This bunch of bicycles caught my eye at the Port Townsend Marina last month while I was on my bike tour of the Olympic Peninsula. The sailors who depend on the wind to propel their sailboats rely on their own muscle-power to get themselves around town. No fossil fuels involved.
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Bikes and boats at the Port Townsend Marina
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Two teen-agers died in separate MS 150 Bike Tour fund-raisers last weekend in collisions with motor vehicles.
Charlie Vogann, 15, died on the Oklahoma chapter bike tour, and Rachel Giblin, 15, was killed in an accident during the Mid-Atlantic chapter's Breakaway to the Beach bike ride in South Carolina. News reports say one accident occurred on a busy US highway, while the other happened when a volunteer waved cyclists through an intersection. …
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Hood Canal Bridge. 
Dungeness River Bridge. Johnson Creek and Morse Creek trestles.
When I biked over to the Olympic Peninsula a few weeks ago for a bicycle-camping trip, it wasn't my intention to recreate a romantic drama like Clint Eastwood's “Bridges of Madison County.”
There's nothing particularly romantic about a sweaty, dusty bicyclist with yesterday's laundry — chamois-side up — fastened to his bike trailer with bungee cords to dry.
But I did stop to take a few pictures of the bridges I crossed along the way. …
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Spain's Grand Tour bike race that started 2 1/2 weeks ago with 189 cyclists competing has boiled down to a battle between two cyclists — Alejandro Valverde of Spain and Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan.
Vinokourov tried to nail his overall Vuelta a Espana victory Thursday by crushing Valverde on steep slopes of the Pandera, gaining — with time bonuses — 44 seconds over his rival by the finish. This in spite of Valverde's pre-race pledge to attack and win on the mountain. …
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Seventy-year-old Sean Sweeney had a unique way of training for his latest bicycle tour from Montana to Alaska — he hauled sand.
The Adventure Cycling Association bike tour was his fourth long-distance tour since he bicycled cross country in 2002. To prepare for this 3,330-mile trek, he carried 50 pounds of sand in a BOB trailer up and down the Baltimore & Annapolis Trail in Maryland. …
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The Spring City Cycling Club of Huntsville, Alabama, is hosting this Saturday the 22nd running of a century bike ride with one of the most alluring names.
After cyclists finish one of the bike rides of 25, 50, 65, 90, or 107 miles in the “All You Can Eat”, they're treated to showers and a carbohydrate-rich Italian meal followed by ice cream sandwiches. …
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“Walking into a bar, we look like John Wayne — in spandex.”
Lar Winans, 72, describes his stiff gait …
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The bridge crossing the Hood Canal on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. The approaches to the bridge are wide enough, but the main span and center drawspan are very narrow. I stopped here just after the shoulder widened.
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Sean Sweeney, 70, of Annapolis with his bicycle rig in 2002. Photo appeared in Annapolis Capital. In 2006 the cyclist rode 3,300 miles from Missoula, Montana, to Anchorage, Alaska, on Adventure Cycling's North Star bike tour.
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