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A week-long bicycle tour that celebrates the common tree and raises money for tree research is rolling into Oregon next year.
It marks only the fourth time that the Tour des Trees bicycle tour has visited the Pacific Northwest. The inaugural ride rolled from Seattle to Oakland in 1992, then started in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in 1997 and Seattle again in 2002.
Next year's Stihl Tour des Trees (Aug. 5-11, 2012) encompasses a 585-mile loop that includes Pacific Coast rain forests and the central high deserts. When they aren't bicycling, tree lovers will be planting trees or offering tree-education programs to kids.
While the warning “On your left!” is a common refrain ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/11/16/tour-des-trees-coming-to-oregon-in-2012-ride-your-bike-plant-a-tree/
The fact that Dejan Zafirov lost one leg and injured the other in a work accident hasn't stopped him from his goal of bicycling around the world.
The Macedonian cyclist rolled into San Francisco on Friday after completing a two-month cross-country ride on his fully loaded bicycle.
He already has toured on his bicycle in South America, Europe, and Asia. His tour across the US was launched to inspire his fellow countrymen and raise money for adaptive sports equipment at home through his Citizens Association Gaia.
Dejan rides his bicycle with a prosthetic right leg to compensate …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/11/15/world-traveling-bicyclist-overcomes-disabilities/
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The Google Street View trike has been hitting the bicycle trails in Seattle and King County over the past summer and now those trail views are available on Google Maps.
I mashed a couple of trails with the TripGeo.com application to animate the bike path views on the Burke-Gilman Trail between Gas Works and Log Boom parks, left, and the Cedar River Trail from Renton to Landsburg, below.
It's fun to see the locales of our off-road rides preserved on the Internet. Seattle Bike Blog located trail views outside the Seattle Google headquarters in Ballard and the Seattle end of the I-90 bike trail….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/11/14/take-a-virtual-bike-ride-on-burke-gilman-and-cedar-river-trails/
Here we are in the second decade of the 21st century, and bicyclists are forced to petition their Senators to retain their legal rights to the road.
The draft Senate transportation authorization bill, perhaps misnamed “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act,” includes a provision that bans bicycle riders from park roads if there is a trail nearby.
What is it with the US Senate and bicycles?
Earlier this fall, two Senators on separate occasions offered amendments that would have removed federal funds for bicycle and pedestrian projects. Those measures …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/11/14/bicyclists-push-back-against-proposed-national-parks-and-forests-rule/
The bicycle continued to be an important fund-raising tool in the fight against cancer in 2011.
Although figures aren't available from the scores of cancer-battling bicycle rides in 2011, three big ones alone raised more than $53 million.
The three — Pan Mass Challenge, Pelotonia, and the Livestrong Challenge series — brought together 19,000 bicycle riders in the fight against cancer. Congratulations to them all.
The Massachusetts-based Pan Mass Challenge continued its dominance as the most successful athletic fund-raising event in the nation …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/11/12/big-3-charity-bike-rides-raise-53-million-to-fight-cancer-in-2011/
Bike MS is hooking up with bike-maker Raleigh in a partnership to provide services for participants of its charity bike rides in 2012.
More than 100,000 folks ride their bicycles in some 100 Bike MS events annually to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Beginning next year, Raleigh USA will support Bike MS in several ways, such as providing education programs, …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/11/09/bike-ms-and-raleigh-form-partnership/
A proposal to raise $204 million for transportation projects over the next 10 years in Seattle, including bicycle infrastructure, failed on Tuesday.
Voters in the city resoundingly defeated the measure that would have required car owners to pay an extra $60 car tab fee per automobile.
Half of the money raised by the issue, Proposition 1, would have paid for …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/11/09/seattle-voters-reject-car-tab-fee-that-included-bike-projects/
If you started bike commuting to work this spring but hung up your wheels when the dark, wet and cold set in this fall, you might be ready to reconsider your decision.
With the proper lights, layered clothing, and rain gear on your bicycle, there's no reason to abandon the bike for a car or bus these days.
Choose Your Way Bellevue is offering a free winter bike commuting class with the experts from Cascade Bicycle Club.
The brown bag presentation is scheduled on Thursday….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/11/08/bike-commuting-into-fall-and-winter-in-bellevue/
Time marches on, pedal stroke by pedal stroke. In a few days, your bicycle calendar will be woefully out of date.
Here are a few suggestions for calendars that you might not mind seeing every day in 2012.
The women's bicycling gang “The Belle Starrs” is entering the calendar madness in 2012 with its “Safety is Sexy: Your 2012 pin-up is a guide to ride.” Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, the bicyclists are raising money for their club as well as a local charity. That's Stacy Schroeder on the cover, with other members featured inside.
Although not as sexy, the Adventure Cycling Association's 2012 Calendar will feed your interest in bicycle touring. The nonprofit used photo entries …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/11/07/12-bicycle-wall-calendars-for-2012-the-sexy-and-sublime/
Since the East Lake Sammamish Trail opened in 2006 with a crushed stone surface, many bicycle riders have said they'd like to see it paved.
Their wishes have been granted, at least on a 1.2-mile section at the north end of the 11-mile rail-trail.
King County Parks says a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. Monday in the new trail side parking lot on NE 70th Street will mark the re-opening of the Redmond section of the East Lake Sammamish Trail.
Paving the southern end of the East Lake Sammamish Trail in Issaquah is the next project on tap …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/11/06/east-lake-sammamish-trail-paving-northern-section-complete/
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