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Ride for Pete's Sake! at a glance Ride Date: Saturday, August 15, 2009 (no rain date) Location: Hilliard Heritage Middle School, 5670 Scioto Darby Road, in Hilliard Ohio Check-in Time: 7:15 - 9:00 a.m. Ride: The ride will include marked routes for all ability levels Choice of routes: ride 7, 18, 35, 48, 62, 80, or 100 miles. All routes include stops with food and water. S.A.G. support along the routes Prizes: Door Prizes and more! Pedal-with-Pete Bike Jersey - available now and on ride day Schedule of Events (tentative) Goal: Raise funds for Cerebral Palsy research Ride for Pete's Sake! Registration Advance Registration: $25.00 Day of ride registration: $30.00 Children under 18: $10.00 First 400 riders to register receive a free “Ride, for Pete's Sake” T-shirt! Pre-registrations accepted until Sunday, August 9! Checks payable to Pedal-with-Pete Fill out and mail your registration with check to: Pedal-with-Pete, Inc. 163 Westwood Rd Columbus, OH 43214 OR, Pre-regis...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—A Newark man was indicted on four charges after he allegedly struck a bicyclist in Hilliard. NBC 4 reported with the FAST FACTS. Edward S. Miller, 28, of Newark was indicted on two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and two counts of OMVI Wednesday. The crash happened at about 6 a.m. Saturday, July 18 on Cemetery Road in Hilliard. Authorities said Miller was driving a pickup truck and Steven Barbour, 51, was riding a bicycle westbound on Cemetery Road and Norwich Street. Miller allegedly hit Barbour and originally was charged with aggravated vehicular assault, a third-degree felony. Authorities said Miller’s blood-alcohol content was .109 when the crash happened. Barbour died from his injuries at OSU Medical Center Main Tuesday, July 21. The two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide are second-degree felony charges. The two counts of OMVI are misdemeanor charges. He was arraigned and given a $5,000 cash surety bond and a $20,000 appearance bond for a total bond of...

When: Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 Start Time: Assemble at 8:30 a.m. Ride starts promptly at 9:00 a.m. Where: Heritage Trailhead Parking Lot, Downtown Hilliard' OH Refreshments Following Ride: Dutch Kitchen Restaurant, Rt. 42, Plain City -11:00 a.m. We have been able to obtain a permit from the City of Hilliard to conduct a ride in memory of our friend, Steve Barbour, who died as a result of the injuries he sustained when he was hit by a drunken driver on Cemetery Road, July 18th, 2009. The ride, escorted by the Hilliard Police, will proceed from the Heritage Trailhead to Cemetery Rd. where we will have a short ceremony and where we will place a "ghost bike" in Steve's memory. The ride will turn around at the Hilliard Plaza Shopping Center and return to the trailhead. We encourage participants to join the family at the Dutch Kitchen on Rt. 42, Plain City, after the ride. You may ride to the Dutch Kitchen or drive. Steve's family, will host the event at t...

We will be selling this limited edition t-shirt designed by Liz Samuelson from Genuine Creative. Email me at rgeorge@bikethecbus.com if you interested.

What is BikeFest? BikeFest is Pittsburgh’s biggest cycling event for cyclists by cyclists. It’s BikePGH’s annual celebration of bicycling, showcasing Pittsburgh in all of its uniqueness and beauty. It is not an organized event, but a framework for volunteers and organizations to organize bicycle-themed events. Whether you ride everyday, the weekends, or just always wanted to try, BikeFest has an event for you! Pittsburgh is filled with interesting things to see and do, and there is no better way to experience the city than on a bicycle. So we decided to celebrate the two to both raise awareness of the bike as a fun, healthy, and environmentally friendly way to get around, and to highlight some of the amazing things Pittsburgh has to offer. There are a wide variety of bikers and organizations in this city and if we can all get to know one another, we’ll be able to make Pittsburgh a more bike friendly and livable city. the site...

Sunday Night Ladies Ride is every Sunday Night! find out more on Facebook

Nothing about the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge is small. Not the signature route of the enduring bicycle tour: 192 miles from Sturbridge to Cape Cod. Not the number of riders who participate: 5,000 this year (from 36 states and eight countries) and 59,000 since 1980. And certainly not the money the bike-athon has contributed toward making the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston a world leader in the fight against the disease: $270 mil- lion in 30 years. "The PMC has made what we do at Dana-Farber possible," said Dr. Edward J. Benz Jr., president of the 62-year-old cancer-research center and hospital. Which is why the PMC is what central Ohio's budding Pelotonia Tour wants to be when it grows up. more...

Check out the new website... www.bikethecbus.com - very cool features. Our non-profit partner, the Eldon and Elsie Ward Family YMCA is providing online registration for the event this year. http://www.ymcacolumbus.org/ward/ward_news.php#1014 If you are on Facebook please become a fan of both the blog http://www.facebook.com/pages/Columbus-Rides-Blog/56544341141?ref=ts and the event ">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bike-the-C-Bus-Bicycle-tour-of-Columbus-Ohio/42668587010 and let us know you will be riding ">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=42337481818&ref=ts and follow us on Twitter. http://twitter.com/bikethecbus

Date: Saturday August 15, 2009 Time: 7:00 am - 9:00 am Location: New Albany Elementary School Street: 87 N. High Street City State Zip: New Albany, OH Notes: Saturday, August 15 7:00-9AM. New Albany Elementary School, 87 N. High Street, New Albany. Ride the ridges on routes of 30/55/80/100 miles. Short route has three hills; longer routes have many more. Budget Tour. $2 members, $4 non-members. Joanna Pallos Jootbuck@aol.com 614-868-6875 Tom and Debbie Davis bikeus700x23@columbus.rr.com 614-296-9981 Mark Curtner mcurtner@columbus.rr.com

BOSTON — In a city known for its aggressive drivers, flummoxing street layout, confusing rotaries and overall rudeness on the road, what is a cyclist to do? more...

Our five-year strategy Our strategy 2008-13 LCC's latest five-year strategy document, entitled One in Five by 2025, covers the period 2008-2013. It outlines specific activities and targets in pursuit of our vision. You can download the full strategy and a summary of this document on the right. The list of objectives below form the core of LCC's strategic direction for the next five years: Promote cycling to the people Many people are slow to realise the benefits of cycling, so we must skilfully make them see them. Redesign our streets for cycles Our streets and neighbourhoods need to be redesigned to be more cycle-friendly. Promote cycling to our politicians We must promote the facts, that cycling is cheap and provides a solution to five great public policy concerns for London. Make cycling diverse and inclusive Equality and inclusion are two key LCC values, and are central to our plan to make London a cycling city. the site...

Since the early 1980s, David has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them with him when travelling around the world. DB's choice was initially made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and the sense of liberation, exhilaration, and connection it provided. This point of view, from his bike seat, became his panoramic window on urban life, a magical way of opening one’s eyes to the inner workings and rhythms of a city’s geography and population. more...

Wednesday September 16th 12:00pm Coloring Contest Opening at Ska Brewing 3:00pm Hermosa Tours Shuttle, Champion Down, 25 spots 4:15pm Hermosa Tours Shuttle, Champion Down, 25 spots 5-6:00pm Group ride from Durango Rec Center 8:00pm Post Ride BeerBQ at Seanʼs House 10:00pm Live Music at Derail Saloon Thursday September 17th 8:00am Hermosa Tours Shuttle, Blackhawk-Hermosa, 25 spots 9:00am Group ride from Fort Lewis College clock tower 10:00-2pm Lunch Party/Registration at Buckley Park 3:00pm Hermosa Tours Shuttle, Champion Down, 25 spots 4:15pm Hermosa Tours Shuttle, Champion Down, 25 spots 4:00-7pm Run What You Brung Bike Show at The Irish Embassy 6:00pm Group ride from Durango Cyclery 6:00pm Ladies ride from Durango Cyclery 9:00pm Live Music at Derail Saloon Friday September 18th 8:00am Hermosa Tours Shuttle, Champion Down, 25 spots 9:15am Hermosa Tours Shuttle, Champion Down, 25 spots 7-10:00am Pancake breakfast at Buckley Park by Sol Cycles 9:00am Group ride/ race course pre ride fro...

Orphaned bikes piling up in COTA garage might go to charity Monday, August 3, 2009 3:07 AM BY JOHN FUTTY THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH SHARI LEWIS | DISPATCH Nearly 100 bicycles are in COTA's bus garage after being left on bus racks. In five years, fewer than 100 have been claimed out of 400 left behind. Since COTA started putting bicycle racks on the front of all its buses nearly five years ago, hundreds of people have left their bikes behind after riding the bus. Some are nice enough that one would expect the owners to come looking for them. When they don't, the Central Ohio Transit Authority is left wondering what to do: trash them, sell them or give them away? "This is a problem for us," President Bill Lhota said recently as he surveyed nearly 100 bicycles hanging on or leaning against a wall in the bus garage at COTA's headquarters. Some are old and battered, but others are new and well-maintained. Ed Sowinski, a transportation supervisor for COTA, estimated that 40...

After two days of intense packing that resulted in our two bikes and our trailer being stuffed into two very duct-taped boxes, we made it to Port Columbus and are waiting to a flight to.....Minneapolis? Yeah, that's right. ... the blog is here... follow their antics.

EveryoneBIKES.org is an experiment designed to help communities create bike shares through retailer and advertiser partnerships. Our retailers provide the bikes to riders via a simple transaction. Riders can take a bike, run errands, visit the various retailers throughout our neighborhood, stop and enjoy food/drink/shopping and return the bike for others to enjoy. Super. Simple. Our pilot here in the Short North community of Columbus, OH will evolve over time but our goal today is to prove that communities can provide a safe, cost-effective transportation alternative cooperative to communities. Eventually, we'd like to move beyond the Short North and have communities throughout the US adopt our idea. Want to do a bike-share in your community? Take our idea and make it yours. And keep us posted on how things work out. the site is here... sign up to get your bike on!