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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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August Bike Tour?

I just looked at my schedule and it looks like I have almost all of August off before school starts 😉 We’re starting to think of maybe another Ohio Bicycle Tour using a trail that we haven’t ridden upon as … Continue reading

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Updates as of 6/15/12

Greetings fellow wheelers! We’ve posted some new material that we want to draw you attention to. there is a great trail loop description for making a two day overnight loop between Cleveland and Stow. It’s an excellent way if you … Continue reading

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