It's not uncommon to overpack when starting out on a cross-country bicycle tour.
You soon learn that the comfort of an extra sweater, long pants or other clothing isn't worth the struggle of lugging it over hill after hill.
So when Mary Tiller and Amanda Barnett set out on their cross-country trip from Anacortes, Washington, to Bar Harbor, Maine, they …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/22/too-tired-to-cook-after-cycling-all-day/
The Great Allegheny Passage sounds like something blazed for grisly pioneers in deerskin, not cyclists in spandex.
But a group of folks from everyday walks of life is creating this rail-to-trail route.
They say that as early as 2006 it will carry cyclists all the way from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cumberland, Maryland, a distance of about 150 miles.
At Cumberland, cyclists can pick up the C&O Canal towpath, which is an ever-descending path along the Potomac River all the way to Washington DC …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/21/one-day-soon-bicycle-from-pittsburgh-to-dc-on-bike-path/
What do Australians consider the top 10 bike rides?
The Escape.com.au website lists two very different rides for cyclists in the US: the week-long RAGBRAI across Iowa and the 1-day Bike New York through the city's 5 boroughs.
In its homeland, the website touts the Great Victorian Bike Ride, left, Nov. 26 to Dec. 4, as one of the …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/13/aussies-favorite-bike-rides-in-the-world/
It's been a little more than a year since cyclist Josie Johnson, left, 25, was killed after an SUV struck her from behind at the edge of a Utah road.
That fatality, the third cycling death in Utah in 37 days, galvanized bicycle advocates in Utah into seeking stronger laws to make bicycling safer.
Their actions resulted in the Utah legislature …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/13/cyclists-death-leads-to-new-law-in-utah/
Next year marks the 30th anniversary of Bikecentennial, the predecessor to the Adventure Cycling Association. Staff members will be hitting the road to talk about what's new.
For the most part, cross-country touring all started with Bikecentennial. Sure, bicyclists had picked their way from one coast to the other before then. But 1976 — the nation's bicentennial — marked the first time …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/12/adventure-cycling-association-coming-to-a-city-near-you/
Helen Roberts, the cycling volunteer from Colorado, has reached Baton Rouge where she's awaiting a ride to hurricane-devastated Pearlington, Mississippi. Pearlington is a small river town that's been all but ignored by federal relief agencies.
Helen left Aspen in mid-September on her Cannondale, pulling a trailer with 50 pounds of gear. In a few days, she'll be living in a brick school house, one of the few buildings left standing…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/12/pearlington-ms-not-forgotten-by-cycling-volunteer/
They didn't get to ride, but the 1,500 cyclists who signed up for the 50-mile final leg of the Tour of Hope accomplished what they set out to do: raise money for cancer research.
Heavy rains, 7.25 inches in two days, according to Operation Gadget, forced cancellation of the Grand Finale of the cross-country bicycling tour to raise funds and awareness in the battle against cancer.
There were some bloggers among the cyclists …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/09/poor-communication-at-washed-out-tour-of-hope-finale/
This has to be a huge disappointment for 1,500 cyclists who raised money to ride the final leg of Lance Armstrong's cross-country Tour of Hope.
Heavy rains in Washington DC forced cancellation of the grand finale activities at the Ellipse, where the grounds were flooded. Dave Aeillo, the blogger at Operation Gadget, took this picture from the starting line …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/08/tour-of-hope-grand-finale-cancelled-for-cyclists/
Drizzle. Cold. It spells the end of those mass weekend recreational cycling events in the Pacific Northwest. But those bike rides are still going strong in California.
Many clubs and organizations bracket their big bike rides around the hot summer months. Plenty of events are offered in October and early November. I've listed about 20 of them at California Bike Rides under the …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/05/mt-diablo-challenge-and-other-fall-bike-rides-in-california/
The bane of western cyclists — puncture vine — is coming under full-fledged attack in Idaho.
The non-native weed is also known as goathead, ground bur-nut, caltrop, Texas sandbur, and f*#%ing things, as in, “One of those f*#%ing things just flatted my bike tire!”
The seed forms a spiked pod (above) that sits on the ground waiting for its next bicycling …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/04/all-out-goathead-assault-in-idaho/
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