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 Mark Lansing
One of YHIHF’s heroes from the Tour of California (featured two months ago), prologue winner Fabian Cancellara, recently topped that victory with a superb win at the 2008 Milan-San Remo bicycle race.
Almost 200 miles long, much of it along the beautiful Mediterranean coast of Italy, this is arguably the most classic of the [...]
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Filed under: Racing, Road Riding, Road Rules, Safety, You Heard It Here First
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
Circus street fair in Portland celebrates vibrant bike culture
The circus is coming to Mississippi Avenue! The Mississippi community is coming together to put on the best circus street fair in town on Saturday, June 14. Get ready for clowns, jugglers, unicycle jousting, sculptural bikes, freakishly tall bikes and other two-wheeled creations beyond your wildest dreams. [...]
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Filed under: Art, Event Rides, Portland Area, Racing
by Jim Anderson
Fast, fun bike racing for everyone starts up again this summer at Portland International Raceway.
Portland International Raceway (PIR) is usually filled with racecars roaring around the track. But on Monday nights this summer, hundreds of cyclists will take over PIR as Lakeside Bicycles Monday Night Races kicks off its 12th season.
“Bicycle racing [...]
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Filed under: Portland Area, Racing
by Mark Lansing
On February 18, 2008, the Powers That Be joined forces to send me to the Bay Area to cover the Tour of California.
In an eight-day stage race that has rapidly risen to become the top field annually (and perhaps ever) in the United States, top national and international stars were listed to start, [...]
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Filed under: Racing, Road Riding, Safety, You Heard It Here First
by Beau Poling, age 15
It was an average day at Eugene Bicycle Works, the bike shop where I volunteer on Saturdays. I was working on bikes with my dad when Tom popped in. Tom is the ad rep for Oregon Cycling. We started to talk about BMX and I asked if he wanted to [...]
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Filed under: BMX, Racing, Youth Articles
by Lance Maguire
“On the gate, riders ready—watch the light!” The cadence of an ABA BMX race raises the adrenaline of the participant and inspires fear in the heart of the parent involved.
Since the inception of the American Bicycle Association, racing on a bicycle has not quite been the same. With the same bicycle [...]
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Filed under: BMX, Racing
by Mike Ripley
Words can barely describe what took place and what it took to finish the 3rd annual Test of Endurance 50 presented by Mudslinger Events and Cyclotopia of Corvallis. The event brought together 128 men and women—from weekend racing warriors to adventure-seeking trail riders—in the coastal foothills northwest of Mary’s Peak. The Test of [...]
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Filed under: MTB, Racing, Willamette Valley
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