If there's one bike tour that's a must-do, it's this mountainous Colorado cruise. The best part? You don't need to be an endurance freak to finish.
Big Bear Lake is emerging as a biking mecca with a good cycling scene.
Italy was made for biking -- as long as you can handle the hills! The friendly Italian people, varied landscapes, world-famous cuisine, and villages frozen since antiquity make each day of cycling a new adventure.
Nestled in the heart of the Green Mountains of Vermont is a cluster of mountain pass roads. It is truly an epic ride, one that rivals the toughest one-day organized rides in the mountains out west. There’s great scenery out here, from open lush grazing valleys, rushing mountain streams, and vistas from several of the gap summits.
Ride all of the Pyrenean cols and stage endings of the 2011 Tour de France and cheer the professionals by the roadside at the Plateau de Beille.
Here are some of the more popular routes.
Exploring the bakeries, ferry crossings, and waterfront parks of the Chesapauke Bay's shoreline.
The 28-mile Burke-Gilman Trail is one of Seattle's most beloved biking route.
Bicycling is extremely popular in the Provence region. The French are avid cyclers anyway, from weekend family outings and hundreds, or maybe thousands, of cycling clubs, to the world-famous Tour de France race.
Twenty-nine cyclists have signed on for this tour through the Vermont countryside. The setting is almost impossibly idyllic, from the grazing sheep in Grafton where the tour begins, to the signs advertising sweet corn and maple syrup along the long, gradual ascent to Killington, to the perfectly manicured village green in Woodstock.
When planned well, a multi-day bicycle trip provides a good deal of leisure time. So what’s it take to get started?
Last year I visited Italy. It's a special country with so many attractions that I don't know how to start writing about my trip.
The Cow Palace in San Francisco on the morning of the opening ceremonies of Aids Lifecycle 6 was alive with the sounds of 2,300 energized cyclists cheering triumphantly after it was announced we had raised over eleven million dollars to fight AIDS.
The Tiburon Loop bike ride is one of the most popular rides in the San Francisco area, pleasant and rolling, with very little traffic once you pass through downtown Tiburon. You can also take the ferry back from Tiburon to San Francisco, which many cyclists do on this route. The ride features maybe the craziest descent in the area, on Conzelman Road. Civilization level is high, and traffic is light except going through Sausalito and into Tiburon.
On numerous trips to San Francisco in the past several years, I found the Presidio to be ideal for daily fitness cycling or just a leisurely ride within the city limits.
