You've heard of Rails to Trails. How about turnpikes to bike pikes?
In southern Pennsylvania, cyclists can have the expressway to themselves where an abandoned stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike is being turned into a bike path.
Bike 2 Pike runs about 8.5 miles …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/03/bike-the-pike-in-pennsylvania/
I've seen stories about people fleeing Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on bicycles; this is the first about someone cycling toward the stricken areas.
Helen Roberts is bicycling from Aspen, Colorado, to Baton Rouge to raise money for the hurricane victims and volunteer with the Red Cross. The 43-year-old cyclist embarked recently on her Cannondale pulling a Burley trailer loaded with …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/03/colorado-woman-cycles-toward-hurricane-destruction/
… Davis, California. The League of American Bicyclists recognized the city as its only platinum-level Bicycle Friendly Community on Wednesday.
Why Davis, you ask? Is it because the city features that cool highwheeler in its logo?
League of American Bicyclists executive director Andy Clarke says 17 percent of journeys to work are made by bicycle. Davis has more than …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/09/29/and-the-most-bicycle-friendly-city-in-the-us-is/
Lance Armstrong meet Manon Horwood.
As you're leaving San Diego on Thursday at the head of the Tour of Hope entourage heading to Washington DC, Horwood will be pedaling alone on a Canadian highway heading west from Jasper, Alberta.
Although your styles differ, you both have the same goal: to raise funds and awareness in the battle against cancer by …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/09/28/quebec-cyclist-on-around-the-world-tour-for-cancer-funds/
I doubt that you'd find 73-year-old Glenna Hunter sitting around her Truckee, Nevada, home in a rocking chair. But if you did, she'd probably be reminiscing about a 3,100-mile cross-country bicycle ride she took earlier this year.
Glenna rode her bicycle from San Diego to St. Augustine, Florida, in 58 days. She was the oldest in a group of 20 women over …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/09/23/age-doesnt-stop-cross-country-cyclist/
A French wire service reports that Paris may offer cheap bicycle rentals at 350 Paris metro stations. Some US cities, such as Austin (photo at left), are doing them one better by offering free bikes and bike rebuilding classes.
The Agence France-Presse says the first 30 minutes would be free; after that, 50 cents to one euro an hour. The idea is to reduce car traffic in the French capital. In Lyon, where 1,000 bikes are available, a bike official said more than 10,000 rentals were made last month.
It's a great idea; but let's talk about free bikes in the US. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/09/16/paris-to-offer-cheap-bike-rentals-bikes-are-free-in-some-us-cities/
“Besides the trees, eastern Kentucky housed a wildly variant population of canines curiously united in one over-arching intent – that was to peel the flesh from my shins like a ripe banana. This included a way-too-near miss by a Rottweiler and a valiant attempt by a three-legged collie.”
Rick Gunn, photographer for the Tahoe Daily Tribune, writing about his around-the-world bike tour …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/09/15/bicycle-quotes-kentuckys-cantankerous-canines/
The Pacific Northwest's largest bicycle club has decided to donate all the proceeds from this upcoming Sunday's Cascade Spawning Cycle to the American Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Disasater Relief Fund.
I believe this is the second year for the Cascade Bicycle Club's spawning cycle bike tour that features four bike loops around Seattle on Sunday, Sept. 18. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/09/12/seattle-bike-ride-to-raise-funds-for-hurricane-disaster-relief/
What critter posed the biggest threat to Jason Hill at the beginning of his 19,000-mile bicycle ride? The bear.
What critter actually has caused the most problems? The mosquito.
The 34-year-old cyclist, shown here at the Arctic Circle in June, is pedaling from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. He expects the trip will take him two years. While most bicycle …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/09/07/cycling-from-north-to-south-through-the-americas/
Since I began writing this bicycling blog about eight months ago, I've written about some folks making some interesting cross-country rides, like the bicycling school teacher, Joe Bowen, at left.
Some of them are cycling for a cause — that's how they find their way into newspapers and how I learn about their trip and write about them. Others are just doing it for the adventure.
But what's become …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/09/04/catching-up-with-bicycle-tourists/
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