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Are you thinking of getting your bike tuned up for the summer season?
Well, get in line. The community bicycle shop is one business that’s been booming during the Covid-19 pandemic, not the best thing for those who suddenly want to buy a new bike or get an old one repaired.
The scene outside Gregg’s …
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Lance Armstrong returns to TV on Sunday night as an ESPN documentary chronicles the pro cyclist’s fall from highly praised 7-time Tour de France winner to disgraced blood doper.
Screen grab from trailer for “Lance”
Don’t know if I’ll watch this, as everything about the Texan’s career is a disappointment. I was thrilled by his …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2020/05/24/heroes-rising-and-fallen-teen-girl-bicycles-across-india-on-epic-rescue-armstrong-back-on-tv/
The Washington State Parks announced late Friday that it had reopened the Snoqualmie Tunnel on the Palouse to Casades State Park Trail, about 3 weeks later than normal.
Entering west portal of Snoqualmie Tunnel
The 2.1-mile-long tunnel is one of the highlights of the cross-state rail trail that used to be named the John Wayne …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2020/05/23/snoqualmie-tunnel-on-cross-state-bicycle-trail-reopens/
Sunday, May 13, 1984
Yorktown to Charles City, Va. 40 miles
Note: I’m republishing my journal from a transcontinental bicycle tour my friend Bruce and I took back in 1984. This tells what bike travel was like 36 years ago. No smart phones, no Garmins, no kevlar tires, no wifi. It took 10 weeks, …
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Cross country touring bike 1984; photo by Bruce Friedland
The bike was a Fuji Dynamic 10, which I’d had since about 1977. The year I bought it, Consumer Reports had named it the bike of the year.
As reflected in the name, it was a 10 speed. I upgraded by adding a third chain …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2020/05/13/the-rig-i-rode-in-1984/
County wants users to “Keep Moving”
More than 175 miles of regional trails and 215 miles of backcountry trails – many used by bicycle riders – will reopen in the Seattle area on Friday as King County announced Tuesday that parks will reopen that day.
The proclamation follows the limited reopening of Washington state managed …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2020/05/06/regional-and-backcountry-trails-in-king-county-reopen-on-friday/
Bicyclists will begin crunching the gravel again on some state park trails in Washington beginning next Tuesday after the state announced on Saturday a list of parks that will reopen..
(King County trails reopen on Friday, May 8.)
This trestle on Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail may soon begin to see bicycle traffic again …
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Bicyclists can begin crunching the gravel again on some state park trails in Washington beginning next Tuesday after the state announced on Saturday its list of parks that will reopen.
This trestle on Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail may soon begin to see bicycle traffic again
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced some — but …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2020/05/02/washington-state-announces-reopening-of-some-trails-beginning-tuesday/
RAGBRAI — the Iowa-based grand-daddy of all week-long bicycle rides — will skip the 2020 edition because of dangers posed by the coronavirus.
The 48th Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa has been cancelled for the first time since it started in 1973. The ride has been rescheduled for July 25-31, 2021, according to …
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There are right ways and wrong ways to fix a flat. I cringed a little bit watching Late Night Talk Show host Stephen Colbert take a screwdriver to his rear wheel, but that is one way to get the tire off the rim.
Bicycling across country nearly 40 years ago, my friend and I got …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2020/03/26/colbert-shares-his-efforts-to-change-a-bike-innertube/
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