I can ride my bike with no handlebars, but I can't write and send a Twitter message while I pedal along.
But Janeen McCrae can.
That's because McCrae rides Precious, a bicycle that's been outfitted with sensors and electronics that enable it to send out Tweets with the push of a button. Actually, McCrae and Precious collaborate on the Twitter messages.
McCrae is riding Precious from coast-to-coast on Adventure Cycling's TransAmerica Bicycle Route to raise money for the Livestrong Foundation ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/08/16/precious-the-bicycle-that-posts-tweets-as-it-travels-cross-country/
A cyclist from the U.K. is riding across the U.S. on a bicycle with three goals in mind: To travel. To share. To inspire.
But Dominic Gill isn't making the journey alone. He's riding from the rear seat of a tandem bicycle that's outfitted so the captain sits in back and the stoker rides and pedals out front.
Gill's passengers are all people whose physical impairments would make it impossible for them to make the trip on their own.
Keith Rogers at the Las Vegas Review Journal writes about one of those passengers, Carlos Terrazas, 22, who has been blind since birth…..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/08/13/helping-others-to-enjoy-bicycle-touring/
It's been a while since I've written about my monthly bicycling mileage totals, but July represents a good all-around biking month for me.
My monthly “tale of the tape” was a common topic of this blog back in 2008 when I was shooting for a 4,000-mile year; I finally achieved it by plowing my bike through the snow on the last day of the year.
With no goal in mind for 2009, I bicycled 2,496 miles. So far in 2010, I've covered 2,046 miles on either my road bike or mountain bike.
I don't have a hard and fast goal set for 2010, except for one objective: Stay ahead of Barry ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/08/01/staying-ahead-of-barry-julys-tale-of-the-tape/
A RAGBRAI cyclist died after falling from his bicycle and two others suffered injuries from collisions with motor vehicles in the latter half of the Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa.
A 68-year-old RAGBRAI veteran died Friday from injuries he suffered when he clipped the tire of another bicycle and fell.
The man, Stephen Briggs of Waverly, Iowa, …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/31/fatality-injuries-mar-ragbrai-bike-ride/
As I was wheeled down the hospital hallway to O.R. for prostate surgery a few years ago, I tried to carry on a conversation with the orderly about RAGBRAI, the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa.
He'd been there with some friends and said it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Just before nodding out, I remember thinking, “If I ever get through this…”
Well, I got through it, but I haven't made it to RAGBRAI. Not yet. I give props to the 10,000 to 15,000 bicyclists who made plans to do the ride and are now on the road across the Hawkeye State for the 38th anniversary of the mass bike ride ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/27/ragbrai-cyclists-rolling-across-iowa-this-week/
College students in a charity bicycling group that supports affordable housing on cross-country bicycle tours are mourning the loss of one of their fellow riders.
Paige Hicks of Chesterfield, Missouri, was struck and killed by a truck in South Dakota on Tuesday. She was a student at Brown University.
She was on her second cross-country bicycle ride for Bike & Build. The group organizes college students to raise money for affordable housing projects and help build houses at different locations as they ride their bikes coast-to-coast.
Hicks was riding the Providence, Rhode Island, to Seattle route this summer ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/25/bike-build-bicyclist-mourned-this-weekend/
A British Olympic rowing star is recovering from head injuries suffered when he was struck from behind by a truck while bicycling across Arizona for a Discovery Channel film documentary.
James Cracknell and a crew, including his wife, were filming his cross-country challenge when the collision occurred on Tuesday between Flagstaff and Winslow on Interstate 40.
He was last reported to be concious and making a good recovery in a hospital in Winslow, although his cross-country adventure has been suspended ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/23/british-cyclist-hit-by-truck-while-filming-in-arizona/
The 10,000 cyclists making the 200-mile ride from Seattle to Portland this weekend will face light clouds changing to sunny weather the whole way. Look for highs in the mid 70s on Saturday, rising to the low 80s in Portland on Sunday.
At the risk of jinxing the ride for everyone, I'll tell you there's no chance for precipitation in the forecast. You can leave that rain gear at home.
This weekend marks the 31st anniversary of the STP Bicycle Classic, the Cascade Bicycle Club's premier presentation of the year. Popularity of the ride is so high that it sold out in April this year, earlier than ever.
Cascade has made a last-minute route change on the approach to Portland this year. Instead of taking the St. John's Bridge, cyclists will be routed over the Steel Bridge. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/15/stp-forecast-sunscreen-and-route-change-with-a-chance-of-road-rash/
Some fellow cyclists who check out my ride and see the gear I use consider me a bicycling luddite, a descendant of those 19th century textile workers who fought progress.
For me, it's usually a matter of economics, instead of aesthetics. But for ultra-cycling promoter Chris Kostman, his choice of bicycles is definitely philosophical.
Check out Kostman with his bicycle in the picture here. What's a guy doing at the top of this mountain with a road bike? Then consider his “Mountain Bikes: Who Needs Them” article penned back in 1993 that announced his “Any Bike, Anywhere” manifesto.
Now, after all this time, Kostman is looking for other like-minded individuals to take part in a Rough Riders Rally on July 23 – 25 in Marin County, California. The event uses paved roads and dirt trails that wind through the scenic Marin Headlands overlooking the Pacific Ocean ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/09/any-bike-anywhere-for-the-rough-riders-rally-in-july/
Here's my campsite at Alice Creek on the John Wayne Pioneer Trail, a rail-trail that stretches from near North Bend all the way to the Columbia River.
It seemed like one of the first sunny, dry days in a while, and I was lucky to be able to take advantage of it.
From where I live, this is a little too far for one of those sub-24 hour bike camping trips. It's about 50 miles and quite a bit of climbing for me to get there.
As you can see in the photo below, I don't travel light. That Yakima trailer carries …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/07/07/bike-camping-at-iron-horse-state-park/
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