Kevin

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Jul 27 2010

Medicine Bow Trail

If you’re allergic to moose, then you may want to take your epi-pen on this ride. There is some prime moose territory located on either side of this trail. And while you may see plenty of four-legged critters beside the path, you probably won’t see many of the two-legged variety. We were there on a …

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Jul 25 2010

Black Hawk Bike Ride

Ooooooooohhh!!!  I stuck it to the man today. Okay, it was an extremely minor “stick it to the man,” but a SITTM nonetheless. As I’ve mentioned before in this blog, there’s a ban on bicycle riding in Black Hawk, Colorado. Well guess where I rode my bike today. Woooo Wooooo! Actually I started my ride …

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Jul 22 2010

London Bike Sharing

My favorite place is London, and my favorite activity is bike riding. So imagine my pleasure to find an article about a new bike sharing program in London, England. According to the article, the program will be bigger (at least more bikes) than the one in New York. That’s saying a lot, because the New …

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Jul 21 2010

Groupon offers great deal on Rocky Mountain National Park

Today’s Groupon deal was an awesome one. For $85, they’re offering an overnight trip to Rocky Mountain National Park that includes 3 meals, a guided hike up Long’s Peak (a fourteener), and transportation to the park/trailhead. This would normally cost $284. It’s quite a deal. I’m not a huge mountain climber, and I’m crunched for …

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Jul 20 2010

Pedestrian & Bike Images website

For those of you out there who are also creating blogs and websites about biking and bike trails, I just found a great site with free (conditional) web images for your bike trail or hiking related sites. It is the pedbikeimages website and it contains quite a few royalty free biking, bicycle trail, and pedestrian-friendly …

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Jul 18 2010

Promoting bicycle transportation in the United States

A few recent articles show a glimmer of hope that this country is moving in the right direction when it comes to a bicycle friendly environment. The first two articles are from AARP: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood promotes walking & biking as an alternative to driving Biketopia: how to make a community bike-friendly. Both of …

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