10/07/2026
FLASHBACK 2006: As we approach our 20 year anniversary (Oct. 31st) here at the Reno Bike Project we thought it was a good time to look back to the era of our founding. Picture the scene, October 2006.
October 1st, Darryl Strawberry gets married in Las Vegas to Tracy Boulware. The couple would later go on to write the book, The Imperfect Marriage. Not to be confused with the L. Steele novel of the same name.
October 2nd, Dubya stumps in Reno. George W. Bush visits reno to stump for Dean Heller. Dean would go on to win Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District with 50.35% of the vote. Defeating Democrat Jill Derby.
October 3rd, Pyongyang announces that they will test their first nuclear bomb. They will go on to test it on October 9th at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site.
October 4th, Comet SWAN reaches peak visibility. Comet C/2006 M4 (SWAN) is visible with binoculars near the Big Dipper.
October 5th, The NBA unveiled a new ball. Everyone hated it.
October 6th, Goodyear workers go on strike. “We’ve drawn a line in the sand,” said Dave Prentice, benefits representative and political coordinator for USW Local 2 in Akron, Ohio. “When the top officers [at Goodyear] share $38 million in bonuses at the expense of the people who generated the profit, that may be legal, but it’s immoral.”
October 7th, Anna Politkovskaya is assassinated. Politkovskaya was critical of the Putin regime’s 2nd Chechen War and on Putin’s 54th birthday Politkovskaya was murdered in her apartment.
