Although summer seems like a long way off, across-state bike tour organizers are updating their routes for next year's events.
In the past week, Cascades Bicycle Club's Ride Around Washington (RAW) and the Argus-Leader's Tour de Kota announced their 2011 mass-participation bike rides. Each one is in excess of 400 miles.
The Cascade Bicycle Club's Ride Around Washington (RAW) bike tour returns to the Cranberries to Apples themed route ….
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Year in and year out, the name Paul O. Wantzelius always has been listed on the roster of cyclists riding the Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic.
For at least a decade, Wantzelius and Jerry Baker have been the only two cyclists riding the STP in consecutive years who were among the original 70 riders on the 200-mile bike ride the first time in 1979.
Wantzelius passed away in Hope, BC, on his way home from the Tour de Lacs bike ride in eastern Washington last month.
The Maple Valley resident had just announced his retirement from Boeing ….
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The Boeing employee rode his bike in the STP every year until his death in 2010.
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October 30, 2010
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A Japanese bicyclist traveling around the world to draw attention to his home country's neglected bamboo forests is recovering from a mild concussion after he was struck by a car.
Takashi Matsumoto was riding his fully loaded bamboo bicycle near Goreville, Illinois, Friday morning when he was struck from behind by a motorist driving an SUV.
Matsumoto, 33, was knocked into a ditch and suffered a concussion. He was rushed to Carbondale Memorial Hospital by ambulance.
Calling himself the Bamboo Samauri ….
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Takashi Matsumoto traveling around the world by bicycle to raise awareness of Japanese bamboo forests. See his blog.
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Oct. 30, 2010 — It has been nearly three years since I wrote about two recent reincarnations of Thomas Stevens, the first man to circle the globe on a bicycle (left). A lot has happened since then. Here's the original story with updates included.
Dec. 13, 2007 — While one penny farthing rider has a hard time riding around his hometown of Palo Alto without getting stopped by police, another was invited by friendly police in Tibet to be their guest at a police station.
Martin Krieg says police in Palo Alto ….
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Although Lance Armstrong will be limiting his pro cycling in 2011 to the Tour Down Under and a few domestic races, he'll be competing for a triathlon championship on the world stage.
Coach Chris Carmichael says that Armstrong will compete in the 2011 Ironman World Championships at Kona, Hawaii, on Oct. 8, 2011.
The event requires that participants swim 3.8 km (2.3 …
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