Cycling

Why One S.F. Cyclist Could Give a Shit That Lance Armstrong Doped

Everyone is talking about Lance Armstrong. "Will Armstrong go to prison?" ponders the Guardian [http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2013/01/16/lance-armstrong-and-sf-financier]. "What's the Oprah angle?" bids the New York Times. "Should we forgive Lance Armstrong?" the Chronicle asks of its readers (spoile ... More >>

Tour de NorCal

Lance Armstrong Hires Famous S.F. Attorney, New USPS Sponsorship Details Emerge

It's all about who owned what and when.​Lance Armstrong has added two more San Francisco attorneys to his defense team to help ward off possible charges that he was doping while cycling the Tour de France. Additionally, SF Weekly has more details on the 1996-2004 U.S. Postal Service cycling t ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Doping Story Points Toward S.F. Company

It's about the EPO.​CBS' 60 Minutes shook the sporting world Sunday with extraordinary doping accusations involving the seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong. According to Armstrong's former teammate Tyler Hamilton, Armstrong dosed his own teammates post-race with droppers-full of st ... More >>

International Peloton Skips S.F. for First Time in Decade

No Shaven-legged, 2-percent-body-fat Europeans allowed!​For the first time in 10 years, the international professional bicycle-racing circuit will bypass San Francisco, while today's stage three of America's biggest cycling event, the Tour of California, is skipping the city with a jaunt from Aubu ... More >>

Andrew Tilin, Local Journalist, Gets Busted for Steroids After Writing Tell-All Book

If aging duffers want to get caught doping, they must publish books like this one.​The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has announced a two-year athletic competition ban for Andrew Tilin after the 46-year-old Oakland journalist and amateur cyclist released a book titled The Doper Next Door: My Strange and ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Case Takes BALCO Investigator Jeff Novitzky To France

Look what you've done!! I'm melting, melting. ​Jeff Novitzky, the USDA investigator famed for pursuing Barry Bonds in the BALCO steroids case, was in Lyon, France this week chasing evidence that cycling star Lance Armstrong doped in violation of multimillion dollar sponsorship agreements with the ... More >>

Forbes Falsely Tags SF Examiner Owner Phil Anschutz As Elite Pro Cyclist

Does this mean I get to race, too?​A profile appearing in the Nov. 8 issue of Forbes magazine suggests that Phil Anschutz, the 70-year-old billionaire oil, rail, telecom and entertainment barron who owns the San Francisco Examiner, is also an elite international athlete, besting professional compe ... More >>

Lance Armstrong-Gavin Newsom Meeting Great Distraction From Doping Investigation

What, Lance worry?​Lance Armstrong's whirlwind publicity tour of San Francisco this week was a textbook example of a damage control strategy in which a public figure faced with scandal strenuously seeks to act as if there aren't any problems, according to PR experts quoted by the Associated Press. ... More >>

Drag Racers -- Literally -- Busted By Park Rangers

You! Race over! ​Wednesday night's DFL Cross Dress Cyclocross event -- in which some 300 athletes, many of them in drag, mounted their cycles for a clandestine race -- broke up about 15 minutes before the finish when an San Francisco park ranger pulled up and began hollering for racers to get off ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Hires Bill Clinton Whitewater Attorney Mark Fabiani

Matt SmithI'd better have someone look after that pain in my ass...​Lance Armstrong has further lawyered up in the face of possible federal doping allegations by adding former Bill Clinton Whitewater counsel Mark Fabiani to his burgeoning legal team. Fabiani specializes in steering scandal-plagued ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Lawyers Up; Doper Teammate Tyler Hamilton Spills to Feds

What's in the cup, Lance? ​The criminal investigation into the U.S. Postal Service-sponsored team of cycling champion Lance Armstrong took a vast leap forward today with reports that former teammate Tyler Hamilton has agreed to speak with federal investigators. Hamilton, an Olympic gold medal ... More >>

Interpol, World Anti-Doping Agency Launch Investigations of Lance Armstrong

No, no, not that way. This way...​At this point, who isn't investigating Lance Armstrong? The World Anti-Doping Agency has joined the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Attorney's office to look into allegations that directors of Armstrong's former U.S. Postal Service Cycling Team conducted ... More >>

Wall Street Journal Planning Lance Armstrong Doping Bombshell

Might this affect Lance's concentration?​The Wall Street Journal, which for a week has been rumored to be preparing a Game of Shadows-style story detailing doping allegations against seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, announced in Friday's paper that it plans to release just such ... More >>

Floyd Landis doping scandal: The S.F. connection

Disgraced Cyclist Floyd Landis Says Lance Armstrong a Doper

Dennis BuddLance Armstrong and two other Tour of California participants have been accused of being dope-users​Sigh of relief for race sponsor Amgen: Drugs Lance Armstrong accused of using made by competing company.The Amgen Tour of California bicycle race was rocked Thursday by accusations from 2 ... More >>

Scenes from Amgen Tour of California's San Francisco Start

A morning drizzle and a mid-workaday-morning roll-out-time led to scant crowds at the Ocean Beach start of Tuesday's stage of the Tour of California cycling race. Those who attended got a real taste of bicycle racing, big-time European -style, in which teams of athletes who dress (and weigh) like jo ... More >>

Lance Armstrong's Derriere Exposed, Now That He's Lost His Levi

Levi LeipheimerLevi Leipheimer, the petite, bald-headed San Rafael resident who until Thursday was considered a possible dark horse to win the Tour de France, dropped out Friday with a wrist fracture suffered in a crash during Wednesday's stage, according to press reports.Though Leipheimer's Astana ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Tour of California Explained: Cycling ValHella

Part III of our explainer of California's new favorite sporting event. Read Part II here, and Part I here. Q. In  your installment about Tuesday's stage victor, Norseman Thor Hushovd, you said bike racing's low-impact training meant fewer injuries and greater athleticism. So is cycling a sportsman' ... More >>

So, How Many People SHOULD Show Up To Watch Cycling on a Workday in Driving Rain? Depends on What Paper You Write For

Denigrate the boss' big bike race? I MEANT to do that!San Francisco print media coverage of the Tour of California cyclists moistly whizzing through our city streets provided a glimpse into the mindsets of our local newspapers. When it comes to drenched fans lining the course, was the glass half emp ... More >>

We're Good Sports

Fixie-Fashionistas Find Olympic Outlaw Cred

Saddle Up

SF Weekly Letters

Can't We All Just Roll Along?

There is a way bike riders and car drivers can more safely coexist, and help the environment.

Cyclists Get Blamed for Accidents More Than Drivers

Chron Reports on Deadly Roads For Cycling, Bike Coalition Responds

Bay Area Cycling Deaths Increase

Bicycle Grief

For years, San Francisco bicyclists have ignored stop signs and other traffic laws without repercussions. Not anymore

Shake-down Tour

Is this what you get when a rapacious American capitalist takes U.S. bike racing for a spin?

This Is Your Sport Off Drugs

If only baseball would deal with the drug problem instead of cowering in fear

Doping Scandal

Only this one has to do with a doctor who tried to stop athletes from using performance-enhancing drugs

Legal Complications on Steroids

If Lance Armstrong were found to have been on drugs, and his S.F. handlers knew it, sponsors could demand their money back, and perhaps change sports in the U.S. forever

Let Me Ride

Cycling on celluloid

Tour de Farce

Lance Armstrong, Thom Weisel, and questions about anti-doping efforts in American cycling

Toward a Cyclocross Ethic

Why an outlaw bicycle race is a perfect metaphor for opposition to the Bush administration's greed-based Ownership Society

Parks Reborn

Celebrate a shoreline renaissance

Kraftwerk

Tour de France Soundtracks

It's the Economic Development, Stupid

Our lefty supervisors need to remember: In an economic downturn, it's not smart or progressive to go around killing jobs

Letters to the Editor

Week of May 28, 2003

This Is Your Sport, on Dope

State Sen. Don Perata's bill on drug testing for pro athletes isn't nearly tough enough on doped-up athletes or their enablers

The Best Ambassador Money Can Buy?

Republican mega-donor Howard Leach is reportedly headed to France. At least we're not sending him to an important country.

Best Organized Anarchy

Critical Mass

Cracker Morons Who Maim

Bicyclists vs. motorist cracker morons and their inbred Sacramento siblings

Postscript

Ride of Passage

Reel World

Road to Redemption

Bad luck and a head injury couldn't kill him. Poverty just made him stronger. Now, freewheeling Bay Area bicycling legend Mike Neel is staging another comeback by coaching professional women's racing.

Pedal to the Mettle

Will Europhiles wring the barf out of Bay Area cyclocross racing?

Recycling America

As the millennium approaches, the country is engulfed in a bicycling craze that's reminiscent of our last fin de siecle. A Bay Area street kid named George Mount helped start it all. Savior on Wheels