Archive for the 'Touring' Category (Page 4)


  • Wheels for Wells

    Wheels for Wells

    Wheels for Wells is a cross-country bike tour to raise money for clean drinking water in Africa. It passes through Kansas July 12-18. If you're looking for a fun and meaningful tour for this summer, check it out.

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  • Bicycling the Santa Fe Trail

    Bicycling the Santa Fe Trail

    The Santa Fe Trail Bicycle Trek rolled out of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on September 13th, heading northeast along roughly the same route as the old Santa Fe Trail. The riders will pass through Kansas and arrive in New Franklin, Missouri on September 20th.

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  • Live BAK Tweets

    Live BAK Tweets

    Follow along with Biking Across Kansas riders as they post their progress (in words and pictures) on Twitter.

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  • Biking Across Kansas Suffers a Casualty

    Biking Across Kansas Suffers a Casualty

    Sad news from Biking Across Kansas, where news reports indicate that one of the riders died from a "medical condition" suffered near the Colorado border on Friday afternoon. More details as they emerge...

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  • Biking Across Kansas 2009 Preview

    Biking Across Kansas 2009 Preview

    Today, more than 800 riders are converging on the town of Syracuse to begin their week-long journey across the Sunflower State by bicycle! Here's a preview of their trek, and tips on how you can follow their progress online.

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  • A Roll-Your-Own Cross-State Bicycle Tour

    A Roll-Your-Own Cross-State Bicycle Tour

    For a state with such great natural beauty, it's a shame that Arkansas has no organized cross-state bicycle tour. But this Spring, several riders from the Arkansas Bicycle Club decided to design and ride their own little Tour de Arkansas. Here's their story.

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  • Biking Across Kansas Jerseys

    Biking Across Kansas Jerseys

    In honor of their 35th year, Biking Across Kansas, the annual bicycle tour across the state of Kansas, is offering a Biking Across Kansas ‘09 jersey for only $60. Order by March 30th.

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  • Biking Across Kansas 2009 Route Announced

    Biking Across Kansas 2009 Route Announced

    Biking Across Kansas, the annual week-long supported tour across the Sunflower State, has announced their 2009 route, which runs across the central portion of the state, from Syracuse in the west to Louisburg in the east, for a total of just over 500 miles, June 6-13, 2009.

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  • Music from an Epic Bicycle Tour

    Music from an Epic Bicycle Tour

    15 years ago, Irene Schroeder undertook a monumental journey: a 20,000 mile, 16-month-long bike trip from the northernmost part of Alaska to the lower tip of South America. “I learned not only to push myself but find my connection with nature or my moment with God,” Schroeder, who at the time …

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  • Oklahoma Teen Takes up Bicycle Touring

    Oklahoma Teen Takes up Bicycle Touring

    For 19-year-old Greg Merkel, it was time to try something extraordinary: a bicycle tour from Edmond, Oklahoma to Santa Monica, California in the fall of 2008. Read his story here.

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