Jacob Richardson, left, and Raphael Parker are cycling across Southeast Asia to raise awareness for women's rights.
Why is it that two men have decided to take their campaign to encourage equal rights for women to an area where they are regularly taken advantage of?
On their Tour for Equality website, Jacob and Raphael say that “sexual and legal …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/08/16/men-cycling-across-asia-seek-equality-for-women/
Byron Linthicum Jr. is pedaling cross-country for two this summer.
The 23-year-old cyclist from Richmond, Virginia, is the sole rider on a tandem for a fund-raiser in memory of his friend, Stephen Neller.
Linthicum is raising pledges and awareness for cystic fibrosis, the lung disease that struck down his friend. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/08/10/solo-cross-country-bike-tour-on-tandem/
Here's a truly neat idea — use your bicycle to frame your tent.
Topeak, which has been making gadgets for bicycles for about 15 years, has developed this solo tent called the Bikamper that doesn't need tent poles. According to the product information on the website, it appears that you use your unattached front wheel at one end and your …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/08/09/tent-uses-bike-for-support/
The Courage Classic winds up on Monday, meaning there is still a Cascade pass — namely the 4,061-foot elevation Stevens Pass — to climb for 425 bicycle riders.
The cyclists already have topped Snoqualmie Pass (at 3,022 feet) and Blewett Pass (at 4,100 feet).
By the time they roll into the finish in Skykomish, the cyclists have climbed 7,068 feet on their 172-mile …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/08/08/three-days-three-mountain-passes-in-courage-classic/
If all went well, and I'm sure it did, Lawrence Dye (left) chalked up career mile No. 100,000 this weekend.
The 73-year-old cyclist has logged 85,000 of those miles on the Virginia Creeper Trail, a 34.5-mile rail-to-trail crushed gravel route in southwestern Virginia, since 1990.
Let me do the math. On average, Dye has knocked out 5,600 miles a year …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/08/08/85000-miles-on-the-34-5-mile-virginia-creeper-bike-trail/
Some people will do anything for a story.
Take Joe Kurmaskie, for instance. The bicycling humorist, also known as the Metal Cowboy, has hit the cross-country highway by bicycle this summer with his two kids in tow.
That's literally in tow, as Quinn is 7 and Lorenzo is 5. From the description in the Kansas City Star, Kurmaskie …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/08/06/metal-cowboy-on-the-road-with-his-sons/
Bicycles painted a ghoulish white are appearing around Seattle to mark locations of car-bike accidents.
The displays are the work of the GhostCycle bike accident awareness project. The activists want to draw attention to particularly hazardous locations where bike accidents happen.
The group collected data on bicycle accidents from cyclists at its GhostCycle.com website for about three months. Then it took …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/08/02/ghostcycle-tracks-seattle-bike-accidents/
(UPDATED 8/4/05) The support bus for Team Wheel malfunctioned on a steep hill heading into Guttenberg and crashed on Saturday, the last day of RAGBRAI.
A passenger, Brandi Helmkamp, 30, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, was thrown from the bus during the accident and was airlifted to University Hospitals in Iowa City where she was admitted in serious condition, reported the Des Moines …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/08/01/2-injured-in-bus-crash-on-last-day-of-ragbrai/
Searing heat and torrential thunderstorms have beset the opening days of RAGBRAI this year.
The Des Moines Register, sponsor of the across Iowa bicycle tour for the past 33 years, reports temperatures soaring into the 100s over the weekend at the start in LeMars.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/07/25/severe-weather-death-mars-ragbrai-start/
Cyclists from 36 states left Seattle for Portland this morning for the 26th annual STP bike ride.
I couldn't join them this year, so I did the next best thing: I cycled over to Lake Washington early this morning and took pictures of all the fresh cyclists on their way out of town, like these two guys on their modified …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/07/09/more-than-8500-cyclists-begin-seattle-to-portland-stp/
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