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If you have a few minutes and feel like commiting an act of bicycle advocacy this weekend, consider sending an email to your state's governor.
The League of American Bicyclists has a form letter that you can easily send word-for-word, or in your own words, that asks your governor to share the upcoming federal funding cutbacks among all transportation programs.
Based on past experiences, the League is concerned that programs that traditionally support pedestrian and bicycle projects will be singled out for the cutbacks …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/08/21/protect-bicycle-projects-in-upcoming-funding-cuts/
There hasn't been much news lately about Frank Marshall's (“Indiana Jones”, “Bourne” series) plans to make a movie about Lance Armstrong's life.
But there's another bicycling movie in the works. Filmmaker and retired bicycle adventurer Kevin Foster says he has a commitment from the Chinese government for funds to produce a film about his own life.
Why make a movie about Kevin Foster, you ask?
Twenty years ago Foster made headlines by becoming the first person, and an American at that, to ride his bicycle over a thousand miles of what was left of the Great Wall of China ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/08/20/great-wall-of-china-bicycle-ride-might-become-a-future-movie/
A high school junior is organizing a charity bicycle ride for this Saturday up in Blaine on the Canadian border to raise funds for a family whose daughter is undergoing treatment for leukemia.
Olivia Sellinger pitched in to help when she heard that Jessica Walters, her 3-year-old neighbor, had been diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia, a cancer of the blood or bone marrow. Sellinger used to babysit for Jessica.
When she heard that Jessica was undergoing chemotherapy at Children's Hospital in Seattle, Sellinger began raising money to help offset the family's medical bills and launched plans for the “Ride for the Warrior Princess” bike ride …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/08/19/charity-bike-ride-in-blaine-wa-raises-funds-for-leukemia-victim/
One of the biggest misconceptions held by members of the motoring public — especially when they relate to bicyclists — is that they own the road because they pay for it.
Not true. Road construction and maintenance is paid for by a myriad of taxes, of which gasoline taxes are only one part. In fact, most cyclists also own cars, so they pay their fair share of gas taxes as well.
One place where motorists won't be making that argument, however, is Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the Ann Arbor Bicycle Touring Society raised funds to help pay for a road repaving on a popular bicycling road ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/08/18/michigan-bicycle-touring-club-raises-money-to-repave-road/
We all know that Seattle is one of the top bicycling cities in the US, usually ranked near the top with the likes of Portland, Boulder and Minneapolis on the lists for “best 10 cities for bicyclists.”
But how do Seattle's neighboring cities rank?
The Cascade Bicycle Club set out to determine that and published its results in a six-page publication — Puget Sound Bicycle Scorecard — released this week.
The top city was Kirkland, followed closely by Redmond and Renton. Bringing up the bottom of the list were Federal Way and Shoreline. ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/08/17/scorecard-evaluates-bicycle-friendliness-of-seattles-neighbors/
I can ride my bike with no handlebars, but I can't write and send a Twitter message while I pedal along.
But Janeen McCrae can.
That's because McCrae rides Precious, a bicycle that's been outfitted with sensors and electronics that enable it to send out Tweets with the push of a button. Actually, McCrae and Precious collaborate on the Twitter messages.
McCrae is riding Precious from coast-to-coast on Adventure Cycling's TransAmerica Bicycle Route to raise money for the Livestrong Foundation ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/08/16/precious-the-bicycle-that-posts-tweets-as-it-travels-cross-country/
Leave it to the guy who's never competed on a mountain bike before to win one of the premier off-road bike races in the U.S.
Levi Leipheimer won the Leadville 100 mountain bike race on Saturday, setting a new course record in the process. His RadioShack teammate and defending champion, Lance Armstrong, didn't race due to injuries sufferd in the Tour de France.
Listening to his comments after the race, it sounds like the 36-year-old left it all out on the 100-mile Rocky Mountain route that ranges between 9,000 and 13,000 feet.
“Twenty miles to go, I didn't care if I was an hour behind or a half an hour ahead, I just wanted to get it done …. It was just torturous. …..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/08/14/leapin-levi-leipheimer-wins-torturous-leadville-100/
A cyclist from the U.K. is riding across the U.S. on a bicycle with three goals in mind: To travel. To share. To inspire.
But Dominic Gill isn't making the journey alone. He's riding from the rear seat of a tandem bicycle that's outfitted so the captain sits in back and the stoker rides and pedals out front.
Gill's passengers are all people whose physical impairments would make it impossible for them to make the trip on their own.
Keith Rogers at the Las Vegas Review Journal writes about one of those passengers, Carlos Terrazas, 22, who has been blind since birth…..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/08/13/helping-others-to-enjoy-bicycle-touring/
Apparently enough Republican voters in Colorado believed in Dan Maes's conspiracy theory regarding bicycling and the U.N. to support his run for governor.
The businessman told an audience last week about his fear that support of pro-bicycling projects, like the Denver B-cycle bike share program, were linked to a United Nations plot that would “threaten our personal freedoms.”
His bicycling comments were roundly ridiculed in the past week, yet he must have touched a nerve. Voters in the Republican primary gave Maes a 1.3% margin over opponent and former congressman Scott McInnis, according to last night's returns …..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/08/11/bicycle-conspiracy-theory-candidate-wins-in-colorado/
A portion of the Cedar River Trail just east of Renton will be closed for repairs Aug. 16 – Sept. 3 as work crews repair damage to the levee from last year's storms.
The section to be closed starts at 154 Place SE and extends to 175 Avenue SE. That's essentially from the undercrossing just east of Ron Regis Park to the Riverbend Mobile & RV Park.
King County says the trail will be closed 24 hours a day and there will be no flagged reroute during construction.
To bypass the trail, bicyclists ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/08/09/cedar-river-trail-closed-two-weeks-in-august/
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