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Lance Armstrong was apologetic and avoided launching into a verbal war with race organizers following the protest that marred the ninth stage of the Giro d’Italia.
“It’s an unfortunate situation, an accumulation of days and days of frustration and I think fear on a lot of people’s parts and then this war of words and this war of power afterwards that we have to avoid,†Armstrong said in a video message posted late Monday, the Giro’s first rest day.
Armstrong played an integral role in a group protest that ended up annulling times in Sunday’s stage because riders considered the city circuit through downtown Milan overly dangerous.
Armstrong was seen discussing the perils of the circuit with the race organization’s car as he pedaled through Milan… Details
Hurry up summer season! We’ve just been reading about the all-new bike park which will be opening in Val Thorens this summer and it got us so excited we had to put fingers-to-keyboard straight away to tell you about it.
The park, which is open to all, is over three kilometres long and boasts four different zones, with a total of 25 modules of varying levels, for your biking pleasure. All accessible via the Cairns bubble lift, the park will surely be a fave place to hang out for the two wheelers this summer season.
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An injury on a mountain bike sets in motion a local entrepreneur’s business concept
When Adam Stephens flew over a 12-foot ledge on his mountain bike two years ago, he had no idea the resulting injury would spin off a business.
Stephens, an avid cyclist, broke the front end of his mountain bike and compressed two disks in his lower back, which made traditional cycling too painful for him. Stephens used his injury as a catalyst to create a prototype for an off-road, recumbent tricycle that could tackle the terrain he loved while taking the pressure off his spine. “The original trikes just didn’t fit me,†he said… DetailsÂ