WILTON, N.Y. (AP) Former mountain biking world champion Melissa “Missy” Giove (gee-OH’-vee) has pleaded guilty to a federal drug conspiracy charge for helping run a ring that smuggled marijuana from California to the East Coast. She was arrested in upstate New York last June after one of the ring’s couriers… Read More →
Planning for Bike Summit 2010 is underway thanks to the leadership of The Bike Walk Alliance of Westchester/Putnam (yes, they changed their name). They are seeking to include more communities in the effort to make our region more walking and biking friendly. The next meeting is Tuesday January 19th at… Read More →
NEW YORK (AP) Bicyclists who planned to go topless to protest the removal of a Brooklyn bike lane have switched gears. Some pinned plastic breasts over their jackets as they rolled into a snowstorm. Dozens of protestors biked through an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of the Williamsburg section on Saturday. Bike… Read More →
NEW YORK (AP) Bicyclists planning a Saturday protest ride are calling it their “Freedom Ride” — free of clothing, that is. And they may be pedaling naked in a fierce snowstorm, if the forecast holds. The removal of clothing is meant as a protest over the removal of a bike… Read More →
This past Saturday Westchester Cycle Club held their annual holiday party. About 100 members enjoyed Indian food at the Coromandal Restaurant in New Rochelle. Anytime cycling club members get together in street cloths it’s always interesting. It’s difficult enough to remember names and faces during group rides. For me it’s… Read More →
How often have you walked into your local bike shop and not found the part you needed or the staff seems to be hiding in the back. Associated Press photographer Musadeq Sadeq captured this wonderful image of a Afghan bike shop owner working in his shop. Makes me thankful for… Read More →
DOUG FERGUSON,AP Golf Writer, Tiger Woods was selected Wednesday as Athlete of the Decade by U.S. sports editors, a result that reflects 10 years of greatness on the golf course rather than three weeks of headlines about a shocking sex scandal. Woods received 56 of the 142 votes cast by… Read More →
The Associated Press is asking sports editors around the nation to vote on their choice of athlete of the decade. Looks like Lance Armstrong is in the running. The AP has profiled some of the leading contenders in advance of announcing the winner. Something tells me his chances of winning… Read More →
Westchester Cycle Club filed a lawsuit in June of this year to require the state to pave over the rumble strips places along a 4.4 mile stretch of Route 100 in Yorktown and Somers. State Supreme Court Justice Nicholas Colabella dismissed the case because the club lacked standing to make… Read More →
CHARLES J. HANLEY,Associated Press Writers and JAN M. OLSEN,Associated Press Writers / COPENHAGEN (AP) It isn’t easy getting Italy’s city dwellers out of their Fiats, off their Vespa scooters and onto bicycles to ride to work, “like here in Copenhagen,” says an Italian environmental official. “It isn’t a matter of… Read More →