August 13, 2010

Not spokin’ for

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A bike purchased for $5 at a yard sale in Kentucky made news recently. Turns out the full-suspension mountain bike was custom made for Floyd Landis, who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France win for a performance-enhancing drug offense.

Floyd used the bike to take second place in the 2007 Leadville Trail 100-mile mountain bike race. In addition to the custom-made bike ($8,000 retail) by Cyco-Path Bikes in California, the pedals were a $500 custom job, too.

How does the $8,000 bike of a world class cyclist end up at a yard sale for…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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