While Levi Leipheimer is battling for real, cycling enthusiasts can enjoy parts of the 2011 Amgen Tour of California from their own two wheels.
Some tourism bureaus are creating bicycle ride packages that enable weekend warriors to experience the route and in one case ride with the legends of cycling.
Of course, cyclists who don't need the sag support of an organized bike ride can follow the race maps supplied online. Just log into the Amgen Tour of California website and click on “Map” under the “Routes” tab.
Stage 1 of the Tour of California will be featured with the Start at the Top — Lake Tahoe Legends Ride ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/25/citizen-cyclists-can-ride-the-pro-routes-at-the-tour-of-california/
Start at the Top –Lake Tahoe bike ride associated with Tour of California.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/25/tour-of-california-ride/
A long-haul truck driver is seeing the road from a different perspective this spring as part of a two-man cross-country bicycle ride to raise funds for an Indiana-based land trust.
Calling their ride “Pedaling for Preserves,” the pair are heading into eastern Texas now on their 3,100-mile bike tour from San Diego to St. Augustine. At left they're taking a shady break in arid west Texas.
Trucker Kevin Gray and ACRES Land Trust director Jason Kissell are following the Southern Tier Bicycle Route, published by Adventure Cycling Association. That's the route taken by at least two other tours I've written about this spring, a group of seniors riding for childhood cancer and a father riding to honor his son killed by a texting motorist …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/24/trucker-trades-big-rig-steering-wheel-for-bicycle-handlebars/
Two men are riding across the Southern Tier to raise money for the ACRES land trust in Indiana
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/24/pedaling-for-preserves-cyclists/
Pedal-Driven: Duthie Hill from Howell at the Moon Productions on Vimeo.
“Pedal-Driven: A Bike-umentary” will get its first showing at the Sea Otter Classic in April, but it features plenty of scenes familiar to mountain bikers in the Pacific Northwest.
The film examines the confrontations between mountain bikers and other users of public lands in Washington state and elsewhere, and tells how the “freeriders” and the government policy-makers are finding ways to accommodate both sides of the issue.
The film features the alliances that were forged to create mountain biking trails at Duthie Hill park …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/23/pedal-driven-mountain-biking-film-debuts-at-sea-otter-classic/
Today is the deadline to vote for up to 9 candidates to the Cascade Bicycle Club board of directors.
If you're unsure about your choices or have questions, you can meet the 13 at a candidates forum from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday night (tonight) at The Brig (Building 406) at Magnuson Park.
You can fill out and drop off your ballot there, or send you ballot to Cascade Bicycle Club, 7400 Sand Point Way NE, Suite 101S, Seattle, WA 98115. The envelope must be postmarked by March 22 (that's today).
The election results will be certified by March 31 …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/22/cascade-bicycle-club-vote-deadline-is-today/
If you haven't signed up yet for the Seattle to Portland (STP) Bicycle Classic, it's too late.
The Cascade Bicycle Club reported that the ride sold out as of Monday morning. That's the earliest that the 10,000 spots have sold out.
If you're still hankering to go, check the Cascade Event and Ride page in the future to see how they're re-distributing registrations for people who are seeking refunds. There's usually some kind of late registration within 29 days of the event….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/22/stp-is-sold-out-some-spots-may-reopen-in-june/
“USHUAIA!!!! THE END OF THE WORLD!!! WE”RE HERE!!!! WE DID IT!!! WE REALLY DID IT!!!”
With that, Nancy Sathre-Vogel announced at her Twitter site on Monday that her “family on bikes” had successfully completed a self-supported bicycle tour the entire length of North and South America — a distance of some 17,290 miles.
For parents John and Nancy Vogel of Boise, Idaho, it's the dream of a lifetime. For 13-year-old twins Davy and Daryl, it means they'll be recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest to ride their bicycles the entire length of the two continents.
It also means that for the past 2-1/2 years, instead of attending school or watching TV, the boys were road-schooled by their parents and by the cultures and histories of the landscapes that they pedaled through ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/22/family-on-bikes-completes-record-setting-pan-american-adventure/
The Vogels celebrate at the end of the world in Tierra del Fuego. It's the southern-most point of the Pan American Highway.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/22/the-vogels/
A 19-year-old California cyclist who was killed by a motorist texting on her cell phone is being honored this spring by his father.
Dr. Robert Okerblom set off from San Diego on a solo cross-country bicycle tour on Feb. 27 to remember his son and bring attention to the big problem of cell phones distracting motorists.
Already he has raised awareness about the issue through newspaper interviews, classroom presentations, press conferences and one-on-one conversations with folks who just happen along and ask what he's up to with that bicycle.
Okerblom said he hadn't done much bicycling until after his son, Eric, was killed in July 2009 ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/21/father-rides-bike-across-country-to-honor-son-killed-by-texting-motorist/
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