Bicyclists pose at the Continental Divide on their cross-country bike tour to raise money for the American Lung Association.
2009 archive
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Half a million pieces of chocolate equals 5,000 bikes for Africa
Cadbury Canada brought together two of my favorite things — chocolate and bikes — in a promotion to do some good in Africa.
The chocolate maker is sending 5,000 bikes to central and southern Ghana where they'll give people access to schools, medical care and local markets.
Chocaholics participated in the bike donation by converting their Cadbury purchases into bicycle parts at The Bicycle Factory website. Consumers entered UPC codes from their chocolate purchases to “create” bicycle parts.
Each UPC equaled a bicycle part. It took 100 parts to build a bicycle …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/06/half-a-million-pieces-of-chocolate-equals-5000-bikes-for-africa/
Rail-to-trail bike travel provides economic stimulus
Bike travelers on the Great Allegheny Passage pump about $40 million a year into the local economies and $7.5 million into wages along the 132-mile rail-to-trail from Cumberland, Maryland, to the outskirts of Pittsburgh.
Those are the not-so-surprising findings of the Great Allegheny Passage Economic Impact Study conducted in 2008 and 2009.
The report once again proves the “build-it-and-they-will-come” relationship between trails, bicyclists, and profitability to businesses in the vicinity, especially those that cater to bike travel.
Some of the major findings of the study:
— The $40 million was more than five times the impact of $7.26 million in 2001, when the Passage links had not yet been connected;
— On average, businesses attributed 25% of their sales to trail users …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/05/rail-to-trail-bike-travel-provides-economic-stimulus/
Armstrong and Evans at Tour Down Under in January
Lance Armstrong will have some competition as the most popular kid in the peloton for Australia's Tour Down Under next January now that favorite son Cadel Evans, right, has committed to the bike race.
Evans had earlier been quoted that he was going to skip his nation's bike race because it didn't fit into his training schedule for the 2010 Tour de France, which he is hungry to win.
But having relocated to BMC Racing after dropping his five-year tenure with Silence-Lotto last week, Evans and BMC are said to be accepting a wild card to race in the Tour Down Under from January 17-24, 2010.
There's no doubt that Armstrong's return to Adelaide with his newly minted Team RadioShack …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/05/armstrong-and-evans-at-tour-down-under-in-january/
Cadel Evans foto
From 2009 Tour de France.
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Adventure Cycling names “Bicycle travel award winners”
Bikers' cabin, Virginia
circa 1984
Here are the latest and final election results. Trust me. There will be no charges of mudslinging or requests for recounts.
I'm talking about the results from the Bicycle Travel Award contest hosted by Adventure Cycling Association, the nonprofit that has developed 38,000 miles of bike routes criss-crossing the US.
The folks named below were nominated by some of you. The individuals were chosen for making the on-the-road lives of bike travelers easier and their work in furthering the enjoyment of bicycle touring.
The June Curry Trail Angel Award goes to Bill and Nancy Nix of Knox, North Dakota …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/04/adventure-cycling-names-bicycle-travel-award-winners/
Twitter's list of best bike movies never made
We all know that Twitter is a great resource for social networking, and it's the one place where you'll always be able to find out what Lance Armstrong is up to on a daily, in not hourly, basis.
But I never have been so entertained — and wasted so much time — on Twitter as this morning with suggestions from the Twitteratis of the best bike movies never made.
Here's just a few of my favorites from this morning. They can be found at Twitter.com #bikemovies:
Citizen Chain
Astana Potter and the Prisoner of Kazakhstan
The Year of Spinning Dangerously …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/04/twitters-list-of-best-bike-movies-never-made/
French video catches cyclists off-guard
Imagine rolling along on your bike for a leisurely country ride and suddenly being thrust into the finish line of a major bike race.
That's the stunt set up by Frenchman Remi Gallard in this video at left. It looks like something Alan Funt might have done for Candid Camera; others compare Gallard's work to Johnny Knoxville.
In any case, these cyclists seem to take the interruption pretty good-naturedly. I mean, how can you not laugh at a guy running alongside you in his underwear? …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/04/french-video-catches-cyclists-off-guard/
Challenging bike ride for Tour de France fans in 2010
This has to be one of the most difficult one-day organized bike tours for weekend warrior bicyclists in 2010.
The l’Étape du Tour departs from Pau, France, on July 18 and follows the same route the pros will take later in the week over two mountain passes with a finish atop the Col du Tourmalet.
Presesented for the 18th year by Tour de France organizers, the ride allows the rest of the bicycling population to endure the gut-wrenching climbs and dizzying heights that the pros experience.
This year's ride is the same as Stage 17, a 108-mile jaunt the pro cyclists will tackle on July 22; one of six mountain stages of the 2010 Tour de France…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/03/challenging-bike-ride-for-tour-de-france-fans-in-2010/
The 2010 Etape du Tour
Here's the route for recreational bicyclists on July 18, 2010. It's the same route that the pros will take on Stage 17 on July 22, 2010.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/03/the-2010-etape-du-tour/
Trail biking
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