Category: Silver Comet Trail

On your next trail trip, should you drive or fly?

So you want to ride the Silver Comet Trail and you’re trying to decide whether you should fly into Atlanta, Georgia or drive. With the price of gas, it’s no longer assumed that driving will be cheaper. But how do you find out for sure whether tis cheaper to drive or fly? Should you fly …

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Destination Trails

In a recent post on the River Mountain Loop Trail blog, RMLTMan wrote an excellent explanation as to why he thought the RMLT was a destination trail. It got me wondering if there is a set definition out there for a destination trail. Here are some of the criteria for a destination trail: length – …

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Connecting Rail Trails to make Super Rail-Trails

Super Rail-Trails Rail trails are fantastic. But how do you turn an ordinary, every-day rail trail (if such a thing exists) into SUPER TRAIL!!! It’s really quite simple; you just connect two good trails and you get one great trail.  Here are some examples: C & O Canal trail connects to the  GAP trail, the Western Maryland Rail …

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Freecross perfect for rail trails

OMG!! Can you imagine this on the Silver Comet Trail or the Tammany Trace trail or… Well watch this video of the Freecross, a cool outdoor elliptical machine and tell me you’re not dying to get this on a nice paved path or concrete trail somewhere: According to the Freecross website, founder Wolfgang Eisenberg started …

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Recumbent Bike Blog

Okay, so the term “recumbent bicycle” isn’t technically correct since many recumbents have three and even four wheels and bicycle means “two wheels.” But I know you’re not that picky and neither am I, so I’ll continue to generically refer to all recumbents as recumbent bicycles. There, now that I’ve got that off my chest…I …

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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/06/13/recumbent-bike-blog/

New Poll

Check out our new trail poll over in the right column. We’re trying to find out your favorite southern trail. It’ll be a tough one, because they’re all great. But get off the fence and vote. If you need more information about each of the trails, go to the following web pages to get details …

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