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The group that published the TransAmerica Bicycle Route maps more than 30 years ago is launching a map program for day-trip loops off its Underground Railroad Bicycle Route.
The first one — Freedom's Landing, Ripley, Ohio — is available free online at the Adventure Cycling Association website and in area bike stores and tourist stops.
In addition to being a great resource for recreational bicycle riders, the day-trip program encourages local bike clubs or other groups along the Underground Railroad Bicycle Route to create their own maps that Adventure Cycling will promote and post on its website….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/10/adventure-cycling-offers-one-day-bike-tour-maps/
It's good to know that Mark Blum's Mission With Bikes did not fade away when he died in October.
Members of several churches in Ventura County, California, have stepped forward to continue repairing and finding worthwhile homes for the donated bicycles.
Blum founded Mission With Bikes in 1996 and had repaired and given away some 3,000 bicycles worldwide by the time he died at age 54 from complications from multiple sclerosis …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/10/california-bike-charity-continues-after-founders-death/
While Washington and New Jersey became the first states to prohibit motorists from text messaging, Japan will enforce similar laws in 2008 — for bike riders.
The ban on text-messaging while riding a bicycle is just one of the new laws enacted for 2008 to make bicycle-riding safer in Japan. Others rules include a ban on triple-riding (an adult hauling two kids by bicycle), riding while holding an umbrella or talking on a cellphone, or listening to music with headphones.
Also to be discouraged — and this is just plain confounding — is constantly ringing a bicycle bell on a footpath. Doesn't just about every hike-bike trail in the US suggest that bicyclists use a bell?
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/09/crackdown-on-bad-bicycling-in-japan/
Pacific Cycles is recalling three brands of trailer bikes because bad welds on the couplers can cause the trailer to disconnect from the bicycle.
The recall of the 7,000 trailers, in conjunction with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, covers the InStep “Pathfinder”(pictured at left), Schwinn “Run About,” and Mongoose “Alley Cat” Trailer Bicycles.
Pacific Cycles said one coupler failure has been reported, resulting in an injury to the rider. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/08/pacific-cycles-recalls-7000-trailer-bikes/
It took six years and $800,000, but bicyclists who get bumped from crowded Caltrains cars in San Francisco now have a secure place to leave their bikes.
The bicycle valet parking has been in operation at Fourth and Townsend streets since July, but Wednesday is the official grand opening for the facility. It can handle 130 bicycles; about 70 to 80 bicyclists have used the facility daily the past few months.
The Caltrains facility is the fourth bike station in San Francisco Bay Area. The other three are operated by the unaffiliated BikeStation and are located at the Embarcadero BART in San Francisco, the downtown Berkeley BART on Shattuck, and the Caltrains depot in Palo Alto on University Avenue…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/08/free-valet-parking-for-san-franciscos-caltrain-bicyclists/
Let's hope you weren't standing at a bus stop with your trusty bicycle Monday morning and discovered you had no place to mount it on the bus.
King County Metro (Seattle) determined that its three-bike carrier racks aren't secure and tried swapping them out with two-bike carriers over the weekend. Unfortunately, the other carriers are in short supply and buses on more than a dozen routes ran without the racks.
The following routes don't have bicycle racks, which will be replaced as they become available: Routes 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 12, 13, 14, 49 and 70, and some trips on routes 7, 36, 43 and 44.
Metro uses bicycle racks manufactured by Sportworks in Woodinville, Washington. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/07/king-county-metro-swaps-out-faulty-bike-racks-on-buses/
One of the best bicycle travel writers around, Willie Weir, lives right here in Seattle. The Cascade Bicycle Club is sponsoring his talk “A Tale of Twos: Cycling Thailand and Laos with Willie Weir” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the downtown REI.
If you're unfamiliar with Weir, here are a couple of YouTube videos (7 minutes above and 5 minutes on the jump) he shot. You might enjoy his common-sense approach to bicycle touring as he shows some images from the road and gives out some free travel tips regarding bicycles, tools and touring styles.
First he says that touring bicyclists must first decide the type of trip they're planning — either physical or cultural. He explains that you won't be able to soak up much local color if you're trying to knock out 100 miles a day …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/06/six-bicycle-touring-tips-from-willie-weir/
Those of us who frequently ride our bicycles along the east side of the Lake Washington bike route have been watching the construction at the Seattle Seahawks training facility on a lakefront tract in Renton.
Here you can see a bicyclist pedaling past the indoor practice facility on Friday. The building under construction is as big as a football field and tall enough to contain the highest of punts.
This little-used stretch of road will certainly get more traffic when the facility opens in the summer of 2008. A couple of waterfront industries made their homes here, but traffic was minimal. Cyclists are going to have to pay greater heed when they enter the road from a nearby bike path, especially as there will be accommodations for some 3,000 fans during training camps…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/05/watching-the-seahawks-training-camp-grow/
Did you make New Year's resolutions to not procrastinate and to get healthy by riding your bike? Then you should have taken some time on New Year's Day to register for this year's Ride Around Washington.
The 10th annual bike tour might be the first of nearly 100 such week-long supported bicycle tours in the US to already reach its rider limit.
If you want to participate in one of these across-state bicycle tours this year, I'd recommend visiting the 2008 Across State Bicycle Tour index this weekend, following the links for your favorite choices, and making reservations…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/04/2008-ride-around-washington-is-already-sold-out/
Results of a year-long hospital emergency-room survey in Austin find that bicyclists are 65% to 88% less likely to get a head injury if they're wearing a helmet while riding a bicycle.
The full report from 7 area hospitals run by Brackenridge Hospital and St. David's HealthCare will be issued in a couple of weeks.
The study was designed to put some hard information into the debate that ensued when a mandatory helmet law for adults was put before the Austin City Council. Opponents charged, among other things, that the law diverts attention away from the need for bicycle lanes and more training for cyclists and motorists…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/04/austin-bicycle-helmet-study-completed/
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