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Cyclists who really want to test their abilities against the pros can tackle the L'Etape du Tour, which will route them over 4 climbs on their way to a finish atop Mount Ventoux.
L'Etape du Tour, celebrating its 17th year, is a “recreational” bicycle ride that usually follows the most difficult stage of that year's Tour de France.
In 2009 that's the stage that ends on Mount Ventoux. The L'Etape cyclists will make the 107-mile bike ride on July 20, about five days before it becomes the penultimate stage of the Tour de France …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/10/22/2009-letape-du-tour-lets-amateurs-suffer-on-mont-ventoux/
Only if you live in Washington state, do you have to worry about how to vote on a ballot initiative to change the hours for HOV lanes, whether to support a tax levy for parks and a long-term plan for mass transit in the Puget Sound.
Before you mark your ballot, you might want to check the endorsements from the Cascade Bicycle Club on these issues if you're not sure how to vote. The club also endorses some legislative races in the Puget Sound.
A “No” vote on Initiative 985 is being recommended by Cascade …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/10/21/bicycle-club-endorses-ballot-initiatives-candidates-in-puget-sound/
Citing a “build it and they will come” strategy, the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy issued a report promoting more federal funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects.
The report — “Active Transportation for America: The Case for Increased Federal Investment in Bicycling and Walking” — makes the case that spending more on bicycling and pedestrian facilities would provide benefits to Americans far beyond the amount that was invested.
The Conservancy is seeking $2 billion in alternative transportation funding for 40 communities.
Encouraging people out of their cars would reduce the need to spend billions on highway improvements to deal with traffic congestion. It will also cut oil dependency as well as curtail greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the nationwide obesity problem …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/10/21/making-the-case-for-bicycling-and-walking/
Nearly 200 years ago, many towns began springing up along the Mississippi River shoreline to play host to the flatboats and steamboats that brought commerce up and down the great waterway.
Today, Bob Robinson says those towns can cater to touring bicyclists who pass through on the backroads and bicycle paths that make up the 3,000-mile Mississippi River Trail.
Robinson is a bicyclist from Fort Smith, Arkansas, who has just written and published the definitive guidebook — Bicycling Guide to the Mississippi River Trail — for bike travelers wanting to explore this historic route.
Chosen as one of the 16 National Millennium Trails in 2000 for reflecting a defining aspect of America's culture, the Mississippi River Trail (MRT) is in the same league with the Underground Railroad Trail, the Appalachian Trail, and the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/10/20/mississippi-river-trail-revealed-in-bicycling-guidebook/
Twenty-three bicyclists whose lives have been touched by cancer will set off from Greenville, South Carolina, on Sunday to ride the 1,500 miles to Austin by Thursday.
The cyclists are on five teams that will ride relay-style with the help of 16 support personnel. Together they've raised $160,000 for cancer research.
Once they get to Austin, they'll register for the Ride for the Roses LiveStrong Challenge on Oct. 24-25.
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/10/19/riding-their-bikes-to-the-ride-for-the-roses/
Two sons and a daughter are riding the final leg of a bicycle tour their father didn't finish a year ago when he was one of two people struck and killed near the end of the ride.
The event this Sunday, called “Finish the Ride,” memorializes the final day of Lee Anne Barry's cross-country bicycle tour for brain injury awareness, the Brain Injury Greatest Journey (B.I.G. Ride). Barry and a riding companion for the day, Tom Hoskins, were struck and killed by a motorist just miles from her home in Waxhaw, North Carolina, where the tour was to end.
Rob, Ryan and Becca Hoskins are participating in Finish the Ride to support their father's desire to raise awareness about head injuries. The ride rolls out from Columbia, South Carolina, and ends in Waxhaw, North Carolina …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/10/17/finish-the-ride-completes-bicycle-tour-that-ended-tragically/
A grassroots effort is underway to organize a mass cross-country bicycle tour next summer to promote a clean energy economy for the United States.
The bike tours — collectively dubbed The Trek to Re-Energize America — will leave from different points around the US and converge on Washington DC in late July or early August.
The cyclists will promote their cause as they head down the road. Once they reach the Capitol, they'll contact their congressmen and lobby for action on legislation that fights climate change. According to the website:
“A massive number of organized passionate people who have biked across the United States for something they believe strongly in will make for a statement that politicians and media will be unable to ignore.” …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/10/16/re-energizing-america-from-a-bicycle-saddle/
A judge sentenced a Colorado boy to two years — the maximum under juvenile law — at a Colorado juvenile prison in the hit-and-run death of a touring bicyclist last summer.
Illinois bicyclist Dave Tomlinson was taking part in a group bicycle ride through Colorado last July when he was struck from behind by an SUV on Route 550 near Colona, between Montrose and Ouray. He was thrown more than 100 feet by the impact.
None of the other members of the 20-member chartered bike tour saw the collision, but witnesses immediately reported the crash. The 14-year-old youth was apprehended at a Montrose parking lot …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/10/15/youth-gets-2-years-in-colorado-hit-and-run-that-killed-bicyclist/
The Interior Department is working on a rule change that would make it quicker and easier to designate trails for mountain bike use in national parks and other public lands.
An environmental group is calling it a “lame duck gift for our Mountain-Biker-in-Chief,” while mountain bike supporters call it a way to energize the national parks.
The rule change would allow decisions about mountain bike trails in parks to be made at the superintendent level, instead of run up the bureaucracy to headquarters with requirements for a public review period.
Prohibited
Currently, mountain biking is prohibited in national parks except on park roads and routes specifically designated for mountain bike use …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/10/15/bushs-legacy-deregulation-of-mountain-biking-in-national-parks/
Remember those real estate agents who took prospects on housing tours by bicycle?
The developers of a swank new housing development in Manhattan (211 Elizabeth) are going them one better by supplying bicycles to purchasers of their one- and two-bedroom condominiums.
The bicycle is made by A Black Bike, a Dutch bicycle company based in New York City. They look like the stylish workhorses I've seen in photos from Amsterdam …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/10/14/buy-a-condo-get-a-bicycle/
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