A view of the Snoqualmie Valley from Issaquah-Fall City Road, one of King County's Historic Corridors.
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The TransAmerica Bicycle Route's unforgettable Cookie Lady has been offering traveling cyclists a place to tank up their water bottles, restore their carbs and even spend the night for more than 30 years.
This summer, June Curry is cutting back on some of those activities. Although the Bike House will remain open during the day for touring bicyclists who want a look around, she'll no longer be offering overnight lodging there.
The Adventure Cycling Association blog says a good friend of June's recently told them:
“…the situation (not having cyclists stay at the bike house) may change in the future, but right now, June would prefer not to have overnight visitors ….
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A lot of news came out of the National Bike Summit in Washington DC earlier this month, such as the Google maps route finder for bicycles. It also marked the unveiling of a public awareness campaign entitled People for Bikes.
The idea of the mobilization effort by Bikes Belong and the SRAM Cycling Fund is to sign up 1 million people in support of bicycling so we can speak with one powerful voice and get the attention of policy makers, newspaper and television, and the general public.
Now, considering that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced soon after the summit that bicycle transportation will be treated equally with motorized transportation, you might think that the tough work is done.
Not hardly …..
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In case there was any doubt, the US-based teams of Lance Armstrong, George Hincapie, Cadel Evans, Christian Vande Velde and Mark Cavendish will compete in the Tour de France this year.
Organizers of the Tour de France named four US-based pro cycling teams among the 22 chosen. HTC-Columbia had an automatic invitation; Team RadioShack, BMC Racing, and Garmin-Transitions were all invited as wild cards.
Although the teams are by no means exclusively manned by American cyclists, it does mean the US will be well-represented when the three-week race rolls out in the Netherlands on July 3. The bike race ends in Paris on July 25.
Other wild card teams invited to the race are Team Sky, Katusha, and Cervelo TestTeam …
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The practice of doctors making house calls is a thing of the past, but these medical students think nothing of embarking on a cross-country bicycle tour.
About two dozen future doctors will leave San Diego this week to raise money and awareness for the Heal Africa and World Bicycle Relief organizations.
This is the fifth year that groups of med students have taken a Ride for World Health bicycle tour across the US. Each year they've raised between $60,000 and $80,000 for different non-governmental agencies that provide medical care to developing nations.
The entourage plans to leave San Diego on Thursday. Members will ride 75 to 100 miles a day ….
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Medical students ride cross-country to raise funds and awareness for Heal Africa and World Bicycle Relief. Map from Ride for World Health.
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Embarking on a Pan-American bicycle tour is by no means commonplace these days, but adventurers are undertaking it more frequently.
That wasn't the case in 1974, when 18-year-old Keith Jackson, at right, left the comforts of his home in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the rigors of an 18,000-mile bike journey from Alaska to the southernmost tip of Argentina.
Jackson was one of the first and one of the youngest. Recently, that path has become more well-traveled.
Just this past winter, Scotsman Mark Beaumont finished the bike trek, which he blogged about at Cycling the Americas. Shortly before that, three Americans accomplished the feat, reported at their blog Riding the Spine.
There is even a family of four ….
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19-year-old Keith Jackson of North Carolina completed a 18,000 mile PanAmerican journey in 1975. The Winston Salem Journal remembers his achievement.
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The first showdown of the year between Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador ended with the Spaniard crossing the finish line ahead of the Texan in Stage 1 of the Criterium International on Saturday.
Contador finished 1-minute-13 behind the winner and Armstrong finished 4:51 behind.
Sunday update: Armstrong finished 17 places ahead on Contador in the lead group in Stage 2, but with the same time. In the Stage 3 time trial, Contador finished in 2nd place, 2 seconds behind the winner, David Millar of Garmin. Armstrong finished in 15th place, 19 seconds behind Millar.
Pierrick Fedrigo survived in yellow to take the overall win.
But that contest between the two rivals on last year's Astana cycling team was secondary to the stage win by Frenchman …
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