Joe Bowen is taking a breather in his meandering cross-country bicycle tour.
The retired contractor is recreating a 14,000-mile bicycle tour he started in 1967 from Lompoc, California, to his home and reporting his experiences back to school kids in eastern Kentucky.
After meeting former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in south Georgia, Bowen commented: “I'm out here riding my bicycle, but Someone else is writing …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/24/cyclist-joe-bowen-makes-it-home-for-thanksgiving/
One day in 2001, Alistair Humphreys jumped on his bicycle, pedalled up the hill, around the corner and out of sight. He wouldn't return for four years.
During that time the 28-year-old covered 50,000 miles, passing through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and North and South America on his 'round-the-world bike trip.
As bike tours go, he knew this would be …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/23/englishman-finishes-around-the-world-bike-tour/
As a certified diabetes educator nurse, Montana cycling tourist Mary Madison teaches that regular exercise leads to good health.
The 70-year-old cyclist had plenty of opportunity to put that message into practice as she bicycled 4,500 miles from Montana to Maine this summer and fall.
The Sidney (Montana) Herald reports Madison biked 95 days during the four-and-a-half months. The rest …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/19/diabetes-nurse-finishes-cross-country-bike-tour/
Biking Bis contains a lot of bicycling related news, but its main thrust is bicycle touring.
Some of my favorite cycling days occurred on week-long rides in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington state — CAM Tour, Bike Virginia, and RAW. So when I started the blog last winter, I listed all the week-long bicycle rides I could find …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/15/mark-your-2006-calendar-for-week-long-bike-rides/
Tom Ridgeway is back in the saddle again, cycling cross-country for a cause.
The 45-year-old Lancaster, Pennsylvania, cyclist has been involved in long-range bicycling fund-raisers and awareness-raising events since 1993. That's the year he began circling the US in a 13,000-mile bike ride to raise awareness about AIDS.
Right now he's scheduled to be wrapping up an approximately 2,000-mile bike …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/14/on-the-road-again-mike-ridgeway-cycling-to-arizona/
David Kroodsma is a cyclist who is preaching what he practices.
The climate researcher at Stanford plans to spend the next year and a half on his bicycle, touring down the Pacific Coast from California to the tip of Argentina.
Along the way, he plans to talk to other scientists, school students, and anyone else he encounters about global warming and how the …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/10/california-cyclist-warns-about-climate-change-through-americas/
It was a rare sunny day in the Pacific Northwest last Friday when I jumped on my bike for a one-hour spin out one of my favorite semi-rural roads.
Good ride: Head down, facing a head wind, I catch some quick movement off to my right along Coal Creek Parkway. I'm surprised by a 3-point buck standing not 5 feet away …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/03/afternoon-cycling-good-ride-bad-ride/
The Tour d'Afrique is one of those bicycle tours that has established a Guinness World Record — fastest human-powered crossing of Africa.
That was in 2003 when nine cyclists competed as racers in the tour to set the record from Luxor, Egypt, to Cape Town, South Africa.
So far, 51 cyclists have signed up to take part in the 2006 edition …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/02/bike-tour-spans-the-length-of-africa/
Every year, the Tour de France organizers pick a stage in which ordinary cyclists can ride the exact route as the pros. It's called the L'Etape du Tour.
On July 10, 2006, the definition of “ordinary cyclist” means anyone willing to attempt the grueling 116-mile ride from Gap to the summit of L'Alpe d'Huez, the legendary climb with 21 switchbacks….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/27/letape-du-tour-the-day-ordinary-cyclists-ride-a-tour-stage/
A memorial bike ride is planned next month for Tom Cuthbertson, the guy who took a lot of us nonmechanical types by the hand and walked us through basic bicycle maintenance and repair.
He actually didn't stand there and help, offering advice as he looked over our shoulders. He patiently helped us from the pages of his wonderful repair manual, “Anybody's Bike Book.” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/25/memorial-bike-ride-planned-for-tom-cuthbertson/
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