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The Tour de Georgia bike race isn't returning in 2009, but a North Georgia town has a plan to boost tourism using bicycles anyway.
Hotels in the historic town of Alpharetta are offering special packages that enable tourists to have bicycle rental, delivery and pick-up all included in their room rate.
The offer enables visitors to ride the bicycles to attractions around town or head out to ride the scenic Big Creek Greenway bike path.
That bike path runs for 6.2 miles through the Alpharetta area and was recently connected to another 3-mile section in Roswell ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/21/bicycles-delivered-to-hotel-guests-in-north-georgia/
When Mr. McQuire offered Ben Braddock one word of advice — “plastics” — in The Graduate, I'm sure he wasn't talking about bicycles.
But a team of students from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, created a bicycle made from recycled plastic bottles to win the Juicy Ideas contest supported in part by Google.
The four industrial design students from ASU competed against 268 teams from 28 colleges to create something of value in 10 days from a “throwaway” item and post a YouTube video (above) that explained their product.
The winners — Ryan Klinger, of Huntersville, NC; Andrew Drake of Gaithersburg, Md.; Spencer Price of Louisville, Ky.; and Justin Henry of San Diego — will get a trip to Google headquarters in Mountain View …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/20/bicycle-made-from-plastic-bottles-wins-google-sponsored-award/
An old hand at helping Lance Armstrong win championships — he once even gave up his bike to Armstrong — has been named to the Team Astana roster to compete at the Tour Down Under in Australia.
Jose Luis Ruberia, 35, of Spain bicycled with Armstrong on the Postal Service and Discovery pro cycling teams, participating in some of Armstrong's Tour de France championships.
Other teammates Assan Bazayev (Kazakhstan), Steve Morabito (Switzerland) and Maxim Iglinskiy (Kazakhstan) all rode in the 2008 Giro d'Italia. ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/19/astana-names-armstrong-teammates-for-tour-down-under/
If you ask me, a bicycle tour is as good a way as any to commemorate a monumental event.
Ryan Bowen would probably agree, as he's bicycling from Los Angeles to Washington DC to mark the election and inauguration of Barack Obama.
The 22-year-old graduate (shown at left and in the video on the jump) of Occidental College in LA is hoping to interest some other like-minded Obama-supporting bicyclists along the way who might want to join him on the ride into DC.
He told the LA Times that he'd like to have an escort of 50 or more bicyclists by the end of the trip.
“That would be my dream, to roll into Washington with something like that.” …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/19/biking-for-obama-la-to-dc-in-time-for-inauguration/
The first legitimate snowfall in my area got me to thinking about pedal-powered snowplows.
They have lots of advantages, primarily by transforming the act of snow-shoveling into a good workout for your legs instead of a back-breaking chore. Here are three good ones.
As for this one at left, it's effective as well. Kevin Blake (MrPlowKevin), an engineer at Trek, created it for last year's Specialized Innovate or Die contest. He used parts from an old riding lawnmower and old bicycles and two store-bought snow shovels.
The plow didn't win the contest (a water filtration bike did), but it certainly looks like a useful machine …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/18/pedal-powered-snowplows-clear-driveways-and-paths/
The New York City policeman who body-checked the bicyclist in this YouTube video has been charged with filing false statements, assault and harassment charges.
The cop, Patrick Pogan, pleaded not guilty earlier today to all charges.
The original charges Pogan filed against the 29-year-old who he body slammed during a July 25 Critical Mass bike ride in New York City were dropped several months ago. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/16/update-charges-in-youtubes-ny-cop-vs-cm-cyclist-knockdown/
What have you done in the past 100 days? I can't say that anything I've done is as exciting as the bicycle touring adventures by Philippe and Leandra Brient.
The couple from British Columbia set off from France on Sept. 1, and so far have visited 13 countries in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa on their bicycles. (At left they're warming up in Turkey.)
According to their website, Vimax Adventures, the pair have reached Egypt after bicycling across the Sinai Peninsula. It looks like their cyclo-touring will continue after the first of the year.
Philippe and Leandra e-mailed me about their adventures and invited me to check out their website “to give inspiration and information to other cyclists (as others did to us). …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/15/canadian-couple-explore-13-countries-by-bicycle-in-100-days/
A Seattle bicycle rider was killed about 6:30 a.m. Thursday in Renton when a motorist made a left turn in front of him, according to Sheriff's deputies.
The 56-year-old cyclist has not been identified; neither has the 79-year-old Renton man who was driving the car.
No charges have been filed against the driver of the 1997 Lincoln Town Car, although the investigation is continuing …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/13/seattle-bicyclist-struck-and-killed-in-renton-is-identified/
States where “bicycle” is a popular Google search word rank higher in literacy, lower in obesity, and tended to vote for Obama in 2008.
Although this red-blue US map may conjure up flashbacks from the 2008 presidential election, it actually shows states where people most frequently Googled the word “bicycle,” with red being the most, blue the least, and purple in between.
A programmer has taken this application one step further and created StateStats, which links these results with other ways of ranking states, such as with education, obesity and age
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/12/tendencies-of-states-where-people-search-bicycle/
The picture pretty much says it all.
These lovely ladies are featured in a calendar that benefits Bike Works and its earn-a-bike program.
Entitled “Lovely Ladies on Beautiful Bikes,” the calendar features some of the Emerald City's many female cyclists riding their mountain and road bikes around town.
You can order the calendar online at Bike Calendar Girls 2009, or show up at the release party at 8 p.m., Dec. 12, at Conor Byrne Pub, 5140 Ballard Ave., NW, Seattle …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/12/12/seattle-bike-calendar-release-party-is-friday/
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