by Mark Lansing
It is long past time for a YHIHF tribute to Candi Murray. Her service to cycling, as head of the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association for 25 years, defies description—thus accounting for the delay.
Anyone who raced here between 1982 and 2007 remembers her. Fondly. Early on, the U.S. Cycling Federation monopolized the market on [...]
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Filed under: Interviews, Opinion, Racing, You Heard It Here First
Interview with Daimeon Shanks
by Dave Campbell
I met Daimeon Shanks as a student in my Freshman Science class at Newport High School in the fall of 1994. He was a bright, energetic, and pudgy kid. The next year he and a number of his friends got mountain bikes and joined my high school mountain [...]
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Filed under: Interviews, Racing, Training
by Sonya Ewan
When his ProTour Team Astana held a training camp in Albuquerque, New Mexico earlier in the year, 36-year-old Bend, Oregon native Chris Horner took a few minutes off the bike to talk about training, his new team and goals, and fantasy cycling.
Surely the top-contending team in the Tour de France this year, were [...]
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Filed under: Interviews, Racing, Training
by Lane Kagay
What got you interested in workbikes?
In the early 80s, I was in Switzerland working on a farm, which was a forerunner of the CSA concept. We were trying to figure out how to move food from the farm to the city without using fossil fuels. We studied animal traction, but found that to [...]
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Filed under: Cargo Bikes, Interviews
(T. Kenji Sugahara interviews Carl Decker, of Giant/Pearl Izumi)
by T Kenji Sugahara
K-Man: To get us started, let’s get a little background info from you. Where were you born, what are your vital stats, what lives in your backyard…
Deckerator: I’m 6’tall, 160 lbs, bald hair, blue eyes, 32 years of age. I’ve been a [...]
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Filed under: Interviews, MTB, Racing
by Ellee Thalheimer
If Portland is the “New York City of the bike world,” as Metal Cowboy author Joe Kurmaskie says, then BikePortland.org would essentially be the New York Times online. What Jonathan Maus originally started as a blog on oregonlive.com in 2005 has now turned into a nationally recognized news resource, political waypoint, and [...]
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Filed under: Interviews, Portland Area
An interview with cross-country cyclist and food lover Justin Ellis
by CAT Students David Baker, Isaiah Fine and Ben Cox
A few months ago, we got an email from a guy named Justin Ellis who said he was on an epic adventure to discover where his food came from by visiting farms across the country on [...]
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Filed under: Interviews, Youth Articles
by Ayleen Crotty
Candi Murray, a 25-year OBRA volunteer, is now retiring. Along with her husband Mike, Candi has been a tireless contributor to the local bike racing scene. For 10 years she was the Oregon representative for USA Cycling until OBRA broke from that organization. At that time, Candi became exclusively and aggressively involved in [...]
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Filed under: Interviews, Racing
by Ellee Thalheimer
Here’s an idea. Imagine touring across the country on your bike. Been done, right? Now imagine the ride is fully supported by a biodiesel vehicle driven by fellow band members who rock out with you at gigs as you stop at various locations across the country. It’s not such a bad fantasy. Amanda [...]
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Filed under: Art, Interviews, Travel
by Ellee Thalheimer
Willingly, happily, and resignedly, they cycle for incredible stints of time, day and night, taking “ditch naps,” nursing caffeinated beverages, meticulously following time and route regulations, and cheering each other on. They call themselves randonneurs. They don’t race each other. A randonneur competes with no one but his or herself. They ask [...]
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Filed under: Event Rides, Interviews, Road Riding, Travel
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