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Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France
Trust but Verify gives us this literary heads up about Floyd's upcoming book.

Mount San Bruno Hill Climb, San Francisco
NashvilleCyclist.com diarist Katharine Carroll starts the year off right, victory!

I'll trade your bike for my kayak
Yeah I know, I am fascinated with Craigslist.

Her whole life is about the bicycle - She's L.A.'s pedal pusher

Representatives gear up to protect cycling interests
We need more representation like this in Congress. There aren't many Congressmen who can add bike mechanic to their resume, but the country would be a better place if more could.

Sounds fail to file lease legislation
I want the Nashville Sounds downtown, but I will not be disappointed if the ballpark's open is delayed beyond 2008. This news is important because this will eventually affect our criterium series at the Titans stadium. It has yet to be determined how much parking will be used at the football stadium for baseball games. When the games start I can envision having to schedule races around the baseball schedule. One way or another we will still have bike racing!

Car Boom Puts Europe on Road to a Smoggy Future
Note the picture of the townie cruiser that can carry your kids or groceries. The one thing that alternative fuels will create that none of us really want to see is more cars and congestion. The culture in Middle Tennessee for the bicycle as everyday transportation is light years away from a reality. As long as Europe and the US continue building roads people will continue buying cars.

Florida employs the perfect form against Ohio State
Total domination by Florida on Monday night, and it all started with Florida quarterback Chris Leak. This kid has taken his lumps over the years in Gainesville, but he delivered his team to the promised land. Instead of us seeing punks, thugs, criminals, me me me types, etc on Sports Center how about more face time for kids like Leak?

Quotes from Leak at the end of the article prove he understands the team concept, and more importantly that there's a right way and wrong way about doing things.

"It's the greatest feeling to be national champs," Leak said. "… I'm just so proud of how hard we worked over the four years, and we finally got to this point; then we took advantage of this opportunity. When you work hard, when you keep doing the right things and you are a good person, you get your schoolwork done, you graduate, when you are doing all the right things, eventually your time is going to come."

Motorola launch pedal phone at e-expo
Heck, let's put the Cannondale on a trainer, ride a steady 250 watts for about an hour and see what we can light up.

Nine get their heads shaved to support boy with cancer
I am partial to the shaved head look. They are also selling "Zach Attack" bracelets for $2 to benefit the St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis.

Bikeway in Austin named for Lance Armstrong

Cyclingnews 2006 Reader Poll Results
Paolo Bettini comes out on top, ahead of a surprising second place finish from Floyd Landis. American Kristin Armstrong was narrowly beaten by Nicole Cooke as the best female road rider, only 66 votes separated them out of 10,452 votes.

Cyclingnews 2006 Reader Poll Results - Best Photo
This reminds me, I have been meaning to do a photos of the year for NashvilleCyclist. I have enough material to make it interesting. Cyclingnews came up with some great shots. Number 1 is poster quality, but so is number 6.

Atlanta Cyclists Protest
Traffic calming isn't going over well with Buckhead area cyclists.

Bike riders take it slower - SlowSpokes bike club Maybe it's time to not only split our BToGS training ride into two groups, but possibly an even slower group to accommodate those wanting to do only 12-15mph. This woman in North Carolina met a need and it's proving successful.

Beginning cyclists won't feel left out in 2007Maybe they are on to something here. Here we are wanting to see more people on bicycles, yet we all keep getting faster and faster. Speed and distance affect affect whether or not someone will even attempt to ride. If you create it, will they come? This club in Tallahassee along with the one in North Carolina are proving the Field of Dreams strategy true. Nashville area bike shop owners, can you smell an opportunity here?