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Optibike Review Is there any place this thing can’t go? It plows through mountain bike trails like they’re stairways to heaven. It negotiates multi-use paths efficiently yet with just the right amount of stealth. On the road it’s the best of both worlds with the maneuvering ability of a bicycle but the get-up-and-go of a …
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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2012/07/24/optibike-electric-mountain-bike-is-supreme-freedom-machine/
Same Great Trail Content, Different Website Look I started having problems with the Trailsnet website sidebars a couple weeks ago. They just disappeared and showed up at the bottom of the page. Thanks to the helpful forum people at WordPress.org and the Graphene Theme helpers, not only did we get the site back and running, …
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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2012/07/22/trailsnet-gets-a-new-look/
Bike Participation is Increasing While Reputation is Decreasing What do a construction worker and Time magazine have in common? No it’s not a bad joke, just a bad analogy. Today, while I was out test-driving a new toy (God I love my job.), I stopped to talk with some construction workers who were working on …
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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2012/07/19/biking-and-trails-update/
What is a rail-trail? I’m still surprised by how many people are unfamiliar with the term rail-trail. So as I was researching a completely different trail-related issue, I came across a good Wikipedia entry for rail-trails. I found the whole article to be enlightening, so I encourage you to click on the article link below …
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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2012/07/17/rail-trail-definition/
Bike Trail Question Answered on Quora I love all the great web 2.0 sites out there that allow users to answer each other’s questions. Recently I posed a bike trail question on Quora. I asked: “On most websites, biking is broken into two categories: road biking & mountain biking. What about bike trails that aren’t …
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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2012/07/15/shared-use-path-is-the-official-name/
Sorry for the inconvenience, but the Trailsnet website has gone haywire recently. For a while yesterday, it was totally messed up but thanks to Jason of MadLab Media for making some partial fixes at the last minute so the site is at least functional. Unfortunately, since I contacted Jason on a Friday, there was only …
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