Category: TransAmerica Tour 1984

Promotional video of 2011 Tour de France

The 2011 Tour de France in 3-minutes and 40-seconds.

[Warning: May cause motion sickness or the desire to dip a 6-inch wide brush in yellow paint and stripe one of your regular bikes routes.]

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1984 Bike Tour: Day 1 – Dude, where's my campground?

Pre-Ramble: Twenty-seven years ago today, my friend Bruce and I saddled up and rode our bicycles out of Yorktown, VA, headed to Carlsbad, California. It took us 11 weeks to ride the 3,998 miles from coast-to-coast.

We used to say that maybe one day we'd make the trip again. We don't say that anymore as we've aged and gotten more set in our ways. So the only way I can enjoy a cross-country bike trip now is to read over our daily journals. They've been a fixture at BikingBis.com every May, June and July since 2005, and I'll be posting them again.

If you don't care to follow along, it's easy enough to just skip them. Or you can read the introduction and see the index at TransAmerica Tour 1984….

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Lake Henshaw, California

Last full day stop on the TransAmerica Tour in 1984. Photo by Bike Czar at flickr.com.

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Time again for that 1984 TransAmerica bike tour journal

Those of you who have been regular readers of Biking Bis will know that my friend Bruce and I took off on a cross-country bicycle tour beginning on May 13, 1984.

We each kept journals of our impressions at the time, and I first started publishing those journal entries — day-by-day — when this blog started back in 2005.

If you've seen them before, then please pardon my repeating them again. But more people come to Biking Bis every year, and I think some of the touring cyclists among you might enjoy reading our adventures from Virginia to California. …

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Bike trail through riverside forest in Washington

Packed limestone covers the Cedar River Trail as it nears the Cascade foothills in Washington. The 16-mile bicycle trail is asphalt for 11 miles.

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Wild animal warnings upstream on Cedar River Trail

The Cedar River Trail runs for 16 miles from urban Renton to rural Landsburg, hard by the Cascade Mountains. At the eastern end, Washington state wildlife officers have posted warnings to avoid bears and mountain lions.

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View from railroad bridge on Cedar River Trail

Bicycling along the Cedar River Trail provides many views of the river from old railroad bridges. In the fall, red sockeye salmon can been seen swimming upstream to spawn.

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Cedar River Trail near Maple Valley

In places the Cedar River Trail runs along Maple Valley Road, screened on the left here by vegetation. Cedar River Trail, Renton to Landsburg, Washington.

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Too much gear

More that 55 pounds of stuff added to my bicycle. Includes Front panniers, trailer, pot, stove, clothes, tent…

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Bikes at marina

Bikes and boats at the Port Townsend Marina

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