Archive for the ‘Cycling’ Category
“Kiwi birds don’t fly – they cycle, for 20 months, alone, on a cheap mountain bike, through dangerous countries just to get back home … from London.”
The quote was posted on Kylie Phaup-Stephens’ Face Book wall by a friend part-way through an epic return from her OE which has seen her fend off men trying to break into her tent in Iran, eat out of rubbish bins and stay with the New Zealand Army in Afghanistan.
If she ever  … Details
Handbuilt bicycles, draught beer, pizza and music – chances are that almost everyone has a passion for at least one of these things. Now, Portland, Oregon-based Metrofiets Cargo Bikes has combined all four in an ingenious little vehicle unofficially known as the Beer Bike. The custom-built bicycle, inspired by Dutch cargo bikes, has space for two full-sized pressurized beer kegs, and features 50 feet (15 meters) of cooling coils per keg, an ice tray, an inlaid wooden bar with two beer taps, a rear rack designed for carrying pizza boxes, and a solar-powered custom wooden boom box that mounts like a pannier  … Details & Pictures
Cycling in 2010 was struck by a series of crises that threatened to wipe out most of its efforts to fight doping, with the sport’s two biggest names involved in scandals.
Seven-times Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong was embroiled in a U.S. federal investigation triggered by former team mate and disgraced 2006 champion Floyd Landis’s allegations, while three-times winner Alberto Contador failed a test for the banned anabolic agent Clenbuterol.
The biological passport, a tool developed by the International Cycling Union (UCI) to help the fight against doping, showed  … Details