Freire Has Stage Victory Invalidated at Basque Tour

Just when you think you?re witnessing one of the least interesting stages of the summer, a 179-kilometer (111-mile) up and down grinder in the Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco, with the predictable break away being dangled on a 2-minute string by the big named teams who will inevitably bunch it over the last climb to [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/freire-has-stage-victory-invalidated-at-basque-tour/

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Yarosolav Popovych out of the Tour

Yaroslav Popovych will not take the start of stage 10 in the Tour de France. Since Sunday Popovych has fever. As the rest day didn?t bring any amelioration, the team decided not to let him start in Aurillac. The former Tour de France stage winner will undergo some extra tests today. In stage five Popovych crashed [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/yarosolav-popovych-out-of-the-tour/

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Our Latest Share the Joy Winners!

Adventure Cycling's 2012 Share the Joy program is going strong and we continue to give away some great prizes!  Keep sharing Adventure Cycling with your friends and family for more chances to win. Here are some of our recent monthly winners. Congratulations everyone!

Jerry Pallotta, a 1-year member from Boston, Massachusetts, was our March winner. Jerry won a Sherpa Rear Rack from Old Man Mountain. Our April winner, Tito Santiago, a 6-year member from Orlando, Florida, won a Tail Rider bag from Arkel. Roger  Wolcott, a 3-year member from Oxford, Mississippi, was our May winner and won a Therm-A-Rest Prolite Pad from Cascade Designs.

So, start browsing through your address book and your bike club's membership roster, and get your friends and fellow riders excited about Adventure Cycling. Our grand prize for 2012 is a Rapid 1 bicycle from Giant, valued at $1250 (the winner will be randomly drawn from all entries). Visit the contest page to learn about all of the ways that you can get entered to win!


All of our prizes are generously donated by these businesses because they believe in the mission of Adventure Cycling and support the work we do. Please consider supporting these great sponsors as you pedal through the 2012 touring season. Many of the brands can be found in the Adventure Cycling Cyclosource store.


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MEMBERSHIP HIGHLIGHTS is typically posted every other Friday by Amy Corbin, Membership and Marketing Coordinator. Membership Highlights spotlights the various benefits of membership,our accomplishments thanks to member support, and even interviews with some of our most passionate and dedicated members, both individual and organizational.

Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2012/08/our-latest-share-joy-winners.html

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Oliveira Wins the Time Trial Championship in Portugal

Portuguese rider Nelson Oliveira has just won the national time trial championships on the circuit of Pataias in Portugal. Things are really happening for the rider who is in his first year as a professional, riding for Team Radioshack. Just a little over a week ago Oliveira finished fourth in the Tour de Suisse time trial, [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/oliveira-wins-the-time-trial-championship-in-portugal/

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Coffee with Alasdair

This morning I had coffee with one of our visiting cyclists, Alasdair Sinclair. He is a British man cycling across the country on a combination of our TransAmerica and Lewis & Clark Bicycle Trail routes. By the time he reached Missoula he was ahead of schedule and so took a couple of rest days here.
Why coffee with Alasdair? It began last spring when our routes & mapping email box started to fill with notes from one address in particular, Alasdair's. It was apparent by his comments, questions and feedback that our correspondent was studying both the maps and gps waypoints quite carefully. We responded to items that needed immediate attention and filed others away in our addenda queue to be amended at the next update.

Somewhere along the way, Alasdair mentioned he would be keeping a blog. I added the address to my feed reader so I could follow his progress. This is always one of the highlights of the summer for me, to follow a few bicycle traveler's blogs and ride with them vicariously. You can check out his journey, too, at 2012 Cycling Across America.

In addition to his desire to see some of America, Alasdair is also raising funds for the Smile Project, a group that aids children and young adults in developing countries by correcting facial deformities such as cleft palette and cleft lip. (He is still accepting donations if you're interested in supporting the cause.)

When Alasdair reported he was just about to Missoula, Carla and I decided we wanted to acknowledge the time and efforts he put forth in sending us corrections and feedback. This is invaluable information for us to receive and much appreciated. And while a cup of coffee is only a small token of the appreciation we have for him, we hope he realizes the impact his feedback has on the community of cyclists who use our maps.

In our morning chat in the bright summer sunshine, Alasdair related to me some of his other travels and how he came to be a traveling cyclist. We discussed the Adventure Cycling maps and routes, how they are made and updated as well as paper vs gps navigation. Sadly, his gps gave up the ghost about a week into his travels so much of the work he put into organizing them for himself was for naught. He was able to salvage them somewhat by using them in the evenings on his netbook to plan ahead. In the end though, the paper maps seem to be serving his purpose just fine.

It was lovely to connect face to face with someone I had been emailing with, and it renewed my energy and enthusiasm to return to my desk for another day of mapping. Thank you Alasdair, may you have mostly tailwinds in your future!

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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/2012/07/coffee-with-alasdair.html

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Radioshack, Trek & Nissan, Sponsors Two More Years

Here is a bit of great news to the fans of Team Radioshack. Johan Bruyneel has just released the following message on his blog. “Even before the Tour has started, I have some great newsfor you. RadioShack, Nissan and Trek have all renewed their sponsorships for 2 additional years! The riders and staff are extremely grateful [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/radioshack-trek-nissan-sponsors-two-more-years/

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Tour de France Stage 14 ? The Big One

A beautiful day for a bike race! Blue skies and nice weather (a bit warm) greeted the cyclists at the start line in the city of Saint-Gaudens within sight of the mighty Pyrénées in the south of France. The 169-kilometer course had a shark?s tooth profile and with lots of categorized mountains, a bunched-up group [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/tour-de-france-stage-14-the-big-one/

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Sampling the Great Divide

 Ever since I first heard about Adventure Cycling?s Great Divide Mountain Bike Route several years ago, I?ve been a fan and a follower of all things related to the epic, off-pavement cycling route. I?ve hunted down blog entries and journals from riders on sites such Crazy Guy on a Bike, followed the Tour Divide race, and have purchased several of the Adventure Cycling route maps in hopes of one day riding it myself. When the opportunity arose to staff on an Adventure Cycling guided tour on the Great Divide, I jumped on it immediately.

Cycle Divide Montana is a 7-day sampling of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route through western Montana, starting in the ski resort town of Whitefish and ending in Lincoln. It covers about 250 miles of the famed route, on lightly traveled Forest Service roads through lush forests, past alpine lakes, along rushing spring-fed creeks, and this part of the route also offers a few small sections of zippy, singletrack trail.

Approximately 45 Adventure Cycling members from all over the country took the tour and several seasoned Adventure Cycling tour leaders supported the group: marking the route each day, leading map meetings, setting up water stops along the route, and providing mechanic support and transport of everyone?s luggage.

The group assembled in Whitefish on the afternoon of day 1 for an introduction meeting followed by dinner and a social hour. Though we woke up to showers on day 2, the remainder of the week treated the group with sunny, dry weather and clear blue sky. The route took the group along the Swan River Valley, on a variety of dirt Forest Service roads and trails through towns such as Bigfork, Condon, Seeley Lake, and Lincoln. At night we camped in small towns along the route, a few of which had their population doubled while our group was there. Our well-deserved layover day in Seeley Lake provided a chance to hike to Morell Falls, soak in the sun at Seeley Lake, canoe the Clearwater River, and just relax in town.

The group had many riders who?d never done a dirt tour before and some who were new to mountain bikes altogether. Some riders encountered a few challenges but all were rewarded with spectacular views and scenery, camaraderie and opportunities for swimming holes at just about every turn. By the tour's end, many of the riders were talking about tackling another section of the route next summer.

It was a great opportunity to have a taste of the route alongside many like-minded cyclists and I recommend the ride for anyone looking for a fun and challenging, off-pavement bicycle adventure.

See photos from the trip on the Adventure Cycling Tours Flickr Pool.

- Paul Hansbarger

Photos by Paul Hansbarger.


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ON THE ROAD is written by the tours team -- Mo, Paul, Madeline, and Arlen -- tours specialists and intrepid bicyclists, covering all things related to Adventure Cycling's Tours Department. There is still space available on some of our fall 2012 Tours.

Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2012/07/sampling-great-divide.html

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