| Injured rider's husband works for safety of other bike commuters
LATE LAST WEEK, a bicyclist on his way to work stopped on Shore Drive, dismounted and disappeared into some brush to retrieve a package. There, inside a brown sack, was the booty he'd been promised the day before, A bike helmet. A pair of gloves. A blinking LED light. For the man who had left the sack, Rich Roberts, it was a way of saying thanks, and of making a small difference by aiding another rider. His wife, Maxine, was hit by two cars Oct. 29 while riding her bike on Shore Drive, near the Lesner Bridge in Virginia Beach. She sustained a broken collarbone, a broken femur, six broken ribs, two collapsed lungs and a massive laceration on her left side. She likely survived only because she was wearing a helmet, which was destroyed in the accident.
New employees: valuable from day 1 onwards
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Volunteers ensure safety for cyclists, spectators
"It's not a parade; they're genuinely racing," warned Frank Scioscia, one of four lead organizers of the Sunday, Feb. 17, Amgen Tour of California Prologue bicycle race from downtown Palo Alto to Stanford. Organizers are seeking about 350 volunteers to help keep bystanders out of the way of the 30-plus mph professional racers, for the safety of both. "There's no special training required, just common sense. You get the best seat in the house," Scioscia said. Thousands of hours already have gone into the planning, organizing and recruiting of volunteers to pull off the Prologue and surrounding events. The hundreds of volunteer "course marshals" will be on hand as cyclists race the 2.1 miles from downtown Palo Alto to around the Stanford Oval and a finish line at Museum Way and Palm Drive.
Sea Otter Demo Area Holds Product Promise
MONTEREY, CA (BRAIN)While the Sea Otter Classic has long been known as a "see-and-be-seen" event for athletes, the same could be said for manufacturers and their new products. Companies like SRAM, Thule, Specialized, Clif Bar and Kenda will be releasing new, never-before-seen products to the public and media inside the Sea Otter Expo. Sea Otter has taken a few extra steps this year to allow more Expo goers to test products. The Product demo area, located inside the Expo, will include several jumps, a pump track, as well as other bike handling skills attractions inside the BikeSkills Ride Zone. The demo area will be located proximate to both the acclaimed Fort Ord mountain bike trails and surrounding paved roads for those looking for an alternative to riding in the Ride Zone. Event sponsor SRAM will be releasing many new products at Sea Otter.
Elevate Cycles opens new showroom
The owners of Elevate Cycles Inc. of Saratoga Springs have opened a second bicycle showroom and repair shop on Route 9 in Clifton Park. Husband and wife team Chris and Suzanne Pitts opened the Clifton Park store on Oct. 15 to fill a void in the market after a previous bike shop closed. The new location at 1570 Route 9 in Clifton Park has a 1,200-square-foot showroom and about 1,500 square feet of storage and repair shop space. Elevate sells bicycles, cross country skis and carries a variety of product lines including Cannondale, Fuji, Jamis, Scott and Eastern BMX. Chris Pitts, 37, opened his Saratoga Springs shop at 35 Van Dam St. 13 years ago under the name All Outdoors, but later changed the name to Elevate Cycles. Pitts and his wife will operate the two stores in conjunction with part time help, including three to four employees in Clifton Park.
Euclid Corridor project helps drive $4 billion in Cleveland ...
Amid all the bad news about Cleveland's economy, one big, positive number is sure to impress all but the most hardened cynics: $4.3 billion. That's how much fresh investment -- conservatively speaking -- is being poured into the four-mile-long strip of land flanking Euclid Avenue, the city's Main Street, between Public Square and University Circle. The spending, which encompasses everything from museums and hospitals to housing and educational institutions, includes projects completed since 2000, those now under way and those scheduled for completion within five or six years. Private developers with proven records as doers, not speculators, are gearing up to start projects worth more than $1 billion along the corridor in the next five years or so. They include Douglas Price III, Nathan Zaremba, Ari and Richard Maron, and Gordon Priemer.
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