Ever get tired of waiting for government to act? David Brickley did.
That's why he took it on himself to purchase the rights to a 16-mile railroad right-of-way through King George County and launch plans for the Dahlgren Railroad Heritage Trail as a bicycling and hiking path near Fredericksburg, Virginia.
The Rails to Trails newsletter reports on Brickley, who saw the railbed in 1999 when he worked as director of a state agency. Try as he might, however, he couldn't interest the county's board of commissioners to develop a bike-hike trail.
Fearing the tract might be chopped up …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/12/26/virginia-man-saves-railbed-for-use-as-bike-trail/
Virginia bike and hike trail. See website.
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Who is my top bicycling hero? Lance Armstrong — warm. Greg LeMond — warmer. Freddie Hoffman — bingo!
Why Hoffman? For starters, he's ridden his bicycle to the moon and back, twice.
Hoffman, 48, was born with an oxygen deficiency. It led to developmental problems that caused him to be ostracized by his classmates and peers. He turned to his bicycle for companionship.
Inspired by watching astronauts travel to the moon, Hoffman got it in his head to turn his bicycle into a virtual spacecraft and pedal the distance to the moon — some 240,000 miles — here on Earth. Bicycling nearly every day, Hoffman has covered 1.3 million miles.
How did he do it? …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/12/25/freddie-hoffman-the-million-mile-bicyclist/
Uber long distance cyclist.
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While their son talks to reporters from newspapers and magazines in Europe and the US, Floyd Landis's parents talked to the local Rotary Club this week.
Landis's strict Mennonite upbringing by his parents became an interesting sidelight to his career in 2006 as he racked up more and more bicycle race wins. But his parents were thrust into the news with the accusations that their son doped to win a stage of the 2006 Tour de France. Paul and Arlene had slightly different takes on their experiences since the doping allegations …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/12/24/landiss-mennonite-parents-on-very-short-lecture-circuit/
“I got a whole lot of good stuff from the White House. I can’t describe how it felt. I know it felt good.”
Moses Mathis, aka The Bicycle Man, describing his reaction to receiving the President's Call to Action Award and a letter from President Bush. Mathis earned the honor by performing a minimum 4,000 hours of volunteer service …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/12/23/quote-the-bicycle-man/
Howard at the HRlaughed blog tagged me to tell five things you probably don't know about me. I fear the consequences of ignoring such a request, but I'm having a little trouble picking which obscure facts to tell. Everything seems obscure.
Here are the first five that come to mind (chronologically):
1. I grew up in a suburb of Cincinnati in a house where my dad smoked constantly …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/12/21/tag-im-it-five-things-you-probably-dont-know-about-me/
This is like one of those fantasy matches: “What if Satchel Paige pitched against Ichiro,” or “What if Johnny Unitas' Baltimore Colts took on Peyton Manning's Indianapolis Colts?”
The Floyd Landis camp issued a press release Tuesday that their guy is going to get on his mountain bike and race in the Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race, scheduled Aug. 11, 2007, in Leadville, Colorado.
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong had already agreed to ride in Leadville. This sets up a challenge between two Tour de France winners in a slightly different contest.
Who's missing? Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond, of course. Wouldn't that be a wild contest? …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/12/19/its-official-landis-vs-armstrong-in-leadville-100/
This blog hasn't been updated for a few days because 
Mother Nature opened up a big can of whoop-ass on western Washington last week. She kicked my butt; and I'm one of the lucky ones.
A major windstorm struck Thursday night. Among the thousands of trees that fell was one trunk of a beautiful big leaf maple that was a home for birds and squirrels and provided welcome shade for my family in the summertime.
That's the view from my office window. The tree toppled across three back yards and crushed two fences. It missed two houses by 10 feet or less. When it gets sawed up and removed, its two standing brothers are going with it. They may be rotten too, and I can't risk endangering our neighbors.
I haven't had much time to deal with that tree, though. Until 5 p.m. Monday, my wife and I have been trying to keep the kids warm and occupied. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/12/19/getting-through-the-windstorm-of-06/
Neighbor's car, windstorm 06
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Adventure Cycling Association Trail biking Rails to Trails Conservancy League of American Bicyclists
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