Cycle Oregon bicycle tour for 2011. Limited to 2,200 cyclists.
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Thursday is the day that corporate lobbyists for the transportation industry take a back seat to those voters seeking better choices in transportation policy at the Washington state capitol in Olympia.
Transportation Choices Coalition is organizing the Transportation Advocacy Day for people to meet their legislators and press for more funding and support for bicycling, walking and transit issues.
The coalition is setting up carpools from Seattle and shuttle buses from the Amtrak station. ….
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Sponsoring transportation advocacy day in Olympia.
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Bicycling enthusiasts know the Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI) and the Denver Post Ride the Rockies as two iconic cross-state bicycle tours with a combined history of 65 years.
RAGBRAI is the easy one that rolls across the flatness of Iowa. Ride the Rockies is the challenging one that summits mountain passes nearly every day.
Those myths don't exactly bear up to the facts, however.
In terms of elevation gain — which should really be the yardstick for comparing a flat ride and a mountainous ride — there's not much difference between the two. In fact, bicycle riders on 2011 RAGBRAI will face more climbing ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/08/myth-busting-the-ragbrai-and-ride-the-rockies-bike-tours/
This constantly rolling terrain can take a heavy toll on cyclists. It's one reason that RAGBRAI rivals Ride the Rockies in total elevation gain year in and year out.
Photo by BlueBike at flickr.com.
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Requirements for mandatory bicycle registration in some California cities appear to be going the way of the penny farthing into near-extinction.
Long Beach is the latest city to consider abandoning its mandatory bicycle license program. Late last year San Jose ended bicycle registration, a law that had been on the books since 1974, and Los Angeles ended its program in 2009.
[Update: Feb. 9 — The Long Beach City Council approved halting the licensing program.]
The issue in Long Beach is scheduled to come up at Tuesday's City Council meeting, according to the Long Beach Press-Telegram. The city calls itself the most bicycle-friendly in the US; it is listed as a bronze-level bicycle friendly community ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/07/update-long-beach-abandons-bicycle-license-program/
You mountain goats of the bicycling world should be happy to see that Ride the Rockies returns for its 26th year in 2011 with six mountain passes in six days.
The route for the 412-mile bike tour presented by the Denver Post was revealed on Sunday, with registration opening now through Feb. 25.
The mass participation bike ride, which accepts 2,000 cyclists by lottery, runs from June 11 – 17 from Crested Butte to Georgetown.
For those who might be interested in two weeks of supported bicycle touring, the Bicycle Tour of Colorado starts …
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2011 bike route for Ride the Rockies
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The president of Lees-McRae College sees the future and it is bicycles.
The small college in the hills of Banner Elk, North Carolina, will become the first in the nation to offer a minor in Bicycle Studies when the program is launched this spring.
Already an athletic cycling powerhouse with 10 national championships since 2003, now bicycling will roll into the academic realm with course offerings for careers on and off the bike.
Students seeking a minor in Bicycle Studies will learn bicycle history and the principles of bicycling, as well as …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/05/collegiate-cycling-powerhouse-first-to-offer-minor-in-bicycling/
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