Gina Kavesh and Dorothy Nichols have been elected to fill two vacant positions on the USA Cycling Board of Directors, USAC announced this week. Kavesh is also a member of the USAC road committee and Nichols is a menber of the mountain ...
Seventeen new campuses made it onto the League of American Bicyclists’ bike-friendly universities, which now includes 75 colleges in 32 states and Washington, D.C. Moving up the rankings from a gold designation to platinum is the ...
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The 10th annual Tour de Tryptophan returns to Fullerton, California, the day after Thanksgiving. This year’s ride benefits BMX legend Eddy King, who suffered spinal injuries last month while riding Snow Summit’s new mountain ...
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Registration is now open for Interbike’s IBD Summit, returning for a third year to Monterey, California, just ahead of the Sea Otter Classic. New content has been added to this year’s event, which is set for April 8-10 and is ...
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Easton Cycling is raffling a custom steel Black Cat road bike as part of its Dream Bike Charity Sweepstakes. Tickets are available from the Easton Facebook page for $5. Proceeds from the raffle go the charity of the builder's choice. In ...
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Highway Two will become the exclusive distributor of Kask cycling helmets in the U.S. and Canada in January. Highway Two will serve North American retailers through its network of 11 inside and 40 outside sales reps and territory managers, ...
Sport Chalet recently announced that it has partnered with First Bankcard, a leading national credit card issuer and division of First National Bank of Omaha, to launch a new Sport Chalet MasterCard. The program will allow customers to earn ...
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Flowserve Corp has secured a multi-million dollar order from IDE Technologies to supply pumping systems for the seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant located in Carlsbad, California, USA. IDE Technologies has bought three large ...
Women who took oral contraceptives for three or more years are twice as likely to suffer from glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness, a U.S. researcher says. Lead researcher Dr. Shan Lin, a professor of clinical ophthalmology at the ...
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Men with prostate cancer who ate a low-fat diet and took fish body oil supplements may have lower risk of cancer recurrence, U.S. researchers say. Lead author William Aronson of the University of California, Los Angeles, and chief of ...
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Numerous new microbial source tracking (MST) methodologies have been developed in the last decade, but many of these have been tested in just a few laboratories with a limited number of fecal samples. This method evaluation study in ...
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Men are more likely to regret not taking action on a potential liaison, while women are more regretful for engaging in one-time liaisons, U.S. researchers say. Evolutionary psychologist David Buss of the University of Texas at Austin; ...
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Fuji Electric Corp of America have been developing indium gallium nitride (InGaN) solar cell structures in efforts to extend the conversion efficiency of multi-junction photovoltaic (PV) ...
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It is no secret that laminate flooring is inherently green. It has been touted as such for years by the industry, but what is so environmentally friendly about laminate? Well, just about everything. Laminate is a fascinating product ...
Solexant Corp of San Jose, CA, USA has announced a new corporate identity as Siva Power, the culmination of a two-year transition to a platform that aims to create a profitable path to sub-$0.40 per watt solar power, along with what it ...
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