WDEL Blog: On Wheels with Mark Weidel
August 27, 2010
The Proverbial Gargae Sale Story - A Floyd Landis Bike Sold for $5
The bicycle at a Kentucky yard sale had two flat tires, broken pedals and carried a $5 price tag. That didn't stop Greg Estes from buying the bike in hopes of flipping it for a small profit...
August 6, 2010
New 2011 Stage Race Announced for the US
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and Colorado governor Bill Ritter announced details about the Quiznos Pro Challenge, the new Colorado stage race slated for next fall...
July 12, 2010
It's Over For Armstrong & NASCAR Comes to the Tour deFrance
Sunday's 7th stage of the Tour deFrance spelled the end of the chances for Lance Armstrong's eigth victory. He was caught up in no less than three crashes during the stage that featured two Category 1 climbs up roads to ski resorts...
June 30, 2010
The Tour de France Bekons - Is One More in the Cards for Lance?
Ok, so how fair is this? I'm the cyclist in the family, but son Daniel is in Brussels this summer on a college internship, and gets two stages of the Tour de France running through town this weekend!? Well, life just ain't fair I guess...
June 22, 2010
4 or 2 - Protect Your Wheel from Online Predators
I thought it a bit far-fetched a while ago when I heard that a man claimed Google Maps contributed to the theft of his expensive mountain bike. How, you say? Well, apparently in Google's street view of his home, while some characteristics were blurred out, not so his open garage door...
June 1, 2010
Is Mercury Next on the Chopping Block?
The Mercury brand, rumored to be on the verge of death several times over the past decade, would be shut down under a plan being prepared for Ford Motor Co...
May 25, 2010
New US Grand Prix Scheduled for 2012 - in Austin, Texas
Formula One Czar Bernie Ecclestone has used his Web site to announce that a United States Grand Prix will be held in Austin, Texas beginning in 2012. It will be the first F1 event held in the United States since the 2007 race in Indianapolis...
May 19, 2010
World Class Cycling in Wilmington This Weekend
The bikes are back in Wilmington this weekend. The 2010 Wilmington Grand Prix festivities begin Friday, May 21 with a kick-off party from 5 p.m. in the 500 block of Market Street
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May 14, 2010
Ford and Honda Pass Toyota in Brand Loyalty
Car owners are generally a brand-loyal group, though repeated surveys conducted over the past few months show that Toyota's highly visible problems with quality and safety have rearranged the landscape...
May 12, 2010
Delaware Bike Summit in Wilmington
Delaware's Second Annual Bike Summit will be held in conjunction with the Wilmington Grand Prix on Friday, May 21 at the Baby Grand from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p...
April 29, 2010
Top Flight Mountain Biking in Wilmington May 1 & 2
If you have a bit of time this coming Saturday and Sunday, check out a truly unique annual event. One day each year, the fabulous Granogue Estate of the DuPont family is open to the public and hosts a mountain bike race that attracts riders and fans from all over the east coast...
March 29, 2010
Volvo Soon To Be a Chinese Brand
Ford has reached an agreement to sell Volvo to Chinese car maker Geely for about $1.8 billion in a multinational sale expected to close in the third quarter of this year...
March 2, 2010
DOA - US F1 Entry Closed Before It Competes
From Autoweek on March2:
No one is answering the phone at U.S. F1's Charlotte, N.C., headquarters, and sources said that the fledgling Formula One operation is now dead once and for all...
February 25, 2010
Strike 3 - Another GM Brand Fails to Sell
It was once the poster child of American excess. But that seems like light years away already. Now, Hummer will disappear.
Hummer was set to be sold off to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery, but General Motors now says that will not be happening...
January 26, 2010
A New Deal to Save Saab
General Motors' Saab division may not end up on the scrap heap along with Pontiac and Saturn, after all.
Just as Saab's death appeared imminent, the Swedish automaker was scooped up on Tuesday by Dutch supercar-maker Spyker Cars in a $74 million deal that has been in works for months...
January 14, 2010
2010 Ready to Roll - Tour Down Under
The 2010 cycling season kicks off in earnest with the six-stage Tour Down Under in Australia on January 19-24.
The Tour Down Under presents a good, if rather early, season-starter for the pros...
December 24, 2009
Another Comeback - Michael Schumacher to Mercedes F1
Michael Schumacher will make a comeback next season with the Mercedes Grand Prix team.
The seven-time Formula One world champion quit Grand Prix racing at the end of the 2006 season after winning an all-time record 91 races (among 154 podium finishes) and 68 pole positions...
December 8, 2009
'The Shack' Hits the Road
Training camp time for many of the top cycling teams round the world and the first gathering for the new Radio Shack 2010 squad.
The team has come together in Tucson for their first workouts and everyone is out training in their 2009 team kits:
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November 16, 2009
While Others Leave, Mercedes Steps Up in Formula One
Mercedes confirmed that it has purchased a 75.1 percent share of Brawn GP and will relaunch it as a works team in 2010.
Mercedes has agreed to sell its 40 percent shareholding in McLaren back to the McLaren Group over the next three years...
November 4, 2009
Another Gone - Toyota Exits Formula 1
News from Autoweek: Toyota has confirmed that it will pull the plug on its Formula One program immediately. The news was announced by company boss Akio Toyoda just days before a much anticipated meeting where the team's budget was to be discussed...
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