Pitch your tent. Sleep. Strike your tent. Ride. Pitch your tent. Sleep. Strike your tent. Ride. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
This is the routine on most week-long across-state mass bicycle tours. It's a common drill as the community of cyclists moves from one host location to the next.
After using that method to visit state parks around Indiana for 28 years, the Touring Ride in Rural Indiana (TRIRI) is experimenting with a bicycle touring concept used elsewhere and based on a bicycle rally.
The 2011 TRIRI organizers are choosing a single state park …
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Touring Ride in Rural Indiana
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With Tuesday's news from Paris that the Tour de France would pay homage to the Alps in 2011, it occurred to me that I should pay a visit to our very own second cousin to that famous European mountain chain.
As soon as the fog lifted, I saddled up and headed out for a bike ride up Tiger Mountain, the centerpiece of the Issaquah Alps.
These “Alps” are a chain of foothills west of the Cascades that overlook the sprawling suburbs on the eastside of Seattle. From West to East, they're comprised of Cougar Mountain, Squak Mountain, the various summits of Tiger Mountain and Rattlesnake Ridge. You can also throw in ….
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View from Tiger Mountain… Squak and Cougar mountains and Lake Sammamish.
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Squak Mountain in foreground, Cougar Mountain and far away the Olympic Mountains. Taken from Poo Poo Point on Tiger Mountain at the point where hang gliders leap into thin air.
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The 2011 Tour de France will return to the high ground again next year, paying homage to the Alps in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the bicycle race's first visit there.
At the route announcement in Paris on Tuesday, Tour organizers revealed the 98th Tour will feature six mountain stages and four summit finishes. There's just one individual time trial (Stage 20, Grenoble, 41 km) and a team time trial (Stage 2, Les Essarts, 23 km).
The Alps are such a fixture in the modern-day Tour de France that it's hard to believe that there was a time when the cyclists didn't visit the region ….
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The route for the 2011 Tour de France was announced Oct. 19, 2010, in Paris. The 98th edition of the race starts in Passage du Gois La Barre-de-Monts in eastern France and continues in a counter clockwise direction to Paris. The 21-stage race is 3,471 kilometers (2,152 miles) and rolls out between July 2 and …
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Most of the Great Allegheny Passage has been opened for the past four years, providing bicycle travelers with a 150-mile traffic-free rail-trail from Cumberland, Maryland, to the outskirts of Pittsburgh.
The final 9 miles between McKeesport and Pittsburgh has been touch and go, however, with missing bridges and trail segments absent in the urban area. The trail association even suggests that cyclists catch a shuttle through this section, unless they're accustomed to riding unfriendly roads.
Now, the last pieces to the puzzle are falling into place.
Allegheny County officials announced last week that they now have “site control” of that final 9 miles …..
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Cyclist Lance Armstrong and Anna Hansen announced the birth of the pair's second child, Olivia Marie Armstrong, early Monday morning.
Armstrong posted the Twitpic at left and shared her Twitter account name, @CincoArmstrong.
Last year, Armstrong and Hansen also had Maxwell Edward…
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In the midst of frequent stories about hit-and-run drivers in crashes with bicyclists, it's refreshing to be reminded about the Good Samaritans out there.
It's so unusual, in fact, that cyclist Steven Davis of the UK wants to find the woman who came to his aid when he crashed his bicycle this summer, breaking two ribs and his collarbone.
“I’d just like to say thank you and get her some flowers or a box of chocolates. It’s not often these days people stop to offer their help…..
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