2009 archive
A visit to the offices of Adventure Cycling Association is a highlight for bike travelers on the traditional TransAmerica route as they pass through Missoula, Montana.
Since 1982, Greg Siple, the co-founder of Bikecentennial which later became Adventure Cycling, has been taking portraits of them.
Here's the first one, at left. She's Laura Orton, a hospital dietician from Michigan who stopped by the office while on a bike vacation from Seattle.
Now, the Adventure Cycling has posted 76 of those portraits online in the National Bicycle Touring Portrait Collection. It's fun to browse through them and see what people have been riding and carrying over the years. One thing in common, they all have the self-satisfied expression of being on the ride of their lives …
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The Adventure Cycling Association has been taking photos of the bike travelers who stop by for a visit since 1982. Here's the first one. As with all of them, it was taken by Greg Siple. More online at National Bicycle Touring Portain Collection.
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Fall is in the air up here in the Pacific Northwest. The days already are getting noticeably shorter and many school districts are opening their doors next week.
There are still plenty of good bicycling days left this year, however. I've just updated more than 60 charity and recreational bike rides on the West Coast states through the end of the year.
The bulk of the bike rides — 40 — are in California, where the break in the hot summer weather means more comfortable bicycling weather. More than 20 rides are scheduled in Washington state, mostly in September, before the winter rains set in. (This doesn't include the randonneur rides, which have a crowded fall schedule.)
One of the newest entries on Washington's September bike calendar is the 2nd annual “Pedaling the Muse” on Sept. 12. The amusing poster shows Vincent Van Gogh …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/08/27/dozens-of-west-coast-bike-rides-this-fall/
Lance Armstrong's Team RadioShack will head to Australia in January to make the Tour Down Under the first race for the new team.
The Tour Down Under rolls out Jan. 17-24, 2010, and is once again based in Adelaide. Armstrong's return to professional cycling at the bike race earlier this year boosted the attendance over previous years by about 50%.
Even a year after his announced return to cycling, Armstrong is still a big draw. His bike ride around Dublin after the close of his cancer summit there drew more than 1,000 bicyclists. Although he had hinted at a ride in Dublin's Phoenix Park earlier in the week, he gave the final details only hours before he set off. ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/08/26/2010-tour-down-under-first-bike-race-for-team-radioshackwho-will-be-on-the-team/
Karl Krueger will be the first person to go into the bicycling record books for riding his bike to hell and back.
While most of us have probably felt that way after a particularly ugly bike ride, 62-year-old Krueger is the first to ever finish the bike event called the “Hell & Back.”
All he had to do was ride his recumbent bicycle clear across South Dakota, turn around, and ride back. He finished the 824-mile endurance ride in just under 93 hours — 3 hours ahead of the cut off.
The Hell & Back is part of the Gut Check 212 endurance bike race across South Dakota, a fund raiser for Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA).
The Gut Check 212 solo ride follows Highway 212 …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/08/25/man-rides-his-bike-hell-says-it-was-fun/
Gut Check 212 is an annual endurance bike ride across South Dakota that raises money for Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA).
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Pedaling the Muse bike ride benefits the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center.
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Hincapie and Leipheimer also on the card
Christian Vande Velde will return to the 2009 Tour of Missouri bike race from Sept. 7 to 13 to defend his title.
The Illinois born and bred cyclist for Team Garmin-Slipstream had previously been on an early roster for the Vuelta a Espana, which runs through nearly the entire month of September, precluding him from riding in Missouri.
He'll be joined at the third Tour of Missouri bike race by teammates David Zabriskie, a time trial specialist, and Steven Cozza, judged the “best young rider” at the inaugural Tour of Missouri in 2007.
Vande Velde was looking for another amazing year in 2009 to follow up with his break-out year in 2008, which included wearing the pink leader's jersey at the Giro d'Italia and a 5th place finish at the Tour de France …..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/08/24/defending-champion-vande-velde-riding-in-2009-tour-of-missouri/
Vande Velde, a member of the US-based Garmin Slipstream pro cycling team, finished 8th in the 2009 Tour de France.
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Few things excite my imagination more than scanning bike trail maps.
On Sunday I stumbled across a new brochure for the Iron Curtain Trail, a bike path that one day will traverse the 4,216-mile length of the Cold War border between eastern and western Europe.
Beginning at the Norway-Russia border on the Barents Sea in the north, the bike route touches 20 nations before it ends on the Black Sea coast in Turkey in the south.
Nearly equal in length to the TransAmerica Trail that stretches from Yorktown, Virginia, to Astoria, Oregon, in the US, this bike trail passes parks, monuments and green belts that mark the so-called “death strip” between East and West during the Cold War …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/08/24/new-trail-for-bike-vacations-along-europes-iron-curtain/
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