Bicycling, Featured Post, Photos

Tour de Georgia 2008 Photos

Photos taken April 26th & 27th, 2008 at the final two stages of the Tour de Georgia. Stage 6 took the riders from Blairsville to Brasstown Bald, the highest mountain in Georgia. Stage 7, the final leg of the race, was a mostly ceremonial circuit course around downtown Atlanta.
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Overall Leaders

1. Kanstantsin Siutsou (Team High Road)
2. Trent Loew (Slipstream-Chipotle)
3. Levi Leipheimer (Astana)
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Best Young Rider – Trent Lowe (Slipstream-Chipotle)
Sprint Jersey Standings – Greg Henderson (Team High Road)
King of the Mountain – KOM – Jason McCartney (CSC)
Most Aggressive Overall – Rory Sutherland (Jittery Joe’s)

Features, Maps, New York

Manhattan on Vacation

What if the island of Manhattan left New York City to visit other cities? Where would it go and what would it look like?

Inspired by Bill Rankin’s “The Errant Isle of Manhattan” and kottke.org’s “Manhattan Elsewhere” projects, “Manhattan on Vacation” takes the island of Manhattan to San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, and Hawaii.

Bicycling, Maps, New York, Websites

NYC Bike Maps .com

NYCBikeMaps.com took on the ambitious task of mapping New York City’s bike lanes, bike paths, and greenways using google maps and years of GPS data from bike rides around the City. NYCBikeMaps.com launched in April of 2006 and has been featured on Gothamist, Google’s Summer of Green, and numerous other blogs and websites. As of December 2007, NYCBikeMaps.com has been used by more than sixty thousand people.