Team RadioShack in Franco-Belge and Binche

The Team line-up for the next races: Circuit Franco-Belge (Belgium) 29/9-2/10/11 Riders: Sam Bewley, Ben Hermans, Michal Kwiatkowski, Geoffroy Lequatre, Robbie McEwen, Gregory Rast, Jesse Sergent & Evgeniy Shalunov Director: Dirk Demol Binche-Tournai-Binche (Belgium) 04/10/11 Riders: Manuel Cardoso, Ben Hermans, Robert Hunter, Michal Kwiatkowski, Geoffroy Lequatre, Robbie McEwen, Jesse Sergent & Evgeniy Shalunov Director: Dirk [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/team-radioshack-in-franco-belge-and-binche/

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Chris Horner out of Tour de France 2011

Chris Horner appears to have broken his nose and suffered a concussion with the nasty crash on stage 7 of the TDF that separated the main field about 37 mi from the finish. A concussion is a “jarring” of the brain caused by head trauma with the severity often being related to the time of [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/chris-horner-out-of-tour-de-france-2011/

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Klöden, Horner Finish One, Two In Basque Tour

Team RadioShack?s Andreas Klöden (GER) and Chris Horner (USA) finished off a great week of racing in warm and sunny Spain with powerful time trial performances that set them at the top of the general classification after the concluding 6th stage of the Tour of Basque Country today. Klöden fell just shy of winning the [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/kloden-horner-finish-one-two-in-basque-tour/

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TdF Stage 13 ? The Mighty Col d?Aubisque

Today?s 13th stage, a short mountain course starting in Pau, climbing over the mighty 1,709 meter Col d?Aubisque and finishing in Lourdes, France, saw many of the general classification contenders taking a bit of a break over the 152.5-kilometer, or 95 mile trek. After such a grueling first 2 weeks it was well deserved, even [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/tdf-stage-13-the-mighty-col-d%e2%80%99aubisque/

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Ben King Profile

Ben King Profile Benjamin King (born March 22, 1989 in North Garden, Virginia) is an American professional road-racing cyclist who moves up to Team RadioShack for the 2011 season.  Ben started racing at the age of 14 showing great promise and winning junior national titles before signing with Kelly Benefit Strategies.  He attended college at [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/ben-king-profile/

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Ben King Profile

Ben King Profile Benjamin King (born March 22, 1989 in North Garden, Virginia) is an American professional road-racing cyclist who moves up to Team RadioShack for the 2011 season.  Ben started racing at the age of 14 showing great promise and winning junior national titles before signing with Kelly Benefit Strategies.  He attended college at [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/ben-king-profile/

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More "Wow" Indicators of the Bike Travel Boom

I just got back from the Adventure Travel World Summit in Lucerne, Switzerland, and as usual, was blown away by the growth in this sector of the tourism market. But, I was really excited by the growth in attendance by bike tour operators. When I went to this conference two years ago in Scotland, it seemed like there were no more than a dozen bike tour outfits; this time, there were more than 40.

We held an unofficial get-together and crammed together in a small room to brainstorm and get to know one another. After 2 and 1/2 hours (and that was after a full day of conference-ing), we agreed to set up a kind of caucus for bike touring within the Adventure Travel Trade Association. It was so stimulating, hob-nobbing with colleagues from Croatia, Southeast Asia, Colombia, Namibia, Venezuela, Germany, Cuba, Montenegro, New Zealand, Brazil, and many more countries. I made sure many of them got Adventure Cyclist magazine!

Also at the conference, I connected with proprietors of walking and trekking companies who are edging into bike tours, to diversify and because they see new revenue streams. In fact, they are finding that bike tours can outperform their walking tours. Some companies, like KE Adventure (based in the UK but with global operations), saw their bike tour sign-ups jump nearly 90%, driven in part by cycling in the Olympics and the fact that a Brit won the Tour de France.

Finally, it was terrific to meet some star travel bloggers who have toured by bike. I had lunch with the very high-energy Marybeth Bond, aka the Gutsy Traveler (pictured with me above), who rode across the U.S. with her daughter a couple of years ago on Adventure Cycling's Western Express and TransAm routes. I also heard Dave Bouskill, one-half of the Canadian couple running ThePlanetD.com travel blog, talk about how he and his wife were inspired to start the blog by their experience on the incredible Tour d'Afrique. They were just two of the many folks who were part of the wave of interest in the active travel component of the adventure tourism market.

Next dispatch, a nirvana for adventure cyclists: Switzerland!

Photos courtesy of Jim Sayer. Top photo: More than 40 bike tour operators from around the world gathered to talk shop at the Adventure Travel Summit in Lucerne, Switzerland. Bottom photo: Jim Sayer and Marybeth Bond, a leading travel columnist and blogger at GutsyTraveler.com

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JIM SAYER is executive director of Adventure Cycling Association.

Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2012/10/more-wow-indicators-of-bike-travel-boom.html

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August bored.

August bored. Are you bored?  Something about the word bored just makes me cringe.  I don?t believe in boredom.  If you are bored, then you must have very little for an imagination.  You must not be capable of entertaining yourself, or expanding beyond your boundaries. I am considering signing up for cooking lessons, dance classes, hike the entire Pacific Crest Trail, and go to Disneyland. That being said, I am bored.  Racing is winding down, far too soon in my opinion, but that is women?s cycling for you.  Even though...

Source: http://alisonstarnes.com/august-bored/

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Tweaking the Pacific Coast Route

This past spring we received an online map correction card from the Orange County Bicycle Coalition in California. They were offering suggestions for tweaking the Pacific Coast Bicycle Route: "North or Southbound in Southern California we have established "safe passage" routes through the towns of Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, and Dana Point. Please consider these "alt routes" for rider safety."

We love using local and from-the-road feedback to improve our routes and will look into making these changes the next time that map section Pacific Coast #5 is reprinted.

In the meantime, you can take advantage of these alternates routes via their well done Alt Routes on PCH web page. They have maps and turn by turn instructions for both directions.

Give them a look and let us know what you think.

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GEOPOINTS BULLETIN is written by Jennifer 'Jenn' Milyko, an Adventure Cycling cartographer, and appears weekly, highlighting curious facts, figures, and persons from Adventure Cycling's Route Network with tips and hints for personal route creation thrown in for good measure. She also wants to remind you that map corrections and comments are always welcome via the online Map Correction Form.

Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2012/10/tweaking-pacific-coast-route.html

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