2007 archive
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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Early morning paceline
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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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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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Here's to everyone having a safe and enjoyable year on two wheels …
— Biking Bis
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Movie cover. Known variously as Bicycle Thieves and Bicycle Thief.
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