Category: Bike Touring
Instead of complaining about all the trash along a section of a bike path, members of the Mid-Valley Bicycle Club in Corvallis, Oregon, are taking matters into their own hands.
Ten cyclists met at the bike path along 99W, and in little more than an hour had picked up 20 large garbage bags of crap from along the one-mile stretch. Among the items they found was a stripped down bicycle frame, which they're considering upgrading into a new bike.
Good deeds like these aren't isolated to Corvallis. Bicycling groups all over are joining “Adopt-a-trail” campaigns in communities to keep their trails clean ……
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/28/tired-of-trail-side-trash-adopt-a-bike-trail/
A bike ride among some friends along the 57-mile New River State Park trail in Virginia ended in tragedy recently when a rock slab broke loose from an overhang and killed a cyclist.
Park officials say the rock fall “appears to have been an isolated natural act.” It's the second time since the abandoned railroad bed was converted to a trail that someone has been killed by a falling rock.
According to reports, Sudie Jenkins Hatcher, 48, from High Point, N.C., was riding with friends in the Austinville area of the trail on Oct. 20. A slab from a rock overhang broke loose, rolled down a hill before it tumbled through the air and struck Hatcher …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/28/falling-rock-slab-kills-cyclist-on-virginia-bike-trail/
Every year the organizers of the Tour de France choose an actual Tour stage for a “recreational ride” that allows cycling enthusiasts to test out their bicycling chops.
It's called L'Étape du Tour Mondovélo, and in 2008 it's scheduled to roll out Sunday, July 6, over the Stage 10 route from Pau to Hautacam.
This is like no ride along the bike path at the local park. This year's l'etape is a 102-mile ride in the Pyrenees over the Col de Tourmalet and finishing at the Hautacam ski resort…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/27/2008-letape-du-tour-bike-ride-for-citizen-bicyclists/
Nearly 2 dozen Southern California wildfires that have destroyed more than half a million acres of vegetation caused so much smoke that bicycling in the area this weekend definitely wouldn't be a healthy exercise.
Orange County-based Cycling Dude blogger Kiril Kundurazieff writes about the hazards and public health warnings that are being issued at “Where there's Smoke, There's Fire: Should You Ride?” He concludes that he'll forego the bike and stick to mass transit.
The Orange County Wheelmen have postponed this weekend's popular Fall Metric Century to Nov. 3 due to the smoky conditions…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/26/erase-socal-cycling-from-your-calendar-this-weekend/
Two bicyclists — Lee Anne Barry (left) and Thomas Hoskins — were killed in South Carolina on Sunday when they were struck by an SUV as they were bicycling the final leg of a cross-country ride.
This was the fourth cross-country bicycle tour for Barry. She had survived a coma as a youth and later founded the Brain Injury Greatest Journey (B.I.G. Ride) to raise awareness that people with brain injuries can continue to live life in a meaningful way.
The 43-year-old North Carolina resident certainly demonstrated to the very end that she could live a full life and give meaning to the lives of others ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/23/two-on-charity-bicycle-ride-killed-in-south-carolina/
When two life-long friends finished their cross-country bicycle tour last month, they could look back and honestly say they had left their mark on the route behind them.
Steve Cash and Ben Kelchlin didn't leave behind graffiti or trail blazes, though. They planted trees.
The pair planted 103 trees on their meandering 5,391-mile bike tour from Eastport, Maine, to Neah Bay, Washington. They planted trees in parks, elementary schools, and the yards of strangers who showed them kindness on the road…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/22/cross-country-bicycle-tour-helps-to-green-america/
Piece by piece, the proposed 3,000-mile East Coast Greenway bike trail is coming together.
The latest section to be designated for the Maine to Florida bicycle route is about 11 miles of the Bronx River Trail (about half is complete) between White Plains and the Bronx. The unfinished portions are in the planning stages.
When complete, the East Coast Greenway will stretch from Calais, Maine, to Key West, Florida, with the ultimate goal of being off-road and traffic-free. About 21 percent of the trail is open to public use…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/19/another-link-added-to-the-east-coast-greenway-bike-trail/
The family of a 15-year-old Rachel Giblin who died in a fund-raising bike tour in South Carolina in 2006 is suing the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
The lawsuit alleges that ride organizers promised traffic control and police protection that didn't materialize, and they routed part of the ride along a stretch of narrow and busy highway that was unsafe for bicyclists.
The Breakaway to the Beach bike tour is just one of about 100 MS fund-raiser bicycle rides in 48 states. Those bike rides raised $67 million in 2006 to help people suffering from multiple sclerosis. ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/15/family-sues-ms-society-over-fatality-during-2006-bicycle-tour/
About a month ago I wrote about a Georgia firefighter who planned to ride his bicycle cross-country to raise money for the families of the “Charleston 9,” nine South Carolina firefighters who died battling a blaze.
The cyclist, Laddie Williams, finished up the ride over the weekend. He shared the 2,600 road miles between Palm Springs, California, and Charleston with his sidekick, Scott Rousseau of Outspokin' Bicycles. The 120-mile-a-day pace included many obstacles, including an accident with a hit-and-run driver close to home. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/14/cross-country-bike-ride-for-charleston-9-ends/
The National Park Service is suspending commercial downhill bicycle tours of the Haleakala volcano on Maui for 60 days as it studies ways to make them more safe.
A series of fatalities and injuries on the tours prompted the park service action. Cyclists coasting downhill have crossed the centerline and run into oncoming traffic, as well as missed one of the many switchbacks on the 38-mile winding route to the bottom.
Typically, tourists pay $100 to $150 for a van ride to the parking lot at about the 10,000-foot elevation of the dormant volcano. There they mount their rented bicycles and coast down the road …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/12/downhill-bike-tours-suspended-in-hawaiis-haleakala-park/
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