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Courtesy of Jens! Voight, my favorite rider.
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Fabian Cancellara adds to his legend.
Find out where to watch it, and get some great previews, at Steephill.tv. If you live in the US and have access to Versus, it’s available in HD this year.
Come on by and talk about it during and after each stage at PodiumCafe.com
Welcome to the rest of my July.
The photo sets will have to wait until tomorrow, but I thought some of you might like these finish line shots of today’s race.
Arlington County (as in the government) often says – in promotional posters, event sponsorships, etc. – that it is a bike-friendly place. 
But it’s not always clear to everyone what Arlington County actually does to be a bike-friendly environment.  To help shed some light on that, I’m passing along an Arlington County memo I received earlier today. It’s from March, and discusses a number of events that have come to pass, but I think it remains relevant and will be of interest to many of you:
Date:Â Â March 25, 2009
To:Â Â Â Â Â Â Dennis Leach, Transportation Director, DES
From:Â Â Chris Hamilton, Commuter Services Chief, DES Transportation
RE:Â Â Â Â Â Â 2009 Outreach and Education Efforts to Promote BicyclingThis is to bring you up to date on the staff efforts regarding
calendar year 2009 efforts to promote biking in Arlington. We’re
committed to supporting Arlington’s status as a Silver Level
Bicycle-Friendly City and promoting bicycling as a transportation
option for persons of all abilities through education and outreach.
In response to budget and staff constraints we’re looking at
reshaping some activities, including the Community Bike Ride. Here’s
an overview:Elevating Bike Culture In Arlington. On December 16, we hosted an
inter-departmental work-shop at which nearly 40 staff from DES
Transportation, CPHD Parks and Cultural Affairs, Police, ACPS, CPHD
and others met to discuss elevating Arlington’s bike culture. The
workshop, led by Charlie Denney and a team from Alta Planning
provided best practices from around the world and allowed for
brainstorming on how Arlington could do the same. Next steps include:
setting up a permanent County Inter-departmental Working Group for
Bicycle Issues; prioritizing strategies that can be implemented from
the Bicycle Element of the Master Transportation Plan; expanding the
discussion beyond staff to include the BAC, non-profits, businesses
and the general public; expanding educational and outreach efforts;
implementing bikesharing; and looking into holding Sunday Cyclovia
and other events for 2010.[more after the break]
As promised, I’ve posted a raw (unedited) stream of lo-res shots of the kids ride that took place during Sunday’s Clarendon Cup races. I posting these because I get a lot of search traffic looking for pictures of this ride.  They are being posted under a Creative Commons attribution/non-commercial license, so you’re quite welcome do as you please with them, within those limits. If your kid is in a shot, and you want a better copy, drop me a note (and include the *exact* file name (e.g., IMG_3765.jpg)). I’m not in the business of making prints, but if you *really* wanted one, I’m sure we could work something out.
Large format gallery now up here. Always appreciate feedback on my cycling photography.
In the course of shooting the Clarendon Cup and the Air Force Cycling Classic, I also ended up with a fair number of shots from the Clarendon Cup Kids Ride and Crystal Ride. As with last year, I’m aiming at getting these photos up in a raw stream sometime in the next day or two.
Witnessed an unexpected win in the form of Team Type 1’s Shawn Milne at the Air Force Cycling Classic in Arlington, Virginia today:
Lots more to come, but that will have to wait until tomorrow. Saw so much riding by other people this weekend that I just had to get out for a ride of my own tonight, and now I am pretty sure I could sleep standing up. Mañana.
WashCycle has the (few) details. I roll through that intersection regularly. Hard to know what happened. Be careful, folks.