If you started bike commuting to work this spring but hung up your wheels when the dark, wet and cold set in this fall, you might be ready to reconsider your decision.
With the proper lights, layered clothing, and rain gear on your bicycle, there's no reason to abandon the bike for a car or bus these days.
Choose Your Way Bellevue is offering a free winter bike commuting class with the experts from Cascade Bicycle Club.
The brown bag presentation is scheduled on Thursday….
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Time marches on, pedal stroke by pedal stroke. In a few days, your bicycle calendar will be woefully out of date.
Here are a few suggestions for calendars that you might not mind seeing every day in 2012.
The women's bicycling gang “The Belle Starrs” is entering the calendar madness in 2012 with its “Safety is Sexy: Your 2012 pin-up is a guide to ride.” Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, the bicyclists are raising money for their club as well as a local charity. That's Stacy Schroeder on the cover, with other members featured inside.
Although not as sexy, the Adventure Cycling Association's 2012 Calendar will feed your interest in bicycle touring. The nonprofit used photo entries …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/11/07/12-bicycle-wall-calendars-for-2012-the-sexy-and-sublime/
2012 calendar from Russ Roca entitled Big Adventure Small Wheels.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/11/07/bicycle-adventure-calendar/
Bicycle calendar from CyclePassion for 2012. Photo of France's Marion Rousse.
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Fort Collins, Colorado-based Belle Starrs 2012 bicycle calendar. Shows Stacy Schroeder
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Since the East Lake Sammamish Trail opened in 2006 with a crushed stone surface, many bicycle riders have said they'd like to see it paved.
Their wishes have been granted, at least on a 1.2-mile section at the north end of the 11-mile rail-trail.
King County Parks says a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. Monday in the new trail side parking lot on NE 70th Street will mark the re-opening of the Redmond section of the East Lake Sammamish Trail.
Paving the southern end of the East Lake Sammamish Trail in Issaquah is the next project on tap …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/11/06/east-lake-sammamish-trail-paving-northern-section-complete/
As fall becomes winter in the Pacific Northwest, I keep expecting the permanent overcast skies to roll in and bring the drizzle that keeps me in rain gear all winter long.
We've had our share of nasty days already, but Saturday was not one of them. Clear skies and temperatures in the low 50s coaxed me outside on my bicycle. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/11/06/an-unusually-fine-november-day-for-a-bike-ride/
A section of East Lake Sammamish Trail is paved. Between Northeast 70th Street in Redmond to the Redmond-Sammamish border at 187th street. Google map
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Organizers for the Amgen Tour of California announced the 13 cities that will play host to the eight stages of next year's bike race that rolls across 750 miles of scenic landscape from May 13-20, 2012.
Starting in Santa Rosa, the route generally heads southward to the San Francisco Bay area, then east into the Mother Lode. There's an individual time trial in Bakersfield, then two stages in the southern mountains before the final criterium in Los Angeles.
The route meisters are avoiding the high mountains of Northern California, considering the snowy conditions that canceled the first stage last year …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/11/03/host-cities-named-for-2012-amgen-tour-of-california/
Tour of California, May 13-20 2012
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