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You’ve heard of the Tour de France but I bet you haven’t heard of the Tour de Donut.
Yes, really. It’s a bike race that combines cycling with donut eating and it’s been held for the last 20 years in Stanton, Illinois. This year a thousand cyclists participated, cycling from donut stop to donut stop, until they either reached the finish line or became too weighed down by donuts to continue.

Personally, I’d rather have my donut with coffee…
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Looks like that little blue pill is moving out the bedroom and into the sports arena.
Many athletes believe that taking Viagra will help improve their performance in the field. And preliminary studies, showing a 40% performance improvement for cyclists taking Viagra, support this believe.
But experts aren’t convinced. They argue that even though Viagra works on the nitric oxide in the body and causes blood vessels to expand resulting in increased heart function and more oxygen in the lungs, it’s not a guarantee that it will improve an athlete’s performance.
In fact some doctors suggest that it’s actually Viagra’s more well-known effects …read more

Location, Location, Location. The catch cry of real estate agents throughout the world. Turns out it’s also an important variable when it comes to your health. Check out Cranky Fitness’s post ‘Does You Hometown have ‘Issues’?’ to find out more.
X-rays as Art? Apparently so. You can find out more about contemporary X-Ray photography artists over at Cultcase. They highlight five artists that convert X-rays into Art.
By the way, did you know that May is National Bike Month? To help you get into the biking groove, Fitness for Mommies explains how to Go from ‘rookie cyclist’ to ‘respected newbie’ with these …read more

Since June 2005 members of Visual Resistance have been creating small memorials to fallen bikers in New York City. When a biker has been killed in an auto-related accident a bike is painted all-white and locked down at the scene with a small plaque attached.
The installations are meant as reminders of the tragedy that took place on an otherwise anonymous street corner, and as quiet statements in support of bikers’ right to safe travel. It was inspired by Ghost Bike Pittsburgh, which was in turn inspired by a similar effort in St. Louis. In recent months, Ghost Bikes have appeared …read more

Photo: random dude
This bike is going nowhere fast. Sort of like the 15 lb. spare tire around my waist. I don’t know if this was a practical joke or an art installation, but I love it the same, either way. If you look closely, you’ll see that you only need to break one lock to steal the bike. Making it a useful object again is another question.

Photo: MIKE DeVRIES/THE CAPITAL TIMES
Ryan Lipscomb saw the truck coming. He saw the driver wasn’t going to stop. He also knew he couldn’t. So he hit the brakes on his bicycle as hard as he could, which flipped him over his handlebars and put his head directly into the path of the big delivery truck’s wheels. After which, his noggin was summarily run over. The helmet, uh, did not survive, but Ryan got away with only a minor concussion.
No, this is not a Giro helmet ad, but it may be soon. This is a scene that played out on Friday …read more

Forget clown make-up; there isn’t any here. Just scars, knee pads and boulders. Oh yeah and wheel uno. These guys, god bless ‘em, are on another level when it comes to the large group of cycling crazies out there.

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Picture © Scott Markewitz
This is sad. Floyd Landis’ follow-up test results are positive for synthetic testosterone. There’s some screwiness with the results (of-effing-course there is) what with the lab not allowing Landis’ expert, Paul Scott, to be present during the running of the tests.
The lab had originally agreed to let him witness the testing, but only in the presence of two other experts from the U.S. Anti-Doping Association. The USADA’s experts failed to show up on Sunday when the tests had been scheduled to take place. So the lab ran the tests without any experts in the room, and the …read more

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I’m not sure what else to say about this. Perhaps, love is blind faces backwards?
Found at Casa Free (French, I think)
mam885, or anyone else, can you translate and tell us what’s going on, here?
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BBC Health Headline: Wearing Helmets ‘More Dangerous’