This just in from BikePortland: Price Media, the publishing stalwarts who bring you Outdoors Nw (sic on the small "w") magazine, have cooked up a new magazine, NW Cyclist. It'll be published just once per year; the premiere issue will be available in March 2009 at the Seattle Bike Expo. We were bemoaning the lack of a bright spot in any industry during this recession and we totally didn't think about bikes. Bikes are pretty ...

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Daily route maps are available for the 2009 Amgen Tour of California so you can scope out the best vantage point when the cyclists roll past on Feb. 14 - 22. This will be the 4th edition of the California bicycle race which has flourished in spite of funding woes of similar U.S. races. It marks the domestic return of Lance Armstrong to professional cycling and the opportunity for a three-peat championship for his teammate Levi Leipheimer. There ...

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