Bike For Peace: World of bikers

mardi 20 septembre 2011

Pat Lafontaine more than 1000 kilometers in 48h

Read it on NHL.com
550 miles in two days? No issue for Webb, Lafontaine

When Steve Webb started looking for a partner to ride alongside him from Toronto to New York to help raise money and awareness for charity, he didn't have to look far.

The former Islander volunteers as an assistant coach with the Long Island Royals, an under-16 hockey team coached by Hockey Hall-of-Famer Pat LaFontaine. A close friend and veteran of multiple triathlons, LaFontaine was happy to join Webb.

But he had a problem with the time commitment. A ride like that, which travels approximately 550 miles, usually encompasses up to nine days.

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"I said 'who has nine days, with kids and everything? Let's do it in 48 hours,'" LaFontaine told NHL.com. "We sat there and laughed. We kind of threw it out there and then we started talking about it."

What began as a laughable idea, though, is now a stark reality.

On Monday, LaFontaine and Webb will leave from the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto on a bike ride that will end a mere 48 hours later at the NHL Store in New York City.

The ambitious trip, which will raise awareness and money for LaFontaine and Webb's respective charities, as well as dementia and Alzheimer's research, has already drawn equal parts support and disbelief from former teammates.

"I just got off the phone with Brad Isbister. He says we're crazy," Webb told NHL.com. "Dave Scatchard is very supportive of the ride but still thinks we're crazy. Just about everybody we've talked to thinks we've gone off the rails. But we have a game plan and if we follow it properly, success should follow."

For Webb and LaFontaine, that game plan has been calculated down to the last calorie.

A team of about eight people will travel alongside them, helping to track caloric intake, heart rate, and other important variables. They'll even be playing music from an accompanying van. "I just hope Webby likes 70s music," joked LaFontaine. "If we have to listen to anything else, it could be a brawl out there."

With a live blog documenting their entire trip, the duo might seem an unlikely one considering how different the fleet-footed LaFontaine and tough-as-nails Webb were as players. It was actually LaFontaine who first got the former enforcer on a bicycle seven years ago, when he took Webb and then-Islanders defenseman Adrian Aucoin on a 100-mile "century ride." The results were mixed.

"Webby didn't bring the right nutrition. He didn't have breakfast, he thought 'this is going to be easy, I'm a hockey player.' He started getting really hungry about 60 miles in. I remember telling him, 'don't worry, the deli is just around the corner,'" said LaFontaine. "Then we get there and the deli is closed. You would have thought he was playing against the Rangers or something. He lost it, he just snapped."

Despite that bumpy first ride, Webb pursued bike riding full force and has embarked on a ride from Long Island to Peterborough, Ontario each of the past two summers. That ride, which generally takes between eight and nine days to complete, would form the basis for this project, which is raising funds for a number of causes, including both Webb and LaFontaine's personal charities.

dimanche 23 janvier 2011

World of Bikers
Ewa & Daniel

Encore des allumés venus de la belle Polska. Ils m'avaient reçu chez eux en 2009, lors de mon passage le long de la Baltique.

mercredi 13 octobre 2010

CicLAvia

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De la bicyclette en plein milieu de Los Angeles ?

C'est le CicLAvia, qui eu lieu le 10 octobre dernier.

Inspiré des Ciclovía de Colombie, 8 miles (environ 13km) de rues furent réservées aux cyclistes et autres roulistes.

Plus de 100,000 personnes y participèrent.

Le site : CicLAvia.

Le carnet : CicLAvia.

Via : CycLAvia attracts over 100,000 cyclists to car-free Los Angeles streets - Boing Boing

World of Bikers
Florian Bailly

Florian a effectué le trajet France - Japon sur un vélo électrique alimenté par un panneau solaire.

mardi 12 octobre 2010

World of Bikers
Asiemut

Bin dis-donc. Olivier et Mélanie savent tenir une caméra. Leur film a raflé tous les prix possibles et imaginables. Ça raconte l'histoire d'un petit voyage à vélo qui débute dans les montagnes de la Mongolie…

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