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8
Feb

Cyclist Levi Leipheimer is more than a monarch

leviSAN FRANCISCO – Susan Gorin calls it a “Levi sighting.”

The Santa Rosa mayor says she often hears reports from locals saying they had spotted professional cyclist Levi Leipheimer training on city roads.

“Levi doesn’t just live here,” Gorin says proudly. “He trains around here.”

Another local, Gary Wysocky, first spotted the cyclist training along a stretch of Sonoma County road. Wysocky said he was able to interrupt Leipheimer for a 10-minute chat, which turned out to be a good-luck encounter: Leipheimer would eventually help him become a Santa Rosa lawmaker.

“He endorsed me for City Council,” said Wysocky. Asked if he had ever gone on a bike ride with Leipheimer, he chuckled. “In my dreams,” he said.

That Leipheimer, a 12-year Santa Rosa resident, has become a hometown hero is of little surprise. After switching from competitive Alpine skiing to cycling at age 19, the humble 35-year-old climbing specialist grew into one of the world’s best athletes, twice winning the Amgen Tour of California (tour officials are now calling him “the King of California”), becoming the fourth American in history to finish on the podium of the Tour de France (2007) and earning an Olympic bronze medal last year in Beijing, among a long list of impressive cycling accomplishments….  More info

7
Feb

Cycling is the new golf, with or without clubs

Resplendent in the white, black and blue road-riding colours of the Sydney Cycling Club, the former president James “Doc” Guthrie steps off his $8000 bike, surveys the Adelaide cityscape and smiles.

“You know, the beauty of this place is that here people wave their hands at you; in Sydney they shake their fists. Here people throw you kisses; in Sydney they hurl abuse,” says Guthrie, 56, a university professor.

He is one of an estimated 2000 Sydneysiders in town for the Tour Down Under,…  More info


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6
Feb

Cycling Road Bike – For Levi, cycling isn’t a sport, it’s a lifestyle

The fire road, as Scott Nydam remembers it a year ago last summer, wasn’t so much a fire road as a butchered carving through dirt, rocks and fallen trees. The fire road in West Sonoma County had been long since abandoned and it would have been easy spraining an ankle — walking.

“So here we are, bombing down this fire road on our bikes,” said Nydam, a pro cyclist with BMC, talking about himself and Levi Leipheimer. “There’s stuff everywhere.”…  More info


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6
Feb

Winter Bicycle Festival to Spread the Love in Sonoma County Valentines Day Weekend in Santa Rosa

santa-rosaThe VELOVE Winter Bicycle Festival is about to transform downtown Santa Rosa into a bicycle wonderland during Valentines Day weekend, February 14-15. Held in conjunction with the 2009 Amgen Tour of California, VELOVE is packed with events for everyone, including bike competitions, race viewing parties, non-profit fundraising events, a pro race team signing and plenty more. It is a joint production between Bike Monkey, the City of Santa Rosa, Mainstreet and West Coast GoldSprints…  More info


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