| Bicycle parts shop destroyed in JB morning blaze
JOHOR BARU: A bicycle parts supply shop was destroyed during an early morning blaze in Bandar Baru Uda here. Twenty-seven firemen and seven fire engines were dispatched to the location after receiving a distress call at 8.20am. Operations commander Hamid Suhari said the fire was controlled within 15 minutes but was only put out totally at 2.20pm. "Some shop workers who discovered the fire when they reached the store informed us about it," he said. He added that no casualties were reported. Hamid said losses were estimated at more than RM200,000. Last Thursday, a bicycle workshop in the same housing area and situated near the supply shop was also destroyed in the fire. The incident also occurred at about 8.20pm. Losses were estimated at more than RM100,000 in that fire.
A Personal Rememberance by John Allen, League Board Member
In 1972, I was halfway home with a flat tire and walked into a bike shop that was just closing. Sheldon stayed late to fix it. That's how I first met him. There were 46 bicycles in or around his house "with a few shared wheels", by his recent count, mostly in his basement. He didn't buy bicycles off the shelf -- as a challenge to his mechanical ingenuity, and a way to spend less money and spend more time doing what he liked to do, he cobbled up customized bicycles from parts he acquired mostly through special deals, barter or secondhand, to suit himself or someone in his family. He often came up with a something unique, clever and useful. You may read about his bicycles on his Web site. He had an eye for style, but also, one or two rusty clunkers hung out by the back door getting rustier, for the quick ride to the convenience store, and several old hulks of bikes lived under the front porch.
State Police arrest man in bicyclist’s death
LAROSE — State Police on Tuesday arrested a Cut Off man accused of leaving the scene of a fatal traffic accident Sunday night, according to a news release. Troop C Public Information Officer Gilbert Dardar said in the release that Tommy Eymard, 57, was booked with one count of felony hit-and-run just before noon Tuesday. Troopers determined it was a white 1998 Chrysler Cirrus, driven by Eymard, that hit a bicycle rider Sunday night on La. 308 near the Larose Truck Plaza, a State Police news release said. Car parts found at the scene of the crash matched the damaged Cirrus that troopers located on Tuesday, the news release said. The bicyclist, Rigoberto O. Valladares, 41, of Lockport, was dead at the scene. .
Tournament/Camp Schedule
AUG. 18 -- O'Neil Pass/Dan Crain Memorial Road Race. Starts at Spearfish City Park, travels up O'Neil Pass and finishes on Highway 14A near the Chophouse Restaurant. Entry is $20, $10 for students. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. at Spearfish City Park. Race starts at 9 a.m. For more information, call Betsy Cordes at 642-4277.SEPT. 8 — Brookings Domestic Abuse Shelter benefit ride. Departs at 7:30 a.m. from the Sioux Valley Bicycles & Fitness store in Brookings. Ride travels 17 miles to Schade Vineyard. For more information, call Sherry Oswald at 692-5022.OCT. 13 — Breat Cancer Research Foundation benefit ride. Two rides, one of 10 miles and another 25 miles in length. For more information, call Sherry Oswald at 692-5022.GolfAUG. 10 — Fellowship of Christian Athletes Four-Person Scramble. At Hart Ranch G.C., Rapid City.
Winter storms at both ends of the country dump snow, snarl travel
CHICAGO (AP) — Winter storms at both ends of the country dumped snow and snarled air and land travel Friday, killing at least 10 people, blocking major highways and even stranding 400 train passengers in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Nearly 7 1/2 inches of snow was reported at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport before the front moved out of the area Friday. About 500 flights were canceled at O'Hare, which canceled 600 flights Thursday and housed hundreds of stranded travelers who spent the night awaiting planes from other cities also affected by the storm. At least 12 inches of snow was reported in Springfield by Friday morning, said National Weather Service meteorologist Gino Izzi. Other parts of Illinois saw similar amounts. "If you don't have to be out here, don't," Ty Wilson, a very wet Chicago bicycle messenger, said as he stopped along a slushy street between morning deliveries.
Vietnam to consume more motorbikes in 2007
HANOI, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam is estimated to consume 2.5 million motorbikes this year, up from 2.2 million units last year, a local industry association said Monday. Foreign-invested motorbike firms in the country, Honda Vietnam, Yamaha Vietnam, Suzuki Vietnam and SYM, recorde d total domestic sales of 174,000 motorbikes in January and 128,000 units in February, posting respective year-on-year rises of 29 percent and 28 percent, according to the latest statistics from the Vietnam Motorbike and Bicycle Association. Vietnam spent 572 million U.S. dollars importing motorbikes, components and spare parts in the first 10 months of this year, up 34.6 percent, according to the country's General Statistics Office. Specifically, it imported 105,000 motorbikes worth 111 million dollars, seeing respective year-on-year surges of 124.2 percent and 87.7 percent.
PEDAL POWER: Nonprofit empowers adults, kids by helping them build and ...
To Maurice Potts, bicycles were simply large toys, good for just riding around the neighborhood, with no destination in mind. That was before the semi-retired doctor took a class two years ago to learn to build and repair bicycles at Back Alley Bikes, a nonprofit program in Detroit's Cass Corridor that teaches children and adults how to build their own bikes from scrap parts and do repairs. There, Potts discovered that for many inner-city residents who don't have access to cars and can't afford public transportation, bikes are a tool, a necessity. .
Fireball mum in fight for life
A MOTHER is fighting for her life after suffering horrific burns when she became a "human fireball". Yvonne Buckley, aged 38, was discovered in flames by her teenage son, Alex, in the living room of their home in Holly Grove, Brownlow Fold. He dashed for help as Ms Buckley's partner rushed to extinguish the flames with his bare hands. .
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