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Today marks the second-year anniversary for the Biking Bis blog.
This thing got started when I filed a short piece about my birthday bike ride. The website was called Bikin' Bis then; I changed the name because most of my hits came from google searches for “bikini.”
I quickly figured out that people probably didn't want to read about my bike rides, so I thought about other themes for a bicycling blog. I finally hit on the idea of focusing on general bicycling news in the blog, so that readers taking a break during a recreational ride could say …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/04/another-year-in-the-saddle/
More week-long bike tours are updated at my Across State Bicycle Tour page.
While checking the dates and routes, I unearthed the minor news that Bicycle Idaho has been scrubbed this year, replaced by the new Washington Bicycle Ride in 2007. The organizers, the same folks who do the Oregon Bicycle Ride, moved the operation across the border for a ride through rural eastern Washington.
Fear not, Idaho bicycle lovers. The Treasure Island YMCA is putting on Ride Idaho for the third year with a 400-some mile loop starting in Coeur d'Alene.
Here are the other updated tours, listed by state …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/03/more-week-long-bicycle-tours-this-summer/
What would you do if you were out of money, you had a family to support, your job required a bicycle, and someone steals it your first day at work?
How far would you go to get it back?
That's what Vittorio de Sici sets out to answer in The Bicycle Thief, filmed in Rome in 1948.
Our “hero”, Lamberto, searches all over Rome for his bike — following leads into missions and brothels — until he puts aside his conscience …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/02/the-bicycle-thief/
How many miles did you ride your bicycle in 2006?
Vote in the poll in the right column and see where you stack up against other Biking Bis readers.
Right off, I'm ashamed to admit that I barely skimmed 2,000 miles. Looking back over my monthly bike logs, I see notes for serious bike mechanical problems in February, the commitment of managing youth baseball in March through mid-June, and illness this fall.
They're all flabby excuses …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/01/bicycle-mileage-poll-for-2006/
Pablo Garcia found more than he bargained for on his worldwide bicycle tour.
The bicycle tour started as a solo venture by the Argentinian cyclist, who embarked from South Africa in 2001. He bicycled up the African continent and reached Egypt in 2004. He then rode around Northern Europe before taking on the Mediterranean countries.
That's when he met, and married, Clara Vicari, an Italian grad student ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/12/31/bicycling-for-peace-and-finding-love/
2006 marked the 30th anniversary for the Bikecentennial summer, when some 4,100 bicycle tourists hit the highway and rode the TransAmerica bicycle route to celebrate the nation's 200th birthday.
The Bikecentennial group is still around under a different name, Adventure Cycling Association. The group is still based in Missoula, Montana, and boasts 42,500 members, up from 7,500 in the early years. It's the largest nonprofit cycling organization in the country.
The hometown newspaper, the Missoulian, interviewed Adventure Cycling's executive director about the group's plans…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/12/30/bicycle-tour-organization-still-spinning/
Bicyclists can celebrate the opening of the final link of the Great Allegheny Passage with a fully supported bike tour that spins from DC to Pittsburgh this summer.
Dubbed the Greenway Sojourn 2007 by organizers Rails to Trails Conservancy, the bike ride takes advantage of 335 miles of unbroken bicycle path comprising the C&O Canal towpath (DC's Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland) and the Great Allegheny Passage (Cumberland to Pittsburgh).
The bike tour, limited to 500 cyclists, runs from June 23-30, 2007. The northbound tour provides camping …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/12/29/bicycle-tour-slated-on-nations-longest-bike-hike-trail/
One of the hottest match-ups for the coming year — Lance Armstrong vs. Floyd Landis at the Leadville 100 — has apparently fizzled out.
Armstrong announced at The Paceline website that he will not be racing in the Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race on Aug. 11, 2007, as previously indicated due to a “scheduling conflict.”
I'm marking that date on my calendar just to see …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/12/29/armstrong-vs-landis-good-idea-while-it-lasted/
You may have already scored your 2007 bicycle racing calendar published by cycling photographer Graham Watson, but there are some other cool bicycle calendars available for 2007.
One that quickly captured my attention is the CyclePassion calendar, featuring cyclists interacting with their bikes. Take for instance this picture for March (the calendar appears to be next to her right knee cap) of a cyclist washing down her Bianchi.
The CyclePassion calendar project was shot by photographer Daniel Geiger, himself a cyclist. Some of the pictures were shot on location …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/12/28/bicycle-calendars-for-2007/
Are you wondering how you're going to be spend your vacation this summer? I've updated more listings for Across-State Bicycle Tours, which might give you some ideas.
These are fully supported, mostly week-long bike tours operated by nonprofit groups to show off the wonders of the various states. I have updates for LABBRAU, GRABAAWR, SAGBRAW, BRAT, OBR, XOBA, among others. That means I've been working in reverse alpha order to update bike tours in Wisconsin, Washington, Tennessee, South Dakota, Oregon and Ohio.
For more updates ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/12/27/more-week-long-state-bicycle-rides-updated/
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