Why don't more people ride bicycles?
According to a survey conducted in Washington state, it's because they never learned to ride in the first place or they don't know how to ride in traffic.
Those results from a telephone survey surprised the state Department of Transportation official who sought the input as part of the state's effort to update its 12-year-old bicycling and pedestrian plan. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/25/top-reasons-why-people-dont-ride-a-bicycle/
Forget about the dishes in the sink. Forget about mowing the lawn and posting your blog. Forget about sleep. If you had 24 hours, how far could you ride your bicycle?
More than 400 bicyclists met at the National 24-Hour Challenge last weekend near Grand Rapids, Michigan, to seek the answer to that question. It was the 24th meeting for the event.
Seattle resident Craig Ragsdale, 29, learned he could set the course record by covering 502.6 miles. Just as amazing, 67-year-old Dave Thomsen of Austin, Minnesota, bicycled 403.9 miles. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/24/how-far-can-you-ride-your-bicycle-in-24-hours/
Website for National 24-hour Challenge
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/23/national-24-hour-challenge/
The other day, I finally topped the climb near my house. I paused to let the motorist in the oncoming lane make a right turn from the 3-way stop, as I prepared to make a left.
He made his turn. I started into the intersection, but the guy following him slid along behind him and we were on a collision course.
“Yo yo yo yo yo!” I distinctly remember yelling “Yo” five times. (In times of crisis I seem to revert to Rocky Balboa speak, as in “Yo, Paulie”.) He stopped, and I pedaled on through. About a half block away, I hear the car approaching and it is slowing down…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/23/apology-nearly-knocks-me-off-my-bike/
Bike riders at the 2007 Ride the Rockies will surely remember this as the Earth, Wind and Fire tour.
The earth would be the four soaring mountain passes they crossed in 7 days of cycling. The 1,000-acre wildlife blaze the cyclists passed Wednesday would be the fire.
And the micro-burst that blew down a large party tent, injuring three to five people, on Thursday at the Aspen encampment would be the wind. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/23/falling-tent-injures-riders-on-ride-the-rockies/
No support vehicles. No support crews. No calling anyone on a cell phone. No prizes. Few paved roads. What the hell kind of a bike race is this?
It's the Great Divide Race, the world's longest mountain bike race and arguably the most grueling.
Twenty-four mountain bikers set off from Port of Roosville, Montana, on the Canadian border on June 15 to tackle the 2,490-mile route to Antelope Wells, New Mexico, at the Mexican border.
They're following the stunningly beautiful and remote Great Divide Mountain Bike Route charted by the Adventure Cycling Association. It's pretty much all dirt road and trails criss-crossing the Continental Divide, with 200,000 feet of elevation gain along its course. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/22/no-support-for-cyclists-in-great-divide-race/
Photo by Aaron Teasdale, Adventure Cycling Association
Mike Gibney crosses a washed out road in the early going at Great Divide Race in Montana. The San Ramon fire fighter hopes to make the finish at the Mexican border.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/22/great-divide-race-2/
The Adventure Cycling Association's mountain bike route is used for the Great Divide Race.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/22/great-divide-bike-route/
Albany boutique owner died of injuries in bicycle accident. Fund in her name at New York Bicycling Coalition.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/21/diva-de-loayza/
Friends of an Albany, New York, boutique owner and fashion designer are raising funds for statewide bicycle training programs in her memory.
Diva de Loayza died on June 6 from injuries she received when she was struck by a minivan as she pedaled through a red light. She was knocked over the hood and crashed to the ground on her head; she was not wearing a helmet.
She also carried no identification, and it was two days before her identity was known. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/06/21/coming-to-terms-with-boutique-owners-bicycling-death-in-albany/
Adventure Cycling Association Trail biking Rails to Trails Conservancy League of American Bicyclists
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