This summer’s edition of the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI) promises to be the third shortest and second flattest in the mass event’s 42-year history.
Organizers announced the closely guarded secret of the host cities on Saturday night.
The ride starts for the first time in Rock Valley, in the west, and …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/01/25/2014-ragbrai-route-announcement-short-and-flat/
Those travelers who crisscross Montana by bicycle leave a lot of money behind as they go, spending on average between $75 to $102 a day.
That according to “Analysis of Touring Cyclists,” a study by the Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research at University of Montana in cooperation with the nonprofit Adventure Cycling Association, based …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/01/23/touring-bicyclists-pump-up-montanas-economy-study/
Congratulations to Daniel Burton for becoming the first human to ride a bicycle across Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 50-year-old former computer programmer from Utah reached his goal on Tuesday, completing a 730-mile ride over mountains and snow ridges across the desolate frozen continent in 50 days.
At his blog, The South Pole Epic, …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/01/21/utah-man-is-first-to-ride-a-bicycle-across-antarctica-to-south-pole/
Former US Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, whose decision to become a serious poet was prompted by a Bikecentennial bicycle tour, is recovering from injuries she suffered in a bike-car collision near her California home last week.
The 68-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning poet is suffering from a broken hip, rib and collarbone, as well as a head …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/01/20/former-us-poet-laureate-recovering-from-bicycle-car-collision/
If you shoot video of your bicycle tours for family and friends, you might want to consider sharing with the bicycle touring community at large.
There might be a little something in it for you.
The Adventure Cycling Association is hosting its second annual Bicycle Travel Video Contest at Vimeo….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/01/17/bicycle-travel-video-contest-observes-lure-of-open-road/
Are you looking for some ideas about a supported bicycle tour or independent bike adventure to take this summer? Or would you like to share one of your tours with the bicycle world?
A new website called Cyclotouring.com is meant to be a resource that achieves both those results.
Started just a few weeks ago …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/01/16/new-website-shares-bicycle-tour-information/
[STP is sold out as of Feb. 18, 2014. A few more tickets can be earned, and others will be auctioned off. See Cascade Bicycle Club blog.)
Plan to register early if you want to ride in the STP (Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic), RSVP (Ride from Seattle to Vancouver and Party!), or other popular …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/31/registration-opens-soon-for-2014-rsvp-1-2-stp-and-other-cascade-bike-rides/
Hey NASCAR. On yer left!
Eight hundred bicyclists are on the way!
At least that many cyclists are expected to ride a lap on the Daytona International Speedway next spring as one highlight in Bike Florida’s week-long bicycle tour to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
The March 22-28 ride — named the Magical History Tour — …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/30/bike-florida-heads-to-speedway-for-20th-anniversary-bike-tour-in-2014/
When Denise Blanchard lost control of her bicycle and fell hard on a gravel road in Kansas, she thought last year’s TransAmerica bicycle tour was over for her and her husband, Charles Coderre.
She wrote at her blog, CharDenVeloMonde (translated from French):
“I lose control of my bike completely and it is the fall! Ayayaye! It hurts! I …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/09/trail-angels-save-the-day-for-canadian-couple-on-bicycle-tour/
One of the longest operating cross-country charity bike tours is undergoing changes that puts it in private hands.
The American Lung Association’s Big Ride Across America will be owned and operated by Bicycle Bliss, LLC, a bike touring company owned by Charlton DuRant and Lynn Petrotte.
The two have been ride directors for Big Ride …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/11/30/cross-country-charity-bike-ride-goes-private-for-2014/
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