How's this for a way to finish a three-day bike tour in mid-September?
Snow greeted the 435 cyclists on the final day of the 109-mile Mickelson Trail Trek last weekend, reminding them that the Black Hills of South Dakota can offer blustery weather while the rest of us are enjoying late summer temperatures.
This was the 9th year for the bicycle tour that uses the 114-mile George S. Mickelson Trail that runs between Edgemont and Deadwood in southwestern South Dakota. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/09/22/a-snowy-mickelson-trail-trek-in-south-dakota/
Snow greeted more than 400 cyclists during the last of the three-day Mickelson Trail Trek in South Dakota.
Photo from MickelsonTrail Trek website.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/09/22/snow-during-south-dakotas-mickelson-trail-trek/
… on your torso, on your shades, in your portfolio, etc….
The branding of Lance Armstrong is heading into your home. The kitchen to be exact.
Housewares manufacturer Chantal, in cooperation with the Lance Armstrong Foundation, is introducing a line of products in yellow stamped with the LiveStrong emblem. The Chantal products include tea kettles, tea pots, coffee and latte mugs, large and small serving plates, and more. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/09/21/lance-armstrong-on-your-wrist-on-your-bike-in-your-home/
Chantal selling housewares with LiveStrong logo
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/09/21/livestrong-tea-kettle/
A county prosecutor in Indiana says there's no basis to file charges against a truck driver involved in a collision that killed two policemen on a charity bicycle ride in August.
Indiana State Police Lt. Gary Dudley, 52, and former Lake County Police Chief Gary Martin, 63, were killed when a truck rear-ended a support van for the bike ride and shoved it into a group of cyclists. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/09/20/no-charges-in-bicycling-deaths-of-indiana-policemen/
This bunch of bicycles caught my eye at the Port Townsend Marina last month while I was on my bike tour of the Olympic Peninsula. The sailors who depend on the wind to propel their sailboats rely on their own muscle-power to get themselves around town. No fossil fuels involved.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/09/19/bikes-and-boats-wheels-and-wind/
Bikes and boats at the Port Townsend Marina
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/09/19/bikes-at-marina/
Two teen-agers died in separate MS 150 Bike Tour fund-raisers last weekend in collisions with motor vehicles.
Charlie Vogann, 15, died on the Oklahoma chapter bike tour, and Rachel Giblin, 15, was killed in an accident during the Mid-Atlantic chapter's Breakaway to the Beach bike ride in South Carolina. News reports say one accident occurred on a busy US highway, while the other happened when a volunteer waved cyclists through an intersection. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/09/19/tragic-weekend-for-ms-150-bike-rides-in-oklahoma-and-south-carolina/
Hood Canal Bridge. 
Dungeness River Bridge. Johnson Creek and Morse Creek trestles.
When I biked over to the Olympic Peninsula a few weeks ago for a bicycle-camping trip, it wasn't my intention to recreate a romantic drama like Clint Eastwood's “Bridges of Madison County.”
There's nothing particularly romantic about a sweaty, dusty bicyclist with yesterday's laundry — chamois-side up — fastened to his bike trailer with bungee cords to dry.
But I did stop to take a few pictures of the bridges I crossed along the way. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/09/15/photographing-the-bicycle-bridges-of-the-olympic-peninsula/
Spain's Grand Tour bike race that started 2 1/2 weeks ago with 189 cyclists competing has boiled down to a battle between two cyclists — Alejandro Valverde of Spain and Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan.
Vinokourov tried to nail his overall Vuelta a Espana victory Thursday by crushing Valverde on steep slopes of the Pandera, gaining — with time bonuses — 44 seconds over his rival by the finish. This in spite of Valverde's pre-race pledge to attack and win on the mountain. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/09/14/kashechkin-and-vinokourov-big-winners-on-pandera-at-vuelta-a-espana-bike-race/
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