Category: Bike Touring
Need a lift? An actual bicycle lift in the city of Trondheim, Norway, has provided cyclists with a little boost to the top of a steep hill in the historical part of town since the mid-1990s.
The owner of the bicycle lift, Design Management AS, says it's the only one in the world. Nearly a quarter-million people have used the lift since testing began in 1993, and the rate has increased to 20,000 to 30,000 a year.
About half of the passengers are college students who attend University of Trondheim at the top of the 425-foot-long hill, and 41% of the users say they ride a bicycle more often because of the lift. — Video and
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/16/worlds-only-bicycle-lift-is-in-norway/
If you find that strangers are a little less willing to offer a helping hand on your bicycle tour this summer, you can probably thank David Earl McCarthy.
McCarthy is a 53-year-old registered sex offender from Oregon whose bicycle touring trail has ended in Kentucky, where he was staying with a family on their farm.
The Kentucky family contacted police when they discovered he was cruising Internet pornography sites on their home computer. Authorities checked out his story and discovered he wasn't a retired Coast Guard officer and US Marshal from Alaska, but a sex offender with four convictions, 2 in Oregon and 1 each in North Carolina and Louisiana. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/15/touring-bicyclist-lied-to-hide-his-identity-as-sex-offender/
If you want to ride in Colorado's Iron Horse Bicycle Classic bike race or bike tour this year, then you better sign up soon.
The popular bike race and bike tour through the San Juan Mountains between Durango and Silverton is being limited to 2,500 riders for the May 26-27 event. Organizers say 1,000 have already signed up at a rate 40% ahead of last year.
The decision to limit ridership is based on the safety of riders, the impacts on communities that host the ride, and law enforcement concerns. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/14/iron-horse-bicycle-classic-to-cap-riders-at-2500-triple-bypass-signups-closed/
If you are looking for a cycling event that will lift your spirits as well as your heart rate, check out the “2007 Face of America” ride April 28-29 that honors U.S soldiers severely wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan.
The two-day, 110-mile ride from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, is being sponsored by World T.E.A.M. Sports — T.E.A.M. stands for The Exceptional Athlete Matters — whose mission is to use “the powerful platform of sports to bring together the disabled and able-bodied communities.”
As an able-bodied rider, you will be cycling through the rolling Pennsylvania countryside with disabled athletes, many of whom are soldiers who lost limbs in Iraq or Afghanistan and who will be riding hand-crank bikes and two-wheeled bikes with the aid of prostheses. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/12/2007-face-of-america-bicycle-ride/
In the next couple of days, I'll be joined here by my old friend and cross-country cycling companion Bruce Friedland. You might remember him from the TransAmerica Bike Tour — 1984 series or the recent article about the Cookie House Registry.
Bruce has remained an active cyclist back in Maryland all these years and is riding and filing from …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/11/new-blogger-at-biking-bis/
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Two veterans — one from Vietnam and the other from Desert Storm — are making their way cross-country on bicycle tours to raise funds and awareness of wounded and disabled veterans.
The Bicycle America for Wounded Vets tour begins in San Francisco on June 2, and the Fallen Heroes' Ride Across America left from Florida on March 23 and is already in Mississippi.
Meanwhile, a two-day bike ride fund-raiser — the Face of America Bike Ride — in Pennsylvania and Maryland to assist disabled military members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan is set to start on April 28. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/09/two-vets-make-separate-bike-tours-to-support-wounded-comrades/
This will be the first full year that bicycle tourists can ride the full-length of the 150-mile Great Allegheny Passage between Cumberland, Md., and Pittsburgh.
Connecting with the 186-mile long C&O Canal Towpath between Washington DC and Cumberland, the entire route 336-mile route promises to be a popular destination for bicycling tours this summer, if the Rails-to-Trails' Greenway Sojourn 2007 along the the corridor is any indication.
A group of 12 cyclists from Atlanta recently completed the trip and posted some observations at GAP Yahoo group. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/07/suggestions-for-bicycling-the-great-allegheny-passage/
More than 700 miles of bicycle trails and signed bicycling routes will be open in the Loire Valley and Burgundy regions of France this summer.
Those areas have discovered the benefits of bicycle touring to the local economies. They're promoting cycling in their regions by extending bike routes — 350 miles have been added in the past year — and promoting the trails on websites geared to bicyclists.
The Loire Valley in western France has about 250 miles of bike paths and routes ready this year, with another 250 miles planned for the near future. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/03/new-bicycling-routes-in-france-this-year/
My quest for 4,000 miles in 2007 is not quite on track, but I'm closer to hitting the monthly mileage I need to accomplish that goal.
Once again 14 rides in March. The weather must be improving, as only 5 of those rides were in what I described as “occasional drizzle” to “constant rain.” I even mentioned “sun” three times in my log.
The longest ride was 41 miles. I picked my way through Renton to Tukwilla (about 10 miles from home) where I jumped onto the Green River Trail and headed south. The bronze statue — Slipstream (at left) — is located along the trail in the vicinity of Kent. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/02/tale-of-the-tape-for-march/
A United Nations report says that the world's richest countries, while contributing the most toward global warming, are doing little to curb its effects in the poorer nations that will be hardest hit.
That's hardly news to California bicyclist David Kroodsma, who for the past 17 months has been bicycling through Central and South America to raise awareness about global warming and its impact on the Americas.
His website, Ride for Climate: The Americas, is a primer on the science of global warming and offers first-hand observations of how rising temperatures will affect the poorer nations of Latin America. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/01/bicycle-tour-raises-global-warming-specter-in-latin-america/
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