Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Merry Christmas.  Happy Christmas. I know I am a little bit late wishing the very warmest holidays to you and your family, but that is a good sign that I was fully immersed in the perfect Christmas cheer involving a gingerbread house, Christmas tree and wreath, puffy paint Christmas stockings, festive music, Christmas manicure, flawlessly wrapped presents and a spice pot.  Yes.  A spice pot. It was the more memorable Christmases I have had in quite some time, maybe because I can remember things again, or maybe because it was...

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Team RadioShack, By The Numbers

As we now head full steam into the 2011 racing season, with several major races, and victories already in the record books, it seems a good time to provide a brief overview of the 29 riders making up this year?s Team RadioShack roster and compare some of their statistics. You can always find more in-depth [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/team-radioshack-by-the-numbers/

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Photos From The Working Burgundy Wine Harvest 2011

This year while taking a break from running gasronomic cycling holidays for DuVine Adventures I picked grapes for two weks. For over 2000 years this anchient havest take place producing some of the greatest wines in the world. Back breaking...

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Recap: Tour of Flanders (Ronde van Vlaanderen)

Hills are bad enough, Pave is not a preferred surface for cycling. Put the two together and you have a punishing prospect for a cycle race. And so it is with the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Thrills, spills leg-pain, guts and all out exhaustion are guaranteed in every running of this World Pro Tour race. Falling [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/recap-tour-of-flanders-ronde-van-vlaanderen/

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Team RadioShack?s Sophomore Season: Plenty of Reason for Excitement in 2011

The racing?s well underway in the 2011 ProTour season, and it?s clear that Team RadioShack (TRS) means to make its mark during its sophomore campaign. With the team?s well-known founder, Lance Armstrong, announcing his retirement after this year, and already concluding participation in international races for the season, there?s plenty of opportunity for the many [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/team-radioshack%e2%80%99s-sophomore-season-plenty-of-reason-for-excitement-in-2011/

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TdF Stage 10 ? Klöden Well Positioned

A very hilly 158-kilometers (about 100 miles) of warm, humid conditions over 4 categorized climbs saw the peloton working hard today after Monday?s rest day, with the sprinters teams looking to neutralize any breaks to choreograph a bunch sprint finish. And that?s just what happened. It looked like HTC-Highroad?s well-honed sprint train would once again [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/tdf-stage-10-kloden-well-positioned/

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How to Deal with Dog Encounters

If you ask a traveling cyclist about their scariest moment on a bike, many of them will respond with a tale about an encounter with a loose dog.

This is a situation which cyclists can encounter on roads across the U.S. and around the world. Though we haven't formally tracked the number of reports we've received from each U.S. state, anecdotally it seems like Kentucky holds the lead in cyclist vs. dog encounters in the U.S.

When I recently spoke with Troy Hearn, Kentucky Bicycle Pedestrian Program Coordinator, about the issue he didn't shy away. Troy, a long-time cyclist, knows firsthand there are trade offs to riding the great, low-traffic roads of rural Kentucky on routes like our TransAmerica Trail. "Truth is," he said, "dogs roam free on our country roads."

Going on numbers alone, Kentucky hosts the second-highest number of miles on the TransAm, so it's possible the reports are slightly skewed by vastness of Kentucky's roads and not just the nature of the communities that rest along them. While we have talked about the possibility of a reroute in Kentucky, it doesn't look promising. In order to retain the rural aspect of the route it isn't likely we'd find another set of roads that would be dramatically different in this respect.

All that being said, what should you do when you see Rover on the road ahead of you? There are many tactics you might employ, each with it's own positives and negatives, several of which are described in these articles recommended by Troy as resources: Dealing with Dogs and Cycling with Aggressive Dogs Around.

If you have a particularly scary encounter with a dog on one of our routes, please report it to us with as much information as you can about the location on a map correction card or to @acaroutes on Twitter with the route-specific hashtag. If we can pinpoint problem areas, we can alert future cyclists about these stretches via our online addenda system.

Photo from markstos's Flickr photostream: This is the kind of behavior traveling cyclists prefer in their dog encounters.

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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 the Adventure Cycling 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/2013/01/how-to-deal-with-dog-encounters.html

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Here?s what the future of cycling in London looks like

Last week, cycle campaigners up and down the UK, choked on their morning cup of coffee, in sheer shock, as TfL revealed their plans for extending Cycle Superhighway 2. The plans provide a glimpse in to the future of cycling in London. A future that cycle campaigners have been screaming for. It has to be [...]

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