Fumiyuki Beppu Profile

Fumiyuki Beppu (born April 10, 1983 in Kanagawa-ken) is a Japanese professional road racer who started his pro cycling career with the Discovery Channel Team in 2005. Known as Fumy, he is an overall rider for Team RadioShack, starting with the 2010 season. Beppu started racing bikes when he was only 9-years old, entering local races [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/fumiyuki-beppu-profile/

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Love Notes

I can't even tell you how many times I've seen a beauty of a bike, hand built or all vintage, parked near the post office or my grocery store, and I've just had to leave a love note. So there I am, scrounging around in my backpack, looking for a pen and scrap of paper and suspiciously skulking around a bike that isn't even mine. Lately I've taken to carrying some pre-made love notes, just so I can be a little more stealthy in my distribution.

When I'm feeling super-duper fancy, I use handmade Bike Tags by Heroes and Criminals. They're letterpress by hand and are so pretty that you'll have a hard time letting them go...until you see the perfect bike.

Less fancy (and free!) are spoke cards from yourbikeishot.com (where you can download the cards in pdf format). Publications intern extraordinaire Heather told me about them and I like to carry a bunch around and reward particularly cute bicycles. After all, the world would be a far duller place without our brilliant bicycles.

Photos 1 and 3 by Sarah Raz. Photo 2 by Heroes and Criminals.

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SHIPPING NEWS is brought to you by Sarah Raz, sales representative/outreach coordinator/lover of all things outdoors. She also wishes Eddy Merckx was her father (sorry Dad!)


Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2011/08/love-notes.html

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Small Spaces.

Small Spaces. I like to compartmentalize things. Keep things in their orderly place and space.  The lines are clearly drawn, and the borders are not threatened.  I personally like to color coordinate my closet, and organize my flour and sugar containers in decreasing height.  What I wouldn?t do for a label maker. At times, compartmentalizing [...]

Source: http://alisonstarnes.com/2011/08/21/small-spaces/

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Where your bike lock might be worth more than the bicycle

My son is heading to China for his fall semester and I stumbled across some information about getting around by bicycle in Beijing in his student handbook.

The book says bikes are still very useful for going short distances in the cities. They're not expensive and "if you plan to stay for more than a semester, it may be wise to invest in one."

That's apparently what a person who is selling her bike at TheBeijinger.com did.  That bike is selling for 350 yuan, about $50-$55. It comes with that sweet front basket decorated with the butterfly, above ...

Source: http://www.bikingbis.com/blog/_archives/2011/8/15/4877773.html

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Hortobagyi Husos Palacsinta (meaty Hungarian pancakes)

Hungarians are a proud people and nothing seems to excite their dignity more than food. Meeting peter, a Hungarian restaurateur at his part time home The White Swan in Golders Green, I began to understand why. For Hungarians food is...

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/thehungrycyclist/~3/GKMtyIcjw4U/hortobagyi-husos-palacsinta-meaty-hungarian-pancakes.html

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Yarosolav Popovych out of the Tour

Yaroslav Popovych will not take the start of stage 10 in the Tour de France. Since Sunday Popovych has fever. As the rest day didn?t bring any amelioration, the team decided not to let him start in Aurillac. The former Tour de France stage winner will undergo some extra tests today. In stage five Popovych crashed [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/yarosolav-popovych-out-of-the-tour/

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Andreas Klöden Out of the Tour

And then there were 5! After just a few minutes of pedaling into today?s Stage 13, Team RadioShack?s Andreas Klöden was forced to abandon his Tour effort this year succumbing to numerous injuries from several bad crashes. With numerous bruises and bad scrapes the most serious injury was Andreas? back, which caused him severe [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/andreas-kloden-out-of-the-tour/

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Team Boardman Cycling Plus ? Chris Bowler

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 Chris gets in the zone? Chris Bowler Lives: Bracknell, Berks Age: 33 Height: 1.87m Weight: 102kg Rides: Kona Jake, Cervelo S1 Reasons to ride: Lose weight, change my lifestyle, break [...]

Source: http://magazine.bikeradar.com/2011/08/11/team-boardman-cycling-plus-chris-bowler-3/

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