2011 archive

Tour de Cure

20th anniversary for charity bike ride

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2011 Tour of California releasing daily stage routes

Organizers of the Amgen Tour of California bicycle race (May 15-22) are releasing the route maps and other daily details for the 8-stage race in three installments this week.

Course descriptions, maps, profiles and summary videos for Stages 1, 2, and 3 were released Wednesday. Stages 4, 5, and 6 will be released on Thursday, and the concluding Stages 7 and 8 go online on Friday.

Estimated start and finish times and tourism info from the host cities is included.

The Tour, now in its 6th year, announced the host cities back in October 2010. Since then, organizers ….

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2011 Cycle Oregon route announced; Pacific Coast on itinerary

The surf's up for 2011 Cycle Oregon as the week-long bicycle tour pays a visit to the Pacific Coast for a couple of days on its Sept. 10-17 loop route around the southwestern part of the state.

Organizers announced the route Tuesday night and immediately began taking registrations in-person and online for the 2,200 alloted spots. The 2010 bicycle tour sold out in less than a week.

Registration also opened up for the weekend ride, which is scheduled July 15-17 and based on the campus of Willamette University in Salem.

It might be hard to believe, but the 24th annual week-long bicycle tour will be riding routes …

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2011 Cycle Oregon route announced

Cycle Oregon bicycle tour for 2011. Limited to 2,200 cyclists.

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Transportation advocates flock to Olympia on Thursday

Thursday is the day that corporate lobbyists for the transportation industry take a back seat to those voters seeking better choices in transportation policy at the Washington state capitol in Olympia.

Transportation Choices Coalition is organizing the Transportation Advocacy Day for people to meet their legislators and press for more funding and support for bicycling, walking and transit issues.

The coalition is setting up carpools from Seattle and shuttle buses from the Amtrak station. ….

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Transportation Choices Coalition

Sponsoring transportation advocacy day in Olympia.

Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/09/transportation-choices-coalition/

Myth-busting the RAGBRAI and Ride the Rockies bike tours

Bicycling enthusiasts know the Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI) and the Denver Post Ride the Rockies as two iconic cross-state bicycle tours with a combined history of 65 years.

RAGBRAI is the easy one that rolls across the flatness of Iowa. Ride the Rockies is the challenging one that summits mountain passes nearly every day.

Those myths don't exactly bear up to the facts, however.

In terms of elevation gain — which should really be the yardstick for comparing a flat ride and a mountainous ride — there's not much difference between the two. In fact, bicycle riders on 2011 RAGBRAI will face more climbing ….

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Rolling hills at RAGBRAI

This constantly rolling terrain can take a heavy toll on cyclists. It's one reason that RAGBRAI rivals Ride the Rockies in total elevation gain year in and year out.

Photo by BlueBike at flickr.com.

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Update: Long Beach abandons bicycle license program

Requirements for mandatory bicycle registration in some California cities appear to be going the way of the penny farthing into near-extinction.

Long Beach is the latest city to consider abandoning its mandatory bicycle license program. Late last year San Jose ended bicycle registration, a law that had been on the books since 1974, and Los Angeles ended its program in 2009.

[Update: Feb. 9 — The Long Beach City Council approved halting the licensing program.]

The issue in Long Beach is scheduled to come up at Tuesday's City Council meeting, according to the Long Beach Press-Telegram. The city calls itself the most bicycle-friendly in the US; it is listed as a bronze-level bicycle friendly community ….

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/07/update-long-beach-abandons-bicycle-license-program/

2011 Ride the Rockies bike route announced

You mountain goats of the bicycling world should be happy to see that Ride the Rockies returns for its 26th year in 2011 with six mountain passes in six days.

The route for the 412-mile bike tour presented by the Denver Post was revealed on Sunday, with registration opening now through Feb. 25.

The mass participation bike ride, which accepts 2,000 cyclists by lottery, runs from June 11 – 17 from Crested Butte to Georgetown.

For those who might be interested in two weeks of supported bicycle touring, the Bicycle Tour of Colorado starts …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/06/2011-ride-the-rockies-bike-route-announced/