Group seeks to promote green corridor over the Cascades
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If you're planning to ride your bicycle on the John Wayne Pioneer Rail-Trail this weekend, be prepared to rub shoulders with a lot of others with the same idea.
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust's 20th anniversary trek set off from Ellensburg Sunday morning for a bicycling and hiking trip for 130 miles, ending next Sunday in Seattle.
A highlight of the 8-day bike-hike will be the grand re-opening of the Snoqualmie Tunnel at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Hyak.
The 2.3-mile tunnel on cross-state rail-to-trail had been closed for a couple of years ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/07/03/trekkers-bike-and-hike-the-mountains-to-sound-greenway-this-week/
Belgium's national champion Phillippe Gilbert probably had to commit to the sprint earlier than he wanted, but still he survived to win Stage 1 and earn the yellow jersey at the Tour de France.
BMC Racing's Cadel Evans finished in 2nd place. One of this year's overall favorites, the Australian drove hard to trail Gilbert by just 3 seconds.
Meanwhile, defending champion Alberto Contador and chief rival Andy Schleck found themselves caught behind crashes near the end of Stage 1, but only Contador lost time because of it.. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/07/02/crash-delays-defending-champ-at-tour-de-france-stage-1/
Do you like the Tour de France? Do you enjoy watching the top cyclists battle for stage sprints? Are you looking forward to hearing announcer Phil Liggett say, “The rubber band has snapped!” to describe the peloton coming apart on a steep climb?
Then this is your month. The 2011 Tour de France rolls out on Saturday and runs through July 24.
Once again, Versus is televising the Tour live beginning at 8 a.m. (ET) on most mornings (earlier on some big mountain stages). However, the online component of Tour coverage will be at NBCSports.com.
That's because Comcast (owner of Versus) purchased NBC earlier this year …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/06/30/where-to-follow-the-2011-tour-de-france-tv-and-essential-links/
A few days ago, I wrote about Colorado's efforts to boost bicycle tourism by directing cyclists to tour some of the state's scenic highways in the Bike the Byways program.
Since then, I've discovered that Oregon is charting a series of scenic roads and paths just for bicycles. Called the Scenic Bikeway program, it is the only such project in the US.
The first scenic bike tour is the Willamette Scenic Bikeway that rolls out for 132 miles from Champoeg State Heritage Area to Eugene. The route passes through the agricultural valley between the Cascades and the Coastal ranges ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/06/29/oregons-scenic-bikeways-program-is-the-first-of-its-kind/
Logo for Oregon Scenic Bikeways program
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The first designated scenic bikeway in Oregon and the first in the nation. More are on the way. See Willamette Valley Scenic Bikeway.
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The 2011 Tour de France in 3-minutes and 40-seconds.
[Warning: May cause motion sickness or the desire to dip a 6-inch wide brush in yellow paint and stripe one of your regular bikes routes.]
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While Lance Armstrong's presence at the Tour de France is certainly part of the past, 10 Americans will line up when the peloton rolls out for Stage 1 on July 2.
It's one of the biggest represetations of US cyclists I can remember, and it reflects not only the old timers but some fresh faces.
Leading that group of veterans is George Hincapie, 37, above, of Greenville, SC. Now cycling for BMC, this will be Hincapie's 16th Tour de France. That ties retired Dutch cyclist Joop Zoetemelk's record ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/06/28/us-cyclists-line-up-for-2011-tour-de-france-updated/
Last winter I wrote about a report that found construction of bike lanes and paths in Baltimore created more jobs per $1 million than road construction.
The author of that report, Heidi Gerrett-Peltier, has expanded her research to 58 projects in 11 cities, including Seattle, and found that her original findings hold true.
“Bicycling infrastructure creates the most jobs for a given level of spending,” she writes in Pedestrian and Bicycle Infrastructure: A National Study of Employment Impacts.
The report compares job creation for road construction and rehabilitation, building new multi-use trails, widening roads to include bikes lanes …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/06/27/bicycle-lane-construction-gets-bigger-bang-for-the-buck/
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