Instead of complaining about all the trash along a section of a bike path, members of the Mid-Valley Bicycle Club in Corvallis, Oregon, are taking matters into their own hands.
Ten cyclists met at the bike path along 99W, and in little more than an hour had picked up 20 large garbage bags of crap from along the one-mile stretch. Among the items they found was a stripped down bicycle frame, which they're considering upgrading into a new bike.
Good deeds like these aren't isolated to Corvallis. Bicycling groups all over are joining “Adopt-a-trail” campaigns in communities to keep their trails clean ……
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/28/tired-of-trail-side-trash-adopt-a-bike-trail/
Delaware encourages groups to adopt bike paths
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/28/adopt-your-local-bike-path/
A bike ride among some friends along the 57-mile New River State Park trail in Virginia ended in tragedy recently when a rock slab broke loose from an overhang and killed a cyclist.
Park officials say the rock fall “appears to have been an isolated natural act.” It's the second time since the abandoned railroad bed was converted to a trail that someone has been killed by a falling rock.
According to reports, Sudie Jenkins Hatcher, 48, from High Point, N.C., was riding with friends in the Austinville area of the trail on Oct. 20. A slab from a rock overhang broke loose, rolled down a hill before it tumbled through the air and struck Hatcher …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/28/falling-rock-slab-kills-cyclist-on-virginia-bike-trail/
Every year the organizers of the Tour de France choose an actual Tour stage for a “recreational ride” that allows cycling enthusiasts to test out their bicycling chops.
It's called L'Étape du Tour Mondovélo, and in 2008 it's scheduled to roll out Sunday, July 6, over the Stage 10 route from Pau to Hautacam.
This is like no ride along the bike path at the local park. This year's l'etape is a 102-mile ride in the Pyrenees over the Col de Tourmalet and finishing at the Hautacam ski resort…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/27/2008-letape-du-tour-bike-ride-for-citizen-bicyclists/
Recreational cyclists can ride in a 102-mile stage of the Tour de France on Sunday, July 6, 2008. It's Stage 10 from Pau to Hautacam. More at Etape du Tour 2008.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/27/bike-route-for-2008-letape-du-tour/
Nearly 2 dozen Southern California wildfires that have destroyed more than half a million acres of vegetation caused so much smoke that bicycling in the area this weekend definitely wouldn't be a healthy exercise.
Orange County-based Cycling Dude blogger Kiril Kundurazieff writes about the hazards and public health warnings that are being issued at “Where there's Smoke, There's Fire: Should You Ride?” He concludes that he'll forego the bike and stick to mass transit.
The Orange County Wheelmen have postponed this weekend's popular Fall Metric Century to Nov. 3 due to the smoky conditions…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/26/erase-socal-cycling-from-your-calendar-this-weekend/
Riding in the yellow jersey at the 2008 Tour de France might require a little less individual effort than in previous years.
The route and daily details released by bike race officials on Thursday shows there will be no starting prologue, and one of the two individual time trials will be shorter than usual.
The 2008 Tour de France rolls counter-clockwise around France from Saturday, July 5 to Sunday July 27, 2008. Along the way it will pass 2,170 miles of French countryside, except for a brief one day stop in the Italian Alps …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/25/2008-tour-de-france-bike-race-starts-in-brittany/
The 95th Tour de France bicycle race rolls from July 5 to July 27, 2008, covering 2,170 miles in a counter-clockwise route around France.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/25/2008-tour-de-france-map/
Updated: The cyclists on the Discovery Channel pro cycling team are scattering to the four winds.
Spain's Alberto Contador, right, and California's Levi Leipheimer, left, have both confirmed they're following team manager Johan Bruyneel to Kazakhstan-based Astana.
Those are some big guns for Astana. Contador won the 2007 Tour de France and Leipheimer finished in 3rd. The Santa Rosa resident also won the Tour of California in 2007 and won the US National Championships this fall …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/24/contador-and-leipheimer-to-astana/
Two bicyclists — Lee Anne Barry (left) and Thomas Hoskins — were killed in South Carolina on Sunday when they were struck by an SUV as they were bicycling the final leg of a cross-country ride.
This was the fourth cross-country bicycle tour for Barry. She had survived a coma as a youth and later founded the Brain Injury Greatest Journey (B.I.G. Ride) to raise awareness that people with brain injuries can continue to live life in a meaningful way.
The 43-year-old North Carolina resident certainly demonstrated to the very end that she could live a full life and give meaning to the lives of others ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/23/two-on-charity-bicycle-ride-killed-in-south-carolina/
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