty of Reason for Excitement in 2011

The racing?s well underway in the 2011 ProTour season, and it?s clear that Team RadioShack (TRS) means to make its mark during its sophomore campaign. With the team?s well-known founder, Lance Armstrong, announcing his retirement after this year, and already concluding participation in international races for the season, there?s plenty of opportunity for the [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/team-radioshack%e2%80%99s-sophomore-season-plenty-of-reason-for-excitement-in-2011/

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Recap: Tour of Flanders (Ronde van Vlaanderen)

Hills are bad enough, Pave is not a preferred surface for cycling. Put the two together and you have a punishing prospect for a cycle race. And so it is with the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Thrills, spills leg-pain, guts and all out exhaustion are guaranteed in every running of this World Pro Tour race. Falling [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/recap-tour-of-flanders-ronde-van-vlaanderen/

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Team Boardman Cycling Plus ? Sean Lacey

Team Boardman Cycling Plus  will be updating you each week with the highs and lows of their training as part of the team. This week Sean learns the importance of rest and recovery?. Sean Lacey Lives: Shropshire Age: 40 Height: 1.88m Weight: 93kg Reasons to ride: mid-life fitness crisis and to make my 71-year-old roadie [...]

Source: http://magazine.bikeradar.com/2011/08/04/team-boardman-cycling-plus-sean-lacey-2/

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Klöden, Horner Finish One, Two In Basque Tour

Team RadioShack?s Andreas Klöden (GER) and Chris Horner (USA) finished off a great week of racing in warm and sunny Spain with powerful time trial performances that set them at the top of the general classification after the concluding 6th stage of the Tour of Basque Country today. Klöden fell just shy of winning [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/kloden-horner-finish-one-two-in-basque-tour/

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Cycling in Copenhagen Vs London

I have a question can London really be ever, a commuter friendly city for cyclist? After watching the video of cyclist commuting on the streets of Copenhagen streets, it becomes clear why cycling commuting works in Copenhagen. It?s a culture it a way of life. Every need of cyclists has been considered, cycling is for all skills levels in Copenhagen some as young as 4 years old are riding to school, you have 50% of women cycling and even the motorist have a better understanding of cycling as they would have being cycling from a very young age themselves. ?It just great I am totally sold?

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How to secure your shed or garage and keep your bike safe!

This post was inspired by a fellow cyclist that had his bike in a standard shed not locked to a thing not even the garden rack, ?Stolen? £2000.00 worth of bike gone, by spending less than £50.00 to secure his bike a bit better he would of most properly still have his bike. I don?t know where you keep your bike but a lot of people keep their bike or indeed bikes in a shed or garage, unless you have these on your home alarm system, if you have a home alarm system that is, your bike could be easy pickings for any bike thief.

*Here are a few things you could do to slow down the average bike thief.*

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For Love of the Game

Darren O?Donnell is not the first cyclist to attempt riding to every Major League Baseball park in one season. For instance, back in June 2006 we ran a feature in Adventure Cyclist magazine titled ?30 Ballparks on a Bicycle? (pdf). In the story, Charlie Hamilton relates his experiences cycling a very zigzag route from Atlanta home to Boston, pedaling to all the parks while raising funds for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

To our knowledge, however, O?Donnell is the first individual to have his story picked up by ESPN?s Baseball Tonight, the daily tubular bible of America?s pastime. As reported by ESPN?S Jim Caple in July: ?The Tour de France starts next week, and ? the world?s top cyclists will ride more than 2,000 miles and climb over some of the highest, steepest roads in the Alps and Pyrenees. Which is nothing, compared to what Darren O?Donnell is doing. On his own personal Tour de Baseball, he?s already cycled nearly three times that far ? and he still has about 6,000 miles to pedal.

?The only way this could be a more grueling trip is if he were riding a tandem bike with Prince Fielder seated behind him,? Caple continued, referring to the 285-pound Milwaukee Brewers first baseman.

The 24-year-old O?Donnell, a car-free Western Washington University grad, began his quest by hitting the season opener at the Seattle Mariners? Safeco Field. When I last checked, he was on schedule to wrap it up in late September at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.

?I?ve loved baseball for as long as I can remember,? he told Caple. ?And I?m fascinated by how different each stadium is, but how the game is the same.?

Thanks to a letter of introduction Darren and his dad, Jim, crafted and sent out to all 30 Major League clubs, the young cyclist has enjoyed a fair share of red-carpet treatment. For instance, he got to meet one of his father?s heroes, Hall of Famer Tony Perez, a former Cincinnati Red who?s currently a special assistant in the Florida Marlins organization.

?That was something else,? Jim O?Donnell said. ?It seems like something great happens everywhere [Darren] goes. We?re just extremely proud of him. He set his mind to do this, he planned it out, and now he?s getting it done. It?s fantastic.?


YouTube video from NewsChannel 5 WEWS-TV (ABC) Cleveland.

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BIKING WITHOUT BORDERS is posted every Monday by Michael McCoy, Adventure Cycling?s field editor, and highlights a little bit of this or a little bit of that ? just about anything, as long as it?s related to traveling by bicycle. Mac also compiles the organization's twice-monthly e-newsletter Bike Bits, which goes free-of-charge to more than 41,000 readers worldwide.

Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2011/08/for-love-of-game.html

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