Summer Cycling Auction Starts Today!

I am sitting at my computer in the Adventure Cycling office, but I have not actually done anything since I came in at 7 this morning. Why might that be? Because I am glued to the Bidding for Good site, watching the first few hours of action on our Summer Cycling Auction.

It's fascinating to watch people battle it out for the top bid on some of these items, while others haven't gotten any hits at all yet. I'm even a little tempted to take advantage of the "Buy Now" feature on one of these tour slots. Now, I know that the bidding won't really heat up until Friday, at the end of the auction, but in the meantime I am enjoying watching the drama unfold.

A. Alfred Taubman, the father of the modern shopping mall, said of commerce, ?God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.? In a minimal way, while watching these actions play out on cyberspace, I agree with him.

So I salute you, bidders of Adventure Cycling's Summer Cycling auction, for lending some theater to my work week!

Now get out there and enter the scrum!

June 18th through 22nd, Adventure Cycling Association is offering its members and the general public something new and exciting -- the opportunity to bid on fantastic tour spots, bike-specific art, and even a wine tasting -- in our first annual Summer Cycling Auction! Log on to Bidding for Good.com to register as a bidder and visit our auction to start bidding.


Funds raised will support the reroute of the eastern Montana and North Dakota sections of the Northern Tier and Lewis & Clark routes due to safety concerns, and will support the research and development of Bicycle Route 66!


All images provided by Auction-prize donors.


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SUPPORT ADVENTURE CYCLING is written by Alex Campbell, development assistant for Adventure Cycling Association.

Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2012/06/auction-update-bid-now.html

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