Dopage
Romance and bike racing scandals both just sound better in French: Tour de France – Dopage RASMUSSEN QUITTE LE TOUR !
Archive of posts filed under the cycling category.
Hibiscus
hibiscus Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. There are several different ways I ride my bike. One is all spandex and zooming fast, which I love. But the best way is to wander, making a series of random decisions that take me all over the place. Riding with friends Saturday on one of those rides, we ended …
More Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
Using the bike racks on Albuquerque’s buses
Paseo del Nordeste Bike Trail
It’s not exactly Albuquerque’s most scenic bike trail, but I’d have to say this is really my favorite.
Sam Abt
It’s that time of year: So it was a holiday. Festivities included houses decorated with red, white and yellow paper flowers, balloons and pennants, like many other villages en route. There was even a giant bicycle built by schoolchildren out of beaverboard and flowers displayed outside the town hall on Place François Mitterrand. Best was …
L’Affaire Festina
Big Toe, The Wrench Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I knew Big Toe had some historic interest in bike racing, so I asked him this morning if he wanted to go over with us to Mom and Dad’s to watch the prologue of Le Tour. He said “No,” in a way that puzzled me. When we …
The Silver Bike Boulevard
The folks at BikeABQ are advocating what I think is a fabulous idea: the Silver Bike Boulevard. The idea is to take a street that is already low traffic, slow speed and turn it into a bike-friendly boulevard. Silver’s perfect for the job: it parallels Central, which is bad for bikes. It has a lot …
California Zephyr
California Zephyr Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Riding the Coal Avenue bridge over the railyard this morning I saw this: the California Zephyr, a string of cars in the old fashion, being towed behind the Amtrak. I had to stop and chat up the proprietor, a fellow named Alvin Bishop. The cars were built in 1948, …
Things I Have Seen
Stopped on my bike at a red light this morning, a scooter pulls up behind me. I glance over my shoulder and smile in greeting at an elderly couple – perhaps 70 – both in shorts. As they speed past me when the light turns green, I notice that the woman, sitting on the back, …
The Bike Trail to Nowhere
From today’s West Side Journal, a discussion of the bike trails (or lack thereof) on the new extension they just completed of Paseo del Norte: “Oh my,” John says. “When you get to the top of the hill, where the road narrows, there is not only no bike lane, but no shoulder. And not only …