Pre-registration for White Clay Bicycle Club’s third major event of the year closes Sunday, August 18. Ride beautiful, scenic routes (35, 65, and 100 miles) taking you through flat to gently rolling farmland in central Delaware. All routes will be marked and SAG support provided until 5:00 pm. A wide array of bicycle friendly food…
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I had read about what bicycling was like in Europe, especially in cities such as Amsterdam and Copenhagen, but had never experienced it until last month. My husband and I did a fully supported bike tour* from Budapest to Prague and got to ride a wide variety of roads and bike paths. Wow! We encountered…
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Sometimes It’s the Little Things It’s exciting when something BIG is launched that makes bicycling safer, more fun, or more convenient – like the Pomeroy Trail in Newark, or painted bike lanes as part of a Pave & Rehab project. But sometimes, a little thing can be almost as exciting, like a new bike…
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***FLAT, SCENIC BACKROAD CYCLING IN AMISH COUNTRYSIDE*** ***Earlybird Registration Deadline is July 31*** Pedaling through scenic back roads in tandem with Amish buggies, being surrounded by fields dotted with farmers steering horse-drawn farm implements as they harvest fall crops, is part of the scenery that makes Delaware’s Amish Country Bike Tour a memorable ride for…
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Three days short of a year after Bob Wheeler died tragically, after being hit by a car while out on a recreational ride, a new area in the Smyrna Memorial Garden was dedicated. On June 25, six WCBC/Bike DE members, Amy Wilburn (chair of the Delaware Bicycle Council), and Anthony Aglio and Jim Westhoff from…
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Many bicycle rides cross states that are measured in hundreds of miles and many days. The White Clay Bicycle Club, Bike Delaware’s most generous sponsor, offers an alternative that is modest in time, effort and stamina (a bicycle ride nearly anyone can do) that crosses and “doublecrosses” an entire state in only 31 total miles…
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Oregon is currently ranked 3rd in bike friendliness nationally. In a 2011 Harris poll asking Americans which state they would most like to live in, Oregon ranked 7th. It has not one, not two, but three “gold” and “platinum” bicycle-friendly communities (Corvallis, Eugene and, of course, Portland). At least some, and maybe a whole lot,…
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On May 15, 2013 at 7:00 PM, the northern Delaware 10 mile Ride of Silence will begin at the Ed Oliver Golf Club in Wilmington. Cyclists will take to the roads in a silent procession to honor those cyclists who have been killed or injured while cycling on public roadways. Although cyclists have a legal…
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Do you bike to work regularly? Or occasionally? Or have you thought about it but just never figured out how to manage the logistics? Save the date, Friday, May 17, and join others biking to work in Wilmington, and thousands across the country who will be biking to work that day. There will be two…
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WALKABLE BIKEABLE DELAWARE 2013 SUMMIT Active Transportation, Healthy Families May 1 | Dover, Delaware REGISTER HERE Modeled after the National Bike Summit and many state bike summits, a primary goal of the Walkable Bikeable Delaware 2013 Summit is to have bicyclists and walkers and Delaware’s many biking/walking supporters meet face-to-face with their state…
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