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A great gift for the cyclist in your life is a Yay Bikes! membership. Only $25 a year helps strengthen our community and improve conditions for cyclists in Central Ohio and beyond.  #letsride Yay Bikes! members are a supportive group of experienced and beginner cyclists who explore the city together, teach one another and revel in the joy of bicycling. By joining Yay Bikes! today, you are strengthening our community and helping improve conditions for cyclists in Central Ohio and beyond. Your membership includes: 365 days of Yay Bikes! member benefits Free membership for your kids (under age 18) 12 free Year of Yay! rides Opportunities to participate in our  infrastructure review process Leadership and service opportunities Discounts on Bike the Cbus and other rides Exclusive updates and members-only events Surprises throughout the year Click here  to become a Yay Bikes! member, donate above the price of membership, give a one-time gift or become a sustaining donor!

NEW FOR 2015! Gravel, dirt-road and double track-exploring-longer touring-44mm tire clearance. More Choices, More Fun-Building off the Routt, we added longer chain stays to provide a stable platform and the compatibility for 45mm wide tires, opening the door to more and more mixed-surface miles. Durability-Designed and built to go capably where the roads get progressively rougher, the Routt 45 will perform for a lifetime. Versatile-23mm skinny tires to 44mm knobbies, paved road to rough two-track, this is the uber multi-tool of bike designs equipped with disc brakes. [See more at Moots]

Destination America del Sur - Argentine 2 from Charles Coderre on Vimeo . We now have been traveling by bike for the last 5 months in South America. Starting with Peru and Bolivia. We are now in Argentina and will still be until beginning of January. This video is about our journey through the Lagos region! www.chardenvelomonde.blogspot.ca Facebook: Charden Velomonde

Beneath the streets of Louisville, Kentucky, there lurks a monster. But this is no horror story, it’s one of dreams. Specifically, the wild dream to turn the largest cavern in the state of Kentucky into a multi-faceted business park that will soon be home to the largest  underground  bike park in the world. What sounds like an absolutely insane idea comes to us from co-owners of the Louisville Mega Cavern, Jim Lowry, Tom, and Don Tyler. After all, as Jim told us, their motto is “you have to be a little crazy.” Crazy doesn’t begin to describe the Mega Cavern itself. Opened in the 1930′s by Ralph Rogers as a limestone mine, the man-made structure had been mined 24 hours a day for 42 years straight. When the digging was complete it had left a massive cavern with 4 million sq. feet and over 17 miles of passage ways. Considered to be the largest building in the state of Kentucky, the decision to turn the Mega Cavern into a business park required the creation of new building codes due

(Megan Ann on Flickr Creative Commons) December 8, 2014   It's a chilly November morning, and just over a dozen members of a black women's bike group—there's an advocacy organization for everything in D.C.—are gathered in the basement of a public library in Northeast Washington. One woman came because she was scared off biking by an accident and wants to regain her confidence. Another was recently laid off and finally has the time to bike again. [Keep reading at National Journal]