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Georgia Gould, the 2007 USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Cross Country Calendar Champion, has posted on her blog that she has a petition asking the UCI to mandate equal prize money for the top 5 places in both men’s and women’s races. If you agree the petition can be signed electronically.

In the "you knew it was coming" news category. Trek is now the official bicycle sponsor of the Astana professional cycling team. With so many former Discovery team members now at Astana, how could Trek not make this decision. Here is the official press release:

Ron Fitzwater is an idiot! Who is Ron Fitzwater? He is a writer for the Boone, NC newspaper, The Ashe Mountain Times, that’s who. On October 25, 2007 Ron wrote the following article titled, Here’s My Point: Bikes Turn Parkway Into Parking Lot.

Or should I say Team High Road? This news is all over the web so I am not going to say much here. The former T-Mobile professional cycling team is now named The High Road team.  Obviously a name that falls in line with their stated anti-doping policies. The sponsors that gone are; Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), Audi and now the bicycle manufacturer Giant.

Of all the places to get your bicycle news, the  Arkansas Democratic Gazette ran this article on Monday, November 19th; Fixed-gear bicycle sales ride high among admirers. The article written by Don Mayhew, talks about some of the reasons that Fixed Gear bicycles are of increasing popularity.

For a growing number of avid cyclists, the fixie is in.

It is nice to have something you love be recognized as a world changing invention. The bicycle that we have come to love so much was named on the IOLTechnology’s list of 101 Gadgets That Changed The World. Other notables on the list were; fire, the wheel, scales, the abacus.