ECHO – Mountain bikers, dust off that bike and get ready for the first MTB event of 2009! Echo, Oregon (map) plays host to Echo Red to Red on February 22. Part of the Oregon Mountain Bike Series, Echo Red to Red is designed to showcase the High Desert mountain biking trail system near the [...]
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Filed under: Eastern Oregon, MTB, Racing
by David Feldman
The Competition Bicycle: A Photographic History
by Jan Heine, 2008
Vintage Bicycle Press, hardcover, 176 pages. $60
From high wheels to fat mountain bike tires, on roads, tracks, dirt paths and rocky trails, short sprints to ultra marathon distances, bicycles have been raced for as long as they have existed in any form.
There have been books [...]
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Filed under: Art, Framebuilding, Photos, Racing, Reviews
No person in history has traveled farther on flat water under his own power in one day than Greg Kolodziejzyk [ko LA jezik]. On September 9th, 2008 Greg pedaled his human powered boat, the Critical Power 2, 245.16 km (151.3 miles) around a circular lake course on Whitefish Lake in Montana, beating kayaker Carter Johnson’s [...]
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Filed under: Framebuilding, HPV Racing, Racing
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
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