See June 14 update: New route for Ride the Rockies will avoid fire zone
Five high mountain passes and 24,937 vertical feet of climbing can’t stop the 2000 cyclists on the Ride the Rockies bicycle tour this week in Colorado, but a wild land fire can.
The High Park Fire has burned about 43,000 acres …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/06/12/wildfire-could-reroute-ride-the-rockies-and-bicycle-tour-of-colorado/
The US Postal Service gives a nod to exercise and fuel-effecient transportation with its release of four postage stamps depicting different styles of bicycling.
The set of “forever” stamps were released officially in Minneapolis last week. That stung some folks in Portland, where they were still celebrating after taking over the No. 1 spot from Minneapolis in Bicycling magazine’s list of top cities for bicycling.
Commuter or bike traveler?
Now I don’t want to stir up controversy here, but …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/06/11/is-that-a-bike-commuter-or-bicycle-tourist-on-new-stamp/
Sad news from Kentucky where a 71-year-old touring bicyclist from Chico, California, died from injuries he suffered when he fell off his bike.
Retired Yuba City dentist Oliver “Ollie” Scheideman Jr. was fulfilling his dream to complete a TransAmerica bicycle tour. An earlier attempt in 2009 ended when he crashed soon after the start of …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/06/10/tragic-end-to-transamerica-tour-for-california-cyclist/
It might not feel like summer yet, but a couple of summer bicycling events are on tap this weekend in the Seattle area.
The 3-day Evergreen Mountain Bike Festival gets underway this evening with its volunteer recognition celebration at Duthie Hill Park. The mountain bike event continues all-day Saturday at Duthie and Sunday at Black Diamond.
Then on Saturday, the Flying Wheels Century takes a flying start in Redmond. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/06/08/bicycling-on-road-and-dirt-on-tap-in-seattle-area-this-weekend/
Mike Hall triumphantly arrived in Greenwich, England, on Monday to end his around-the-world bicycle tour in an amazing 92 days.
The 31-year-old engineer’s elapsed time crushed the previous Guinness World record of 106 days set in 2010.
For comparison, a previous record set by Scotsman Mark Beaumont (author of “The Man who Cycled the World”) …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/06/04/englishman-breaks-record-for-around-the-world-bicycle-tour/
The roads and trails along Mississippi River are gaining new, and well deserved, attention as destinations for bicycle touring.
Earlier in May, the US Bicycle Route System added a 150-mile stretch of trail and road — USBRS 45 — that connected Hastings, Minnesota, to the Iowa border.
Now a team of bicyclists, above, from Tennessee …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/06/01/new-bicycle-routes-along-the-mississippi-river-get-attention/
I don’t know if they’re popping champagne corks at the Adventure Cycling Association offices in Missoula this morning; probably they’re just topping off their water bottles and heading out for a celebratory bike ride.
They’d be celebrating because the nonprofit achieved its goal of raising $50,000 for the U.S. Bicycle Route System by last night’s …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/06/01/successful-fund-raising-campaign-at-adventure-cycling-association/
Five intrepid bicyclists are still grinding their way around the globe in the World Cycle Racing Grand Tour, with one on a record-setting pace.
They are all that’s left of a group of 10 bicyclists who set out, mostly from London, on Feb. 18 with the goal of achieving a world record in the first-ever …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/05/31/record-setting-finish-predicted-next-week-for-world-cycle-racing-challenge/
The amazing journey of Xiao Sa is no shaggy dog story.
The small stray dog latched onto a group of touring bicyclists in central China and followed them all the way to Tibet, a distance of some 1,000 miles.
The little fella ran all day with the bicyclists after they fed him. They named him Xiao Sa, and now he’s famous…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/05/29/xiao-sa-the-small-dog-adopted-on-trans-tibetan-bicycle-tour/
The U.S. Bicycle Route System continues to grow.
Two new routes have been designated for numbering in the upper Midwest this month — USBR 35 in Michigan and USBR 45 in Minnesota (both shown in red at left).
In addition, USBR 1 in North Carolina was re-aligned.
The new routes add more than 600 miles to the bicycle route network that already includes other routes …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/05/21/two-new-u-s-bicycle-routes-approved/
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