Dec 02 2010

Great Explorations bike tour company

Great Explorations is the type of active travel company that is normally featured on our sister site, OTM Tours. But it offers such great bike trail rides, I also wanted to highlight it on the trailsnet site.

For example their Sea to Sky bike trip in British Columbia sounds like the perfect mix of trail types to keep most riders happy and moving. If you’re familiar w/ the good old diamond rating system for ski slopes, you’ll appreciate the mix of trail types on the Sea to Sky bike ride.

“Just because you’re biking in
the mountains, doesn’t mean
you’re mountain biking.” –
Kevin Purdy, trailsnet founder

According to the Great Explorations website, 30% of the trail is green, 60% is blue, and 10% is blackish.

That sounds ideal to me. As I’ve stated on this site before, my heavy-duty mountain biking days are over. That wasn’t necessarily my decision, but my knees.

However, I still like an occasional challenge on a mountain bike trail like my recent trip down memory trail as I ventured back onto Hall Ranch near Boulder, Colorado.

What I’m trying to say is that 10% blackish trails is just enough to provide a dash of variety, a pinch of adrenaline, and a hearty helping of nostalgia.

Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/12/02/great-explorations-bike-tour-company/

Dec 01 2010

Big trails website change

Your trailsnet blogging experience has just gotten a little easier.
Starting on December 1, 2010, the trailsnet blog and trailsnet home page have become one in the same. So now, instead of entering www.trailsnet.blogspot.com to visit the blog, you just need to visit www.trailsnet.com

Don’t worry, if you forget, or you had the blogspot address bookmarked, you’ll automatically be redirected to the correct page.

This one move solved four problems.

  1. My old home page on the main trailsnet website was not exactly up-to-snuff with the rest of the awesome site. Now, it is much more functional and pleasant to view.
  2. It was a pain to have to enter that whole blogspot URL to get to the blog, not to mention it didn’t sync with the rest of the trailsnet website.
  3. Now, I don’t need a separate blog page in the website since the index page is both the home page and the blog combined.
  4. The oodles of content on the blog is going to improve the trailsnet website SEO, so more people will be able to find the wealth of information about trails that is located on trailsnet.com.
In the meantime, there will be a short period of time where the trailsnet blog page will be inoperable. Hopefully it won’t be too much of an inconvenience and will be back online quickly.
Thanks for your patience.

Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/12/01/big-trails-website-change/

Nov 29 2010

New trails network poll on left

What is the ideal Christmas
gift for the active traveler
in your life?

Tis the season of gift giving.

Check out our new poll in the left margin of this blog. What would be the ideal gift for an active traveler? Of course with the limited space of a blog, I couldn’t include anywhere near all the possible options; so feel free to add your choices in the comments section of this (or any) post.

I hope to get some creative responses from all the creative trail users, bicycle tourists, and active travelers in general.

Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/11/29/new-trails-network-poll-on-left/

Nov 28 2010

Bike Lane is a good website for bicycle tourists

New Mexico’s Rail Runner Express
should be called the Trail Runner Express

I spend a lot of time bike touring. When I started, I had no clue what to take, how to get my bike there, where to rent, where to store my bike, and all those basic bicycle travel questions.

Recently, thanks to Stumble Upon, I found a website called Bike Lane. It is a wealth of information for bike travelers. It is an active travel website with information about airports, airlines, trains, bicycle containers, bike storage, bike rentals, and more.

Traveling to trails by train
is the way to go.

In addition to providing invaluable information for the bike traveler, bikelane also makes it easy to submit tips. I was happy to add a couple tips about traveling on a train for bike trips and bicycle shipping when on a bike tour.

If you have any plans to visit some of great bike trails in the United States or around the world, you owe it to yourself to visit Bike Lane for bike touring tips.

Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/11/28/bike-lane-is-a-good-website-for-bicycle-tourists/

Nov 28 2010

Great bicycle comics: The adventures of Willy Go

Check out this video and comics drawn by Philippe Guillerm. Talented artists are good; talented artists whose subjects involve bicycles are even better.

And here’s one of Philippe’s great comics:

Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/11/28/great-bicycle-comics-the-adventures-of-willy-go/

Nov 27 2010

Keep Bicycling a Priority

We all hope that bicycling is a priority in every town. But the reality is that we’ll probably have to work toward that goal one town and city at a time.

With that in mind, here’s your chance to make bicycling a priority in one city. Denver, Colorado will soon be electing a new mayor. The previous mayor, Hickenlooper, was a big supporter of bicycling and biking infrastructure.

Biking the
Platte River Trail in Denver, Colorado

In a preemptive move, a Colorado biking coalition is collecting signatures on a petition to give the new mayor when he takes office during the summer of 2011. It is the hopes of this coalition that the new mayor will be as supporting of bicycle initiatives as the previous mayor. (who is now governor)

So here’s why I’m telling you; visit the Bicycle Colorado website and sign the online petition to keep bicycling as a priority. We can all do our part to make biking a priority in every city in America and to keep it a priority, no matter who is the mayor.

Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/11/27/keep-bicycling-a-priority/