Each year the Dirt Rag/Bicycle Times staff has a friendly intra-office competition and we (try to) keep track of when we ride to work. A simple grid representing the days of the week listed vertically, and our names written horizontally, is as high-tech as we get. As usual, the staff tallied some strong commuting numbers in 2009.
The staff accumulated a combined 470.5 days commuted by bicycle, covering a grand total of  … Details
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong broke ground on a new cancer research center Monday while capping his preparation for the Tour Down Under, combining the charitable works and the cycling ambitions that lured from retirement 12 months ago.
Armstrong used last year’s Australian race, the first event of the ProTour season, to launch his comeback from a 3 1/2-year retirement, emphasizing at the time that his charitable and competitive objectives shared equal priority … Details
Even before he’s saddled up for the first time in this week’s Santos Tour Down Under, world champion Cadel Evans has been forced to concede defeat in one major race.
The champion Australian cyclist said he was a clear second-placegetter in the popularity stakes when it came to comparisons between he and cycling legend Lance Armstrong, also riding this week’s Tour …Â Details
Lance Armstrong says his decision to abandon a personal and independent drug testing program is justified because cycling’s biological passport makes the initiative unnecessary.
Seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong pledged when he returned to cycling last year after a three-year retirement he would submit to a rigid, independent regime of drug testing and that the results of those tests would be made public through a Web site.
He said Saturday he quickly found that … Details