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Let’s Talk About Planning Your Ride
by Darryl            lovingthebike.com
What is your methodology for planning out your ride?  This is another of our Let’s Talk posts that will be built by you so let’s hear all you have to say about your pre-ride strategy.  What determines how far you’ll ride or what route you’ll take?  Do you follow a training program?  We want to hear about your comments, suggestions, and opinions about everything having to do with planning out your ride.

The video below serves as a prelude to generating comments to this topic, but feel free to…

The Myth of the Bicycle Helmet
by Mark Stewart         www.risksense.org
Don’t worry; I am talking to myself, not to you.  I am warning myself before I take the leap into a realm of challenging a truism.  In a recent survey, 92% of respondents reported that they are in favor of mandatory bicycle helmet laws for children, and 83% are in favor of helmet laws for all cyclists.  Groups as disparate as the American Pediatric Association and various State Departments of Transportation recommend the usage of helmets for cyclists.  And, on and on.  Yet, they might all be wrong.  Bicycle helmets…

Seven New Campaigns Launched at Winning Campaigns Training in Houston, Texas
Alliance for Biking & Walking: People Powered Blog
Over the second weekend in June, the Alliance held the third Winning Campaigns Training of the year in Houston, Texas. The training, hosted by BikeHouston and Citizens’ Transportation Coalition, had participants representing nine different organizations from across the state.

The training was a great way for the participants to kick off this summer, with seven outstanding campaigns geared towards improving biking and walking in communities across Texas. Marissa Taler from Bike Houston, who created a campaign to launch an open streets initiative in Houston, stated that the Winning Campaigns…

Grab your bike: Urban Assault set for Sunday
By Pam LeBlanc        Fit City
If you’d rather fling a Frisbee, power slide a Big Wheel and leap into a foamy pit of suds than simply swim, bike or run, you need to check out the New Belgium Urban Assault Ride.

I did the ride a few years ago, and found myself rambling all over the city on my bicycle, paddling an oversized inflatable ducky through Lady Bird Lake at one point, jousting on a bike at another and solving word puzzles in…

Getting his kicks on Route 66
www.beverleyguardian.co.uk
With this week being National Bike Week, how would you like to cycle 2,451 miles in three weeks?

Well, that’s exactly what Jim Windass will be doing when he tackles America’s historic Route 66, to try to raise in excess of £10,000 for Dove House Hospice in Hull.

As a training ride for the main ‘Cycle 66’ event, Jim cycled along part of the UK’s National Cycle Route 66 on Saturday, starting from his home in Hull and finishing at the Dove House Hospice shop in Market Weighton – a distance of 22 miles.

Jim, 63, will begin his mammoth 2,451-mile journey at Loving Heart Hospice in Los Angeles, California, before winding through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and…

1,700 riders & $5,000 donated to @bambergerranch! Thanks sponsors, volunteers, & all the riders! See you all next year! cc: @RealAleBrewing

— Real Ale Ride (@realaleride) June 20, 2012

DAY 18 ROCKIES: The team had a great time at #Brent'sPlace today in Denver. We're now in Boulder and excited to have a rest day tomorrow!

— Texas 4000 (@Texas4000) June 20, 2012

This week's Pure Austin Fitness Driveway course p/b Alchemy Bicycle Company is the Two Brothers Lawn Care Grand… http://t.co/yJBMgyAd

— Driveway Series (@DrivewaySeries) June 20, 2012

Check out our great cover story about Kelli Sims, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at age 15, and how… http://t.co/eB6AzVt8

— Bike MS: Texas MS 150 (@TexasMS150) June 20, 2012

What a great turnout for June #WomensRideDay! Come to Tres Burritos 7/21 & #WomensRideDay #3 8/18! cc: @iamspecialized pic.twitter.com/LgTikfsd

— Bicycle Sport Shop (@BSS_Austin) June 21, 2012