THEY SAY there’s one way to make a small fortune in cycling. You start with a large fortune.
Mill Valley’s Charles Moore knows that harsh reality better than most in his sport. As President and CEO of McGuire Real Estate, Moore was the driving force behind the Marin-based McGuire Cycling Team. Over the course of six seasons his riders won races, stood on podiums and represented his company at events across America.
But two years ago, when the global economy tanked and the real estate bubble burst, Moore could not longer justify spending his company’s money on something as seemingly frivolous as a bike team  … Details
Several naked bicyclists were stopped by police and told to cover up Friday night on Capitol Hill during a World Naked Bike Ride event.
Officers told the cyclists they were in violation of indecent exposure laws. The riders were ordered to get dressed or risk prosecution, according to bike ride organizers.
But the bicyclists themselves say they were merely exercising their First Amendment rights and were carrying out Seattle’s longstanding naked cycling tradition …Â Details
USA Cycling saw its women’s development initiatives pay off over the weekend as Mara Abbott (Boulder, Colo./Peanut Butter & Co TWENTY 12) grabbed the overall classification at the Giro Donne stage race. The national governing body continued its women’s development initiatives in BMX last week as well, hosting up-and-coming women at a world championships prep camp in California. On the grassroots side of USA Cycling’s programs, a regional development camp took place at St. Mary’s College for aspiring young road cyclists … Details
There are two days in every great athlete’s comeback that somehow still catch us by surprise.
The day he announces it. And the day that removes any lingering doubts whether it was a good idea in the first place.
Lance Armstrong suffered through one of the latter Sunday at the Tour de France. His comeback isn’t officially over; the race still has two weeks left to run. But Armstrong would need a handful of younger, fitter rivals to all take a wrong turn—then stay lost for nearly 15 minutes—just to make up the ground he’s already lost … Details