Posted on June 2, 2008 | No Comments
“Trail Angel” Gillian Hoggard, whose Ordway, Colorado home was destroyed by a wildfire in April, is now rebuilding, with the help of friends, neighbors, and the touring cyclist community.
In 2006, Hoggard received the June Curry Trail Angel Award from the Adventure Cycling Association, which recognizes generous individuals or groups that …
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Posted on May 9, 2008 | No Comments
This June, Andrew Henrichs begins an extraordinary journey. He’s planning to ride his bicycle to, and then climb, Colorado’s “fourteeners” — 54 mountain peaks, each at least 14,000 feet high.
Andrew will ride an Xtracycle-equipped mountain bike to the trailhead of each peak, and then climb to the summit on foot. …
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Posted on May 6, 2008 | No Comments
The Oklahoma FreeWheel is Oklahoma’s premier bicycle touring event. It starts June 8th at Marietta near the Texas border, and ends at Caldwell, Kansas on the 14th. This year will be the Oklahoma FreeWheel’s 30th anniversary.
Along the way the tour passes through numerous small towns, and with over 1000 cyclists, …
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Posted on April 11, 2008 | No Comments
Aaron & Laura Beese are Oklahoma natives that have embarked on a unique bicycle tour — to visit and document each of the geographic centers of all fifty U.S. states on their tandem bicycle.
This two-year journey started in central Oklahoma in June 2007, and from there they headed east and …
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