Category: Bike Touring
Virginia has printed up a bicycle touring map for the state that includes major cross-state bike routes totalling some 800 miles, as well as a half dozen or more rail-to-trail bike paths and off-road mountain biking areas.
Bicycling in Virginia is also available online in two .pdf downloads at “full map” and the reverse “trail side.”
One of the main features of the map are the two US bicycle routes that criss-cross the state. Route 1 runs north-south about from the DC suburbs, through Richmond and into southern Virginia. The east-west Route 76 essentially follows the old Bikecentennial (Trans-America) trail …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/12/02/bicycling-in-virginia-map/
BRAG. GOBA. RABGRAI. TRIRI. RAW. What the heck is this, alphabet soup? No, it's a very short list of some of the across-state bicycle tours that already have ride dates scheduled for 2007.
I spent some time vicariously bicycling across several states last night as I updated some of my listings at Across State Bicycle Tours. I read about bike tours that skirted mighty rivers, summited mountain passes and crossed deserts. Quite a few already have dates set and some are already taking registrations.
For instance, I learned that the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure (GOBA) is called “Bike Me to the Moon” this year, and that Oklahoma Freewheel …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/11/30/across-state-bicycle-tours-setting-dates-for-2007/
Can you imagine riding your bicycle in the future along this corridor where these railroad tracks run today? I can.
This is a very short stretch of a 47-mile railroad right-of-way that runs north-south about two miles from my home in the growing communities just east of Seattle.
The current owner, the BNSF Railway, wants to sell the 100-foot right-of-way. A deal currently in the works calls for the Port of Seattle to buy it for $100 million to $180 million and turn it over to King County along with the funds to build a bike and hike trail on it. In return, the Port gets the King County-owned 625-acre airfield just south of Seattle.
If the land swap deal happens — we'll probably know next year — the old rail line could become the backbone for a network of existing bike trails. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/11/28/how-a-rail-line-might-become-a-major-bike-trail-in-washington-state/
Where would you go to bike the world's most dangerous road?
You might have your own local candidates for the distinction, but on a global basis it's the Unduavi-Yolosa Highway in the mountains near La Paz, Bolivia.
That's not me saying so. The Inter-American Development Bank judged this the World's Most Dangerous Road in 1995 based on the number of deaths per mile.
And the designation doesn't mean bicyclists avoid it. In fact, at least two La Paz-based bike touring companies …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/11/27/bicycling-the-worlds-most-dangerous-road/
A family's lawsuit stemming from the death of a bicycle rider in the 2004 RAGBRAI is scheduled to go to trial in October 2007.
Betty Jo Ullrich and her daughters are suing Crawford County due to negligence in the death of Kirk Ullrich, 49, who died after his bicycle tire hit a crack in the road pavement and he fell.
The accident happened on July 25, 2004 …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/11/26/ragbrai-fatality-lawsuit-scheduled-for-trial/
It's early summer Down Under, where Australia's version of RAGBRAI began Saturday with 3,500 bicyclists leaving Wangaratta for the 534-km (331-mile) bike ride to Melbourne.
The Great Victorian Bike Ride has been running every year since 1984 with as few as 1,900 bicyclists in 1985 to as many as 8,100 for the “Great Ocean Road” in 2004.
This year's bike ride leaves from Wangaratta …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/11/25/2006-great-victorian-bike-ride-gets-under-way/
The organizer of the annual Celebration of Life bicycle ride in Virginia Beach says he's cancelling the event next year because the city's streets are getting too congested for the 1,000-or so participants.
What's ironic is that Virginia Beach received an “honorable mention” on the list of Bicycle Friendly communities by the League of American Bicyclists. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/11/25/safety-issues-cancel-celebration-of-life-bike-ride/
Anyone who bicycles regularly this time of year should be thinking seriously about bike lights. James Sharp at the Lactic Acid Threshold blog admits to thinking a lot about lights. He writes:
“I love lights, in an unhealthy way. I think it is the combination of the fact that they enable me to ride more and the fact that they are packed with technological goodness — two of my favorite things.”
Sharp is a reviewer of GearReview.com, so he knows what to look for in light systems for bicycles. He likes the LEDs for the whiter light …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/11/22/throwing-some-light-on-bike-riding-at-night/
While doping charges cloud his future in cycling, Floyd Landis visited the El Tour de Tucson bike ride that drew 8,125 participants this year.
Landis helped start the event on Saturday, watched from a scaffold, and talked with some of his supporters. He didn't participate in the 109-mile ride itself, although he has ridden in past years and actually won the race on a tandem in 1997.
The tandem's pilot that year was Dr. Arnie Baker, Landis' personal physician, who expanded on the cyclist's doping defenses …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/11/20/floyd-landis-returns-to-el-tour-de-tucson/
Keith Larsen and Rich Gardunia, left, are nearing the end of their cross-continental bicycle tour to raise money for cystic fibrosis, which has stricken several of Larsen's relatives.
The pair started from Dead Horse, Alaska, 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle, with a third person, Sarah Wagstaff. Their destination is Key West, Florida.
A reporter for an eastern Texas newspaper recently interviewed the two, who said their favorites states so far were Oregon for the trees and waterfalls …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/11/18/6000-mile-bike-tour-for-cystic-fibrosis/
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