Kevin

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Dec 13 2010

C & O Canal Towpath trail guide published

Bike trails are a dime-a-dozen, right? I mean they’re all over the place; this one’s three miles long, that one’s five miles long. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. bike rider on the C & O Canal Towpath trail in Maryland I dare you to ride the C & O Canal Towpath trail …

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Dec 10 2010

Velo Ride Across America = Roll Over America

I’m a big recumbent fan, and these Velos (see picture) are the ultimate recumbent. So I was interested in this Velo ride across America at the website rolloveramerica.eu. From what I can gather, the velo movement is gaining steam and is becoming a major player in the recumbent cycle scene.  I wish I had the …

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Dec 08 2010

Netherlands Bicycle Routes and City Planning

City planning in the Netherlands and throughout Europe plans around bicycles and bike routes. As the following video shows, they have organized the town(s) so that it is actually easier and safer to travel by bicycle than it is by car: I don’t know about you, but I’d love to spend a couple months exploring …

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Dec 07 2010

Asabet River Rail Trail

I enjoy finding new trail blogs. I just found one entitled, Assabet River Rail Trail’s Blog. It had me from the first sentence: “Some communities embrace rail trails more than others.” The Boulder Creek Path passes through downtown Boulder, CO. That is so true. I put rail trail communities into three categories: Those that don’t …

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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/12/07/asabet-river-rail-trail/

Dec 06 2010

Recumbent bikes and trikes

For those of you interested in recumbents, I just added the recumbent bicycle source to the blogroll (in the left column). I still think that recumbents and rail-trails are the perfect mix. Riding a recumbent trike or bike on a rail trail is about as close to heaven on earth as we can get. I …

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Dec 05 2010

Winter trails are nice, but…

Even those of those of us who enjoy cross-country skiing and snowshoeing on snowy winter trails, sometimes long for the warmth of a summer trail filled w/ the sounds of babbling brooks, chirping insects, and croaking frogs. So here’s a little slice of a summer trail for you to play whenever you start to feel …

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