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Jamie Bianchini has spent the past 8-1/2 years picking up hitch-hikers.
There's no such thing as a free ride with Bianchini, however. His passengers on six continents have taken the stoker position on his tandem bicycle and helped pedal as he passed through many different cultures.
The Pacific Beach, California man ended his travels this weekend when he returned home after passing through 81 countries on the 25,000-mile around-the-world bike tour dubbed Peace Pedalers.
Along the way, Bianchini launched more than a dozen projects …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/25/peace-pedaler-finishes-tandem-journey-around-the-world/
World AIDS Day is Wednesday, Dec. 1, marking the 30th year of the pandemic. It's not a happy anniversary.
To commemorate this milestone, bicyclists in San Francisco and Los Angeles are holding World AIDS Day bike rides on Sunday.
Participants are asked to wear red. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/25/world-aids-day-bike-rides-are-sunday/
New York City announced plans Tuesday morning to create a bike-sharing system to take a bite out of traffic congestion in the Big Apple.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration said it will seek bids for a bike-sharing program based on last year's feasibility study “Bike-Share Opportunities in New York City” that called for starting with 10,000 bicycle at 600 locations. That plan starts with bike share in Manhattan, then spreads to boroughs throughout the city.
Although bike-sharing systems are already in use in Denver, Minneapolis and Washington DC/Arlington, the installation of bicycle-sharing in that huge media market would bring more attention to the potential success of such systems …..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/23/new-york-city-next-in-line-for-bike-sharing/
In a few years, you'll be able to get your bike touring kicks on Route 66.
The Adventure Cycling Association says it has chosen the corridor of that iconic American highway as its next long-distance bicycle touring route.
Known as the Mother Road, “it winds from Chicago to LA, more than 2,000 miles all the way” …. OK, maybe you already know the lyrics of the song.
The two-lane highway was established more than 80 years ago as one of the original U.S. highways. Decommissioned in the 1980s, it remains a part of our popular culture.
Chalk that up to the road's prominent role …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/22/work-begins-on-new-adventure-cycling-route-bicycle-route-66/
The latest week-long state bicycle tour to announce its route is the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure, celebrating its 23rd year.
The 2011 route keeps to the largely flat countryside to the north and west of Columbus, offering a respite for those who might have struggled through the Appalachian foothills of southeastern Ohio in the 2010 GOBA.
With 5 days of bicycling and 2 layover days with optional riding, GOBA covers between 259 and 416 miles of road next year from June 18-25.
The loop route starts in Kenton….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/22/goba-announces-2011-bicycle-tour-route-through-ohio/
A Washington-based bicycle component manufacturer is recalling 9,300 bicycles that were outfitted with a faulty crankset that can break, causing falls and injuries.
The recall involves 21 different bicycle models from 8 bicycle brands (see list on jump) that were sold between February and October this year.
The US Consumer Protection Agency urges owners of the listed bicycles to stop using them immediately and take them back to the dealer for inspection and free replacement of the faulty crankarm. Eleven breaks have been reported, and two injuries …..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/21/widespread-bicycle-recall-due-to-faulty-crank/
Thirty bicyclists rolled up to the Rainier Valley Food Bank in Seattle on Saturday afternoon with their backpacks, trailers and panniers loaded with hundreds of food items.
Their arrival marked the finish of Seattle's Cranksgiving food drive, an inaugural event here that has to be judged a huge success.
Not two weeks ago, Seattle Bike Blog editor Tom Fucoloro had read about a dozen Cranksgiving bike-ride food-drives across the nation and was disappointed there was nothing in Seattle. Although he had never sponsored a bike ride before, he decided to start a Cranksgiving in Seattle …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/21/seattle-cyclists-spin-through-town-for-cranksgiving-food-drive/
By most accounts, the Greenbelt trail that runs along the north side of the Boise River in Garden City was conceived as a bicycle path.
Now a group of Idaho bicyclists has gone to court to regain their rights to ride their bikes on a 1.5-mile section of the trail that has been marked as a dismount zone in Garden City for about 3 years.
As you can see from a regional trail map, the Greenbelt is part of a network of paths running in fits and starts along both sides of the river in Eagle, Garden City and Boise. But walking your bike for a mile-and-a-half is like having no trail at all, especially for those who need it for commuting ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/20/bicyclists-sue-over-bike-path-dismount-zone-in-idaho-city/
Bicycle shops are sometimes family affairs, but only one has been in the same family for more than 150 years.
Pearson Cycles can trace its history back to 1860 when the business first opened as a blacksmith shop in Sutton, a small town south of London. It's still in the same location, and the structure of the building remains virtually unchanged.
The family says it's the oldest bike shop in the world, and it's difficult to dispute that claim.
Currently, the bike shop is owned and operated by the fifth generation of Pearsons — Guy, 42, and William, 40 — to work with bicycles at that store. Interviewed recently by the UK's Guardian newspaper, Guy succinctly explained how the business has lasted so long ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/19/happy-birthday-to-worlds-oldest-bicycle-shop/
The new Danny MacAskill bike freestyle film looks like your typical Scotland tourism video until the 34-second mark when he does an aerial front flip off a wall at Edinburgh Castle.
Yikes!
After MacAskill's original video went ballistic on YouTube about two years ago (it currently has 21.5 million views), his new sponsors at Red Bull asked him to make another video around his hometown of Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye.
The video, released Tuesday, already had over 200,000 views by Wednesday night ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/18/danny-macaskill-is-at-it-again-freestyle-bike-stunts-from-scotland/
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