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Can You Ride A Cardboard Bicycle?
This guy could be my long lost brother. He builds guitars, and now he’s built a bicycle out of cardboard! Awesome! I’ve built a boat out of cardboard and duct tape once, but this guy is taking it to a … Continue reading
Getting Started Bicycle Touring: Tents and Sleeping Bags
Bicycle camping is a fun and economical way to go bike touring. There are several ways in which it can be approached. It’s not quite car-camping and not quite backpacking, but shares a little from each. If you are already … Continue reading
Getting Started Bicycle Touring: An Overview
So you think you want to give bicycle touring a spin? (hahaha!) What do you need to get started? First and foremost is a sense of adventure! Like so many other things in life, it’s a mental thing. You have … Continue reading
Design a Bicycle Path Competition, Cleveland Ohio
Here’s a great chance for you to design a bicycle path the way YOU think it should be! Cleveland Ohio is having a design competition to design the bike path across the Cuyahoga River via the lower concourse of the … Continue reading
Blind Pilot Band Tours on Bicycles!
Holy cow! This is too cool! Being a musician myself, I can totally appreciate this; The band, Blind Pilot, has gone on tour on their bicycles! They were completely unsupported, taking their gear and instruments with them on trailers. They … Continue reading
Cool! Share the Road Ohio License Plates
The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles has Share The Road License Plates available. The plates cost an extra $15 over the normal fees. $5 from the sale of each plate is distributed to the highway safety fund to publish and … Continue reading
Why Do You Ride?
Why do you ride your bicycle? Raleigh is sponsoring a video contest to answer that question. The winner will get a new Raleigh Cadent. To enter, you need to submit a video about why you ride. You can get more … Continue reading
Bicycle Velodrome Being Built in Cleveland Ohio
OK- so I know this isn’t about touring, but it is about bicycles and it is so very, very cool. Cleveland, Ohio, is about to have its very own public Olympic style velodrome! I couldn’t believe it when I heard … Continue reading
New Bicycle Stamps from the USPS
These are cool! Four new bicycle stamps from the United States Postal Service. They are Forever Stamps, meaning, buy them at the current price, and when (note I didn’t say “if”) prices go up, you can still use them with … Continue reading
Great Weather Website with Wind Speed, Direction
Fellow Cyclists! Here’s a way cool weather web site that Carolyn found. We use it all the time for riding. I was just checking it now and thought, “hey, this should be up on the blog!” Anyway, it’s really cool … Continue reading