Archive for January, 2011


  • Kansas Trail News: January 28, 2011

    Kansas Trail News: January 28, 2011

    Kansas Trail News for January 28, 2011 from Sunflower Recreational Trails: Trolley Track Trail Reopens, 150th Anniversary Of Founding Of Kansas, Daniel Boone In Kansas, New Secretary Of Wildlife And Parks Selected, Tourism Division Merges With KDWP, Wildlands Philanthropy, Leavenworth Trails Network Expands, RTC Celebrates 25th Anniversary

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  • Biking Across Kansas 2011 Route Announced

    Biking Across Kansas 2011 Route Announced

    Biking Across Kansas, the annual week-long supported tour across the Sunflower State, has announced their 2011 route, which runs from Tribune in the west to La Cygne in the east, for a total of about 474 miles, June 4-11, 2011.

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  • New Hope For Lifting the De Soto Bike Ban?

    New Hope For Lifting the De Soto Bike Ban?

    The De Soto Bike Ban has been an embarrassment for the city and the state for more than a decade, but turnover on the city council brings renewed hope that this repugnant bike ban will finally be lifted.

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  • Emporia To Focus On Bicycle Tourism

    Emporia To Focus On Bicycle Tourism

    The Flint Hills, that vast expanse of native tallgrass prairie in east-central Kansas, is a growing mecca for cyclists, and Emporia, which bills itself as the 'Front Porch to the Flint Hills', is planning to focus on cyclo-tourism in the coming year.

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  • Vintage Kansas Cyclists: Shaw Motorized Bicycles

    Vintage Kansas Cyclists: Shaw Motorized Bicycles

    Turns out the concept of motorized bicycles is nothing new, and at one time a Kansas company, the Shaw Manufacturing Co. of Galesburg, Kansas, was at the forefront of innovation, marketing a motorized bicycle kit as early as 1903.

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