December 2006 archive

CyclePassion Calendar for 2007

March 2007 from Anke Wilson's CyclePassion Calendar

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Graham Watson bike racing calendar

2007 calendar by eminent cycling photographer Graham Watson

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More week-long state bicycle rides updated

Are you wondering how you're going to be spend your vacation this summer? I've updated more listings for Across-State Bicycle Tours, which might give you some ideas.

These are fully supported, mostly week-long bike tours operated by nonprofit groups to show off the wonders of the various states. I have updates for LABBRAU, GRABAAWR, SAGBRAW, BRAT, OBR, XOBA, among others. That means I've been working in reverse alpha order to update bike tours in Wisconsin, Washington, Tennessee, South Dakota, Oregon and Ohio.

For more updates ….

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Bike in Buenas Aires

Bicycle pix from peter.andringa at flickr.com

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BRAT 2006

Some cyclists on Bicycle Ride Across Tennessee in 2006.

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Virginia man saves railbed for use as bike trail

Ever get tired of waiting for government to act? David Brickley did.

That's why he took it on himself to purchase the rights to a 16-mile railroad right-of-way through King George County and launch plans for the Dahlgren Railroad Heritage Trail as a bicycling and hiking path near Fredericksburg, Virginia.

The Rails to Trails newsletter reports on Brickley, who saw the railbed in 1999 when he worked as director of a state agency. Try as he might, however, he couldn't interest the county's board of commissioners to develop a bike-hike trail.

Fearing the tract might be chopped up …

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Dahlgren Railroad Heritage Trail

Virginia bike and hike trail. See website.

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Freddie Hoffman: The million mile bicyclist

Who is my top bicycling hero? Lance Armstrong — warm. Greg LeMond — warmer. Freddie Hoffman — bingo!

Why Hoffman? For starters, he's ridden his bicycle to the moon and back, twice.

Hoffman, 48, was born with an oxygen deficiency. It led to developmental problems that caused him to be ostracized by his classmates and peers. He turned to his bicycle for companionship.

Inspired by watching astronauts travel to the moon, Hoffman got it in his head to turn his bicycle into a virtual spacecraft and pedal the distance to the moon — some 240,000 miles — here on Earth. Bicycling nearly every day, Hoffman has covered 1.3 million miles.

How did he do it? …

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Freddie Hoffman

Uber long distance cyclist.

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Landis's Mennonite parents on very short lecture circuit

While their son talks to reporters from newspapers and magazines in Europe and the US, Floyd Landis's parents talked to the local Rotary Club this week.

Landis's strict Mennonite upbringing by his parents became an interesting sidelight to his career in 2006 as he racked up more and more bicycle race wins. But his parents were thrust into the news with the accusations that their son doped to win a stage of the 2006 Tour de France. Paul and Arlene had slightly different takes on their experiences since the doping allegations …

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