What do Australians consider the top 10 bike rides?
The Escape.com.au website lists two very different rides for cyclists in the US: the week-long RAGBRAI across Iowa and the 1-day Bike New York through the city's 5 boroughs.
In its homeland, the website touts the Great Victorian Bike Ride, left, Nov. 26 to Dec. 4, as one of the …
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How many times have you seen this? Rest stop at Great Victorian Bike Ride 2004.
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It's been a little more than a year since cyclist Josie Johnson, left, 25, was killed after an SUV struck her from behind at the edge of a Utah road.
That fatality, the third cycling death in Utah in 37 days, galvanized bicycle advocates in Utah into seeking stronger laws to make bicycling safer.
Their actions resulted in the Utah legislature …
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At Salt Lake County Bicycle Advisory Committee.
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Utah cyclist killed Sept. 18, 2004.
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“On your left….” “ON YOUR LEFT…!” “HELLO?”
Just a snippet of a one-way conversation I had with a bicycle-riding couple on the Lake Washington bike trail a few weeks ago.
They were toodling along on their bikes, side-by-side, oblivious to the world around them. When we reached a hill and the guy rode a little bit ahead, I had a …
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Next year marks the 30th anniversary of Bikecentennial, the predecessor to the Adventure Cycling Association. Staff members will be hitting the road to talk about what's new.
For the most part, cross-country touring all started with Bikecentennial. Sure, bicyclists had picked their way from one coast to the other before then. But 1976 — the nation's bicentennial — marked the first time …
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Helen Roberts, the cycling volunteer from Colorado, has reached Baton Rouge where she's awaiting a ride to hurricane-devastated Pearlington, Mississippi. Pearlington is a small river town that's been all but ignored by federal relief agencies.
Helen left Aspen in mid-September on her Cannondale, pulling a trailer with 50 pounds of gear. In a few days, she'll be living in a brick school house, one of the few buildings left standing…
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Helen Roberts' destination. The town has been devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
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Cyclists shouldn't be suffering a lot of fear and loathing over the possibilities of male impotence caused by bike saddles. Anyway, isn't anxiety a major cause of erectile dysfunction?
The New York Times interviewed several specialists in a story this week (“Serious Riders, Your Bicycle Seat May Affect Your Love Life”) that concludes that most bike saddles do little to protect the sex organs …
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