This old railroad trestle on the Cedar River Trail in Renton will be closed for approximately the next 10 days for repairs.
The sign says that a detour around the bridge over the Cedar River will be marked.
The detour takes bicyclists and other trail users through Riverview Park, out along Maple Valley Highway, and back to the trail about 150 yards east of Maplewood Roadside Park. ….
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While no entrance fees make it a good week to pay a visit to a national park for a bike ride, mountain bikers in Washington state are getting access to trails in two national forests for a couple of months before all-terrain vehicles.
The National Park Service is waiving entrance fees this week to celebrate National Park Week.
Normally, entrance to Mount Rainier National Park is $15 for private cars and trucks and $5 for anyone entering by foot or bicycle. Those fees won't be charged April 16-24.
While many roads into and through Mount Rainier are closed for the season, the Carbon River Road, above, is open year-round only to bicycles and hikers …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/04/17/bicycles-benefit-in-national-parks-and-was-national-forests/
Two of six National Forests in the state of Washington. These two remained closed to ATV use in the spring of 2011.
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In Mount Rainier National Park. August 2010.
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If you're interested in the history of track cycling, you might enjoy checking out Bernd Wagner's website on Walter Rutt and the Rutt-Arena.
One of Germany's great track cyclists of his day, it's likely that he competed against America's Major Taylor on the world circuit in the early years of the 20th century. Both cycled in the grueling six-day races and other track competitions in Europe, Australia and the U.S.
Both also had velodromes built in their names. The Rutt Arena, built with an investment from the retired cyclist, was completed in 1926 in Berlin. Later, Indianapolis built a velodrome …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/04/16/a-fans-collection-on-german-track-cyclist-walter-rutt/
An organization of state highway departments wants to erode a federal directive that would put bicycle and pedestrian traffic on an equal footing with motor vehicles in state and metropolitan transportation plans.
The League of American Bicyclists issued an “action alert” Friday morning asking bicyclists to contact their state transportation department chiefs to ask they reject the recommendation.
The group, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), is asking the US Department of Transportation to withdraw its guidance that says bicyclists and pedestrians be given “due consideration” in comprehensive planning ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/04/15/due-consideration-for-bicyclists-and-pedestrians-threatened/
Airport security screeners might notice a lot more biker's tans on passengers passing through Frontier Airlines gates as the carrier announced the removal of flat fees for bicycles on Wednesday.
The change means that bicycles will be charged as standard baggage — in some cases that's free. That's a big change in an airline industry where some carriers have begun charging as much as $175 for a bicycle in recent years.
What the Frontier announcement means in dollars and cents is that customers flying under the Classic or Classic Plus plan can include their bicycles as one of their two complimentary checked bags. Economy passengers would pay $20 if the bike is one of their first two checked bags ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/04/14/frontier-airlines-new-baggage-policy-favors-bicyclists/
Animals decorate tail assemblies of Frontier jets
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This week we mark the 150th anniversary of the bombardment of Fort Sumter, regarded as the opening salvo of the Civil War.
Over the next four years, we'll probably be the ones bombarded with memorials and re-enactments of the famous battles in what filmmaker Ken Burns called “the greatest war in American history.”
If this encourages you to visit one of the battlefields, you might want to consider doing so on a bicycle. I found that riding my bicycle in those places gave me a better feel for the human scale of the battle and the horror faced by the soldiers.
Pedaling the roads around the Antietam and Gettysburg battlefields, I was shocked ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/04/13/bicycling-the-civil-war-battlefields-more-than-a-dozen-rides-and-resources/
Ranger leads a bike ride every month.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/04/13/chickamauga-battlefield/
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