While I was trying to gain some traction in foot deep snow on Sunday, I remembered why I had some misgivings about setting a goal of 4,000 miles for 2008.
Ten days left in the year, and I'm 98 miles shy of my goal. It's been snowing for four days and I'm seeing no sign …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/22/the-problem-with-setting-bicycling-goals/
King County (WA) is getting closer to filling some missing links in its countywide bicycle route network.
The latest proposal is a 17-mile trail that links four other bike paths as it rolls between the Puget Sound and Lake Washington south of Seattle.
Dubbed the Lake-to-Sound Trail, the bike path is designed to intersect the Cedar River Trail, the Green River Trail, the Westside Trail and the Des Moines Creek Trail. It will pass through Renton, Tukwila, Burien, SeaTac, Normandy Park and Des Moines. The trail also visits the Tukwila light-rail station …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/22/plans-for-lake-to-sound-bicycle-trail-in-south-king-county/
The 17-mile bike trail will link four other bike trails in southern King County (Washington). More at Renton Trails and Bicycle Master Plan
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/22/proposed-route-for-lake-to-sound-bike-trail/
The Tour de Georgia bike race isn't returning in 2009, but a North Georgia town has a plan to boost tourism using bicycles anyway.
Hotels in the historic town of Alpharetta are offering special packages that enable tourists to have bicycle rental, delivery and pick-up all included in their room rate.
The offer enables visitors to ride the bicycles to attractions around town or head out to ride the scenic Big Creek Greenway bike path.
That bike path runs for 6.2 miles through the Alpharetta area and was recently connected to another 3-mile section in Roswell ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/21/bicycles-delivered-to-hotel-guests-in-north-georgia/
Photo by Divine Vessel at flickr.com
A bicyclist appears to have a trestle to himself on the Big Creek Greenway in Georgia. Sections of the bicycle path in Alpharetta and Roswell have been joined, so it rolls along between the two Georgia towns for about 10 miles.
More flickr.com pictures at the Big Creek Greeway …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/21/bicycling-on-big-creek-greenway/
When Mr. McQuire offered Ben Braddock one word of advice — “plastics” — in The Graduate, I'm sure he wasn't talking about bicycles.
But a team of students from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, created a bicycle made from recycled plastic bottles to win the Juicy Ideas contest supported in part by Google.
The four industrial design students from ASU competed against 268 teams from 28 colleges to create something of value in 10 days from a “throwaway” item and post a YouTube video (above) that explained their product.
The winners — Ryan Klinger, of Huntersville, NC; Andrew Drake of Gaithersburg, Md.; Spencer Price of Louisville, Ky.; and Justin Henry of San Diego — will get a trip to Google headquarters in Mountain View …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/20/bicycle-made-from-plastic-bottles-wins-google-sponsored-award/
An old hand at helping Lance Armstrong win championships — he once even gave up his bike to Armstrong — has been named to the Team Astana roster to compete at the Tour Down Under in Australia.
Jose Luis Ruberia, 35, of Spain bicycled with Armstrong on the Postal Service and Discovery pro cycling teams, participating in some of Armstrong's Tour de France championships.
Other teammates Assan Bazayev (Kazakhstan), Steve Morabito (Switzerland) and Maxim Iglinskiy (Kazakhstan) all rode in the 2008 Giro d'Italia. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/19/astana-names-armstrong-teammates-for-tour-down-under/
If you ask me, a bicycle tour is as good a way as any to commemorate a monumental event.
Ryan Bowen would probably agree, as he's bicycling from Los Angeles to Washington DC to mark the election and inauguration of Barack Obama.
The 22-year-old graduate (shown at left and in the video on the jump) of Occidental College in LA is hoping to interest some other like-minded Obama-supporting bicyclists along the way who might want to join him on the ride into DC.
He told the LA Times that he'd like to have an escort of 50 or more bicyclists by the end of the trip.
“That would be my dream, to roll into Washington with something like that.” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/19/biking-for-obama-la-to-dc-in-time-for-inauguration/
Ryan Bowen pauses along the road during his nearly 4,000-mile bike ride to Washington DC to see Barack Obama's inauguration. See Bowen's flickr slideshow of all his pictures.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/19/on-the-road-with-ryan-bowen/
US-based cycling teams Columbia and Garmin-Slipstream are included among the eight ProTour teams that have announced for the Amgen Tour of California, Feb. 14-22, 2009.
Also competing will be Luxembourg's Astana team, which boasts two-time of defending champion Levi Leipheimer (left) as well as Lance Armstrong.
If invitations are forwarded to domestic teams Rock Racing and OUCH, we'll see a reunion of former US Postal Service teammates spread across five teams …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/18/first-8-teams-announced-for-2009-amgen-tour-of-california/
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