Bill Cook's cross-country bicycle adventure ended in Washington, D.C., this week.
The 70-year-old retired journalist's 3,248-mile recumbent bike tour ended 49 days after it started in Seattle, where he left with a supported tour organized by the Adventure Cycling Association. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/12/70-year-olds-cross-country-bike-trip-ends-at-lincoln-memorial/
Joe Bowen, a very fit Kentucky cyclist, pedaled off on a 14,000-mile bicycle tour last spring to visit nearly every state in the US — a second time.
Bowen was repeating a bicycle trek he took upon his discharge from the Air Force in 1967 when he left Lompoc, California, and bicycled through 46 states before returning home to eastern Kentucky.
Now, at 63, Bowen is returning home again …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/14/joe-bowen-ending-14000-mile-around-america-bicycle-tour/
The record-setting around-the-world bicycle life-journey of Heinz Stücke has come to a dead stop in Portsmouth, UK, where his bike was stolen this week.
This is not any old bike. This three-speed is the one Stücke has ridden to nearly every country on Earth since he embarked on the 335,000 journey from his home in Germany in 1962. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/05/09/44-year-worldwide-bicycle-tour-interrupted-by-theft/
A 57-year-old former phys ed teacher has finished her 800-mile ride from Evansville, Indiana, to Eunice, Louisiana.
It's not a bike ride that follows any established bicycle routes. But it was the most direct route from Becky Jones' home to the small Louisiana town that nearly doubled its population with evacuees from last fall's hurricanes. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/05/03/cycling-to-support-the-volunteers/
How are you going to celebrate your 100th birthday? Clair Duckham went for a bike ride.
The 100-year-old resident of an assisted living center in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, hit the road stoking a tandem on a 5-mile ride through nearby Wheaton. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/05/02/still-bicycling-at-100/
Bill Wilcox's day usually includes a 10- to 20-mile bike ride. That's how the retired West Virginian engineer stays in shape to ride RAGBRAI this summer.
Wilcox, 75, of Shepherdstown has ridden the 500-mile, week-long Iowa bike tour for the past 12 years. He usually rides with this two son's-in-law, although he has biked it alone — just Wilcox and 10,000 to 12,000 other bicycle enthusiasts. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/04/27/75-year-old-cyclist-tackles-ragbrai-again/
What do you do if you're 60 and suffer a brain aneurysm that renders you without the ability to read or write?
If you're Megan Timothy, left, you work hard for two years to recover your lost ability to communicate, write a book, sell it to a publisher and climb on a touring bicycle to make a cross-country book promotion tour.
“Because I've always been an adventurer, I'm going on this little adventure to prove myself whole again.” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/19/cycling-cross-country-to-promote-a-book-about-brain-injury-recovery/
“You reach the top of a mountain pass … it’s real … it does something to you. Humping up a steep 1,000-foot elevation with 40 pounds of gear, it’s hard. You’ve accomplished something. And there’s still all this country there before you.”
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/03/16/bicycle-quote-the-simple-beauty-of-bike-touring/
Bicycle touring vacations are going to become more commonplace as the Baby Boomer generation begins to retire.
The Los Angeles Times travel section reports that bicycle touring companies are becoming a growing segment in the travel industry, and many of those companies are online, although …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/01/08/bicycle-touring-with-a-lot-of-dough-or-on-the-cheap/
Cyclists shouldn't be suffering a lot of fear and loathing over the possibilities of male impotence caused by bike saddles. Anyway, isn't anxiety a major cause of erectile dysfunction?
The New York Times interviewed several specialists in a story this week (“Serious Riders, Your Bicycle Seat May Affect Your Love Life”) that concludes that most bike saddles do little to protect the sex organs …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/11/dont-fret-over-bike-saddle-it-might-only-make-things-worse/
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