Lance Armstrong is keeping RAGBRAI in his schedule, although he's only riding “all or part” of one day — July 27.
On his arrival day, July 26, he'll speak at a celebration in the town square of Newton, the host city for RAGBRAI that night. The Des Moines Register says up to 30,000 people are expected.
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/07/11/dates-announced-for-armstrongs-ragbrai-ride/
Riding in an organized bicycle tour means lots of camaraderie, prepared meals, luggage and maintenance services waiting at the end of the day, even police motorcycle escorts at times.
Just don't let down your guard about the dangers posed by motor vehicles. Three cyclists on group bicycle tours — two in Colorado — have died in collisions with motor vehicles in the past few weeks …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/07/07/three-fatalities-on-organized-bike-tours-in-colorado-and-washington/
Lance Armstrong won't be cycling shoulder-to-shoulder with members of the Tour de France peloton in July; he'll be crunched in a mass of more than 8,000 RAGBRAI cyclists.
The retired Tour de France champion has confirmed he'll ride in one or more days of the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa that runs July 23-29. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/29/forget-tour-de-france-armstrong-to-ride-ragbrai/
Forty-five bike trails in 36 months. That's the goal for New Orleans bicyclist Larry Lagarde.
Lagarde plans to ride these bicycle trails, review them and tell about his adventures at his website RideThisBike.com.
Right now, Lagarde has links to more than 40 bike trails worldwide at his website. His personal bike tour will enable him to add his own perspective on the bike trails and routes. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/27/follow-that-dream-and-bike-trail/
You can always leave that heavy tent and sleeping bag at home on your next bicycle tour if you don't mind parting with some cash. Many bed and breakfast inns are promoting themselves to bicycle tourists as they offer secure bike storage, big breakfasts, laundry facilities and bike trail maps.
I had assumed that most innkeepers would get their knickers in a bunch if I dragged my bike onto the porch and marched into the lobby dripping with sweat, my clothes streaked with chain grease.
That apparently isn't the case for 101 inns …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/25/bed-and-breakfast-inns-that-cater-to-bicycle-touring/
Bill Cook's blog of his upcoming bicycle tour looks like it could be a good read.
Cook is a retired journalist who is leaving Thursday on a 7-week TransAmerica bike tour with 40 other cyclists. At 70, he's the second oldest on the trip; another fella is 73. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/22/70-year-old-begins-cross-country-bike-tour/
The female duo Ditty Bops currently making their way cross-country by bicycle isn't the first band smitten by the bicycling bug.
A love of the bicycle caused German band Kraftwerk to whither creatively for 17 year before reuniting a couple of years ago to create Tour de France Soundtracks.
The love of bikes and cycling has united the Ditty Bops for their road trip. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/20/bicycle-crazy-bands-ditty-bops-and-kraftwerk-couldnt-be-more-different/
It looks like all the leading Tour de France contenders are having their way with different bicycle races. Floyd Landis, Ivan Basso, and Levi Leipheimer each have dominated at one or more contests this spring.
Now it's Jan Ullrich's turn in the Tour de Suisse, his final tune up for the Tour de France beginning July 1. After struggling toward the end of the Giro d'Italia in May, Ullrich has been pressing on the climbs. He's come up short of stage victories, but he gained third place overall on Thursday and held that on Friday. (Updated Saturday, June 17) …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/16/jan-ullrich-sitting-pretty-in-tour-de-suisse/
Joe Bowen, a very fit Kentucky cyclist, pedaled off on a 14,000-mile bicycle tour last spring to visit nearly every state in the US — a second time.
Bowen was repeating a bicycle trek he took upon his discharge from the Air Force in 1967 when he left Lompoc, California, and bicycled through 46 states before returning home to eastern Kentucky.
Now, at 63, Bowen is returning home again …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/14/joe-bowen-ending-14000-mile-around-america-bicycle-tour/
There's a lot of bad mojo in bicycle touring, even if you're riding in the best of the supported cross-state week-long bike rides.
Yesterday I wrote about some avoidable, and unavoidable, bad things that can mar an otherwise idyllic bicycle ride. Here are some more problems that might arise, and how to prevent or deal with them.
1. Help! My luggage is lost!
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/13/more-bad-things-that-can-happen-on-good-bike-tours/
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