Don’t Wait to Register! BTW Open Now
Registration for Bike To Work Week 2010 is now open. This popular
annual bike commuting celebration is packed with events and will take place May 16-22, 2010.
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Power 2 The Pedal: New Community Bike Shop Fosters A Love Of Cycling
Two dollars and seventeen cents. Even a super-part-time writer with a part-time day job can afford a bike tune-up for two dollars and seventeen cents. And even if I couldn’t, Pedals2People wouldn’t have turned me away. Bicycles are supposed to be the great equalizer for transportation, but without do-it-yourself know-how, they can cost a lot
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Everyday Cyclist: High Drive Trail Explosion
For walking or biking, I love the High Drive trails. The High Drive trails sprawl over the west and south sides of the bluff that climbs up to the South Hill from Latah Creek. I grew up on the lower South Hill in the ‘80s. Way back then, the area off High Drive had an
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Everyday Cyclist: The Palouse Unpaved
Most local road and racing cyclists ride the paved roads of the Palouse frequently. The Palouse Highway, Highway 27, Hangman, Spangle Creek and Valley Chapel roads are all well-known routes for road biking. What’s not so obvious about the Palouse, is that if you are willing to veer off the beaten path a bit, you
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Regional Businesses Make Bike-Friendly List
The Couer d’Alene office of J-U-B Engineers, a Boise-based civil engineering firm, was one of only three businesses in Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington recognized as Bicycle Friendly Businesses by the League of American Bicyclists. Mountain Gear in Spokane Valley and Rings & Things in Spokane also made the list. What qualified them? Shower facilities
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Newbie Trail Opens at Schweitzer
Schweitzer Mountain Resort has officially opened its new beginner downhill mountain bike trail, The Beargrass Trail. The 4-ft-wide beginner downhill trail rides six-and-a-half miles from summit to village at an average grade of 6%. For information on mountain bike rentals and biking events at Schweitzer, visit www.schweitzer.com or call 208.255.3081.
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What’s Your Gear? A Gearhead Signs Of
This summer marks my third anniversary as your loyal WYG columnist, and though I’ve enjoyed interviewing our local gearheads to share their tips, I will now be moving on to other OTM features. I could lie and say I wrote the column for so long in order to gain interviewing experience, or purely for the
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Let’s Finish The Centennial Trail
The groundbreaking ceremony of the Centennial Trail in 1989 marked a new chapter for spokane recreation, and a new vision for most of the Spokane River. The freshly paved ribbon of asphalt, albeit incomplete, initiated a swell in jogging, Rollerblading and bike riding in the Spokane area. In the same year as the Tiananmen Square
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Bike To Work Commute Challenge Results
It took a while to crunch the numbers but the Bike to Work Spokane results are in: For that reason we are recognizing teams in each category that recruited the highest percentage of new commuters, as well as high mileage totals. Unlike Commute Challenges in some other cities, we count biking for other transportation besides
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Bike To Work Workshops Start Tomorrow
Bike To Work Spokane party at the Steamplant Grill, 2008. // Photo Jeff Ferguson. If you’ve never biked to work before these classes are great way to start: Bike Workshops Scheduled Spokane, WA – Bike To Work Spokane’s commitment to bike education continues with four local bicycle workshops that are being presented as a prelude
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