Currently viewing the tag: "mountain"
“Reveal The Path,” a visually stunning adventure documentary that will ignite the dreamer in everyone, will be coming to the Grand Lake Theatre on Thursday, Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. The event is a benefit for the Bicycle Trails Council of the East Bay. “Reveal The Path” is the followup film from the creators of [...]
Burry Stander and his wife Cherise view thumbnail gallery No decisions on her own career at this time “I love you,” were the last words of mountain biker Burry Stander, to his wife Cherise before he was tragically killed by a taxi while on a training ride on Thursday in Shelley Beach in South Africa. [...]
An all Spanish final podium at the Vuelta (L-R): Alejandro Valverde, 2nd; Alberto Contador, 1st; and Joaquim Rodriguez, 3rd view thumbnail gallery 2013 route to contain one more mountain-top finish than 2012? Short, lung-burstingly steep ‘walls’; 17.3km-long gentle but interminable ascents; two mountaintop finishes in the race’s first three days and the Angliru to finish [...]
Recently we noticed a new tweeter in town – the Leith Cycle Club – and intrigued by the prospect of a pub based cycle club we got in touch to find out more and to ask them for a wee guest post for the blog. And here it is… Everybody loves a bike ride don’t [...]
Burry Stander view thumbnail gallery Memorial foundation to be established toward safer cycling Family, friends and the cycling community mourned the loss of Olympian Burry Stander after he was killed in an accident while training on Thursday. “No parent should ever have to see his child lying on a tarred road after an accident, knowing [...]
Jacques Boissinot / AP file Burry Stander, seen here in 2010, was hailed as a “South African icon and sporting great” by Oscar Pistorius. JOHANNESBURG – One of the world’s top mountain bikers died Thursday after being hit by a minibus taxi while training on a coastal road. Burry Stander, 25, narrowly missed out on a [...]
