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Disappearing into the shade

Only a cyclist's yellow jacket is visible as he descends under a canopy of trees on the Olympic Peninsula.

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Kitsap Peninsula with trailer and panniers

Traveling not-ultralight on Olympic Peninsula bike tour.

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Port Townsend bike trail

 Port Townsend harbor and skyline as seen from the Larry Scott Memorial bike trail. My riding partner said  he liked this 3-mile rail-to-trail the best on a round trip bike ride from Seattle.

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Bicycle touring from Seattle to Port Townsend


Port Townsend bike trail

With time running out for a summertime bicycle tour, a neighbor and I took an overnight bicycle trip up to Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula this Labor Day weekend.

The Olympic Peninsula is a great bicycling destination. Cyclists take a ferry across the Puget Sound to Bainbridge Island. After a few miles on busy roads, they have a choice of busy well-graded roads with shoulders or narrower country roads with a lot of steep ups and downs.

Either way, they enjoy spectacular views of the Olympic Mountains and sweeping vistas of the Puget Sound and its tributaries…

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Cross-country cyclist loses 7-year battle against cancer

A 43-year woman who inspired many by her unwillingness to give in to cancer died at her home in central England on Monday.

Jane Tomlinson's accomplishments were highlighted in this blog last year after she undertook a cross-country bicycle tour in the US that later became a documentary — “Jane Tomlinson: Across the USA.”

Tomlinson learned she had breast cancer in 1990 and was told in 2000 that she had only months to live. She battled the odds with aggressive treatment as well as participating in endurance sports …

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Bear attacks man at Kitsap County park – Washington state

A black bear attacked a mountain biker in Banner Forest Heritage Park in Olalla on Sunday while the 51-year-old man rode through the park with his two dogs.

The man was treated for arm, face, back, neck and ear wounds by paramedics and taken to St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma.

It's at least the second time in the Pacific Northwest this summer that a bear-mountain biker encounter has resulted in an attack. In July, a 31-year-old woman was mauled to death by a black bear at the Panorama Mountain Resort in eastern British Columbia. …

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Leipheimer wins road, Zabriskie time trial at pro championships

We'll be seeing Dave Zabriskie (left) and Levi Leipheimer (right) in the stars and stripes when they take to the cycling peloton next year.

Both won at the USA Cycling Pro Championships in Greenville, South Carolina, over the weekend. As national champions, each gets to festoon their regular bicycle team jersey with the red, white and blue in 2008.

Zabriskie, winner of the individual time trial for the second year in a row, will be bicycling for the up-and-coming US-based Team Slipstream/Chipotle. Leipheimer, who won the road championship from Discovery teammate George Hincapie, has yet to sign a contract with another team for next year…

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Bike taxi carrying baseball fans to Safeco Field in Seattle

Why not earn some cold, hard cash to ferry fans to the baseball park? Several bike taxis carry fans to and from Safeco Field. There's no motor vehicle traffic along this avenue of vendors before the games, and it's all flat.

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Cyclist at Gas Works Park in Seattle

Tanks and other equipment at the 90-some year old coal-to-gas plant in Seattle, now known as Gas Works Park. It's a popular meet-up for bike rides, as there's parking and it sits right on the Burke-Gilman Trail.

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Entering the bike tunnel in Seattle

Cyclists head into the cool darkness of the I-90 bike tunnel above I-90 in Seattle.

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