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Find Local Bicycle Events in Your Area

biking4women — Sun, 01 May 2011 00:50:40 +0000

It’s been a while since I posted to my blog page and even longer since I rode my bicycle. That’s changed this week. I rode for the first time in many months this past week and I LOVED it!! There’s nothing better than a good bike ride to clear your head and let all the stress go. I participated in my 3rd March for Babies event, which turned out to be a 6 mile walk today and was thinking it would be cool to find local bicycling events for charity or just for fun. After searching high and low, I’ve found a couple of really good websites that has this type of information that I wanted to share with you. During my research, I did find that just about each state has a bicycling events website, so if you are looking for your specific state for events you shouldn’t have too much trouble finding one. These websites I found are to find events anywhere in the US. If you know of any that I missed, please let us know by posting a comment on this blog post.

BikeRide.com – This website has on-going series events as well as events broken down by month. Each event has date, name, location and type. Click on the event name to see the details including cost, if any, contact information and a website link, if available.
BikingBis.com – This website has a lot of charity bicycle events listed and links to check out the charity you will be riding for.

There’s nothing better than combining bicycling with a charity event, so get out there and get registered for your local events.

Cindy

Cycle For Life – Florida – October 30, 2010

biking4women — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:53:49 +0000

Get your wheels in motion and register today at CF Cycle For Life. The Eurand CF Cycle For Life presented by BJ’s Restaurant registration fee is $35 until September 30th, then for the month of October it goes up to $45. There is a minimum pledge amount of $200 that is due on or before October 30, 2010, to earn a long-sleeved official event t-shirt. If you raise more money and you’ll have a chance to earn an official event jersey and other great prizes.

Here’s the details:

Saturday, October 30
Longleaf Town Center 3104 Town Ave. New Port Richey, FL 34655
Check-in opens at 8:00 a.m.
Routes of 25 miles, 55 miles and 85 miles available
Route opens at 9:00 a.m.

If you don’t ride a bicycle, there are volunteer positions available and they need 75 volunteers for this event. Every volunteer will receive a t-shirt designating them as a volunteer at the event. Training will be provided prior to October 30. For more info, please contact Pat Warbritton at 813-374-9041 or email pwarbritton@cff.org.

Ride, live, have fun!!

Cindy

Marin Bicycles for Women

biking4women — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:28:57 +0000

I found another bicycle manufacturer that makes Women specific models – Marin Bikes.

Here’s their story:

Marin Bikes was established in 1986 in San Anselmo, California and celebrates its 24th anniversary this year. Its offices lie in the shadow of Mt. Tamalpais, commonly referred to as the birthplace of mountain biking and still at the heart of the sport. On advice from his doctor, founder Robert Buckley rode a mountain bike to help heal a nagging knee injury and quickly became passionate about the sport. He founded Marin Mountain Bikes upon this passion and remains dedicated to the pursuit of the ultimate cycling experience. After 24 years Buckley remains at the helm of Marin, directing daily operations and is the creative drive behind the brand. According to Buckley, ‘After more than 20 years of business, we haven’t lost sight of our core values. I am committed to building a bicycle that is light-weight, durable and designed to give riders the highest quality ride for years to come. I’m proud of what this company has become.’

Since its founding, Marin has built its strong reputation upon a number of technological advancements including:

Lightweight Hardtail Mountain Bikes, utilizing state of the art titanium, carbon, aluminum and steel materials combined with cutting edge frame technology
Quad-Link Full Suspension Mountain Bikes, a proprietary technology enabling the most effective and reactive suspension system available today
Performance Oriented Flat Bar Road Bikes meld the comfortable style of a mountain bike with the light weight aerodynamics of a road bike
City and Urban Bikes, clearly leading the industry and setting the standards for performance and design

Marin Mountain Bikes first established its reputation with high performance mountain bikes. Today, the company offers a comprehensive line of nearly 90 bikes for all skill levels and preferences, in the Mountain Biking, Road Cycling, City, and Juvenile categories.

Marin’s employees continue to ride the same trails and experience the same emotions that gave birth to the sport of mountain biking when it first began. Marin’s products include bikes, bike accessories and clothing, and are distributed by independent bicycle dealerships throughout the United States and 46 other countries.

Marin Bikes offers a wide selection of bicycles that are designed to meet the needs of female cyclists including: Mountain HT, Road, Street and Path. You can check out all their women specific bicycles here: http://www.marinbikes.com/2010/bike_cat_women.php

You can use their Dealer Locator to find one closest to your location here: http://www.marinbikes.com/dealerlocator/map_usa_2010.php

Cindy

Event: Cycling for Autism

biking4women — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:33:37 +0000

Date: Friday, October 9, 2009
Location: Plainfield, CT
Type: Touring
Email: chasnan@att.net
Phone: 860-564-4443

This event is a fundraiser for children in the Autism Spectrum in the greater Plainfield area.

AM Adult Cycling with Velo Club Challenge on a separate 32 mile route. Ribbons and prizes for first finishers. All rides are fast and smooth on a well marked, low traffic course. Kids program is at 10 am to promote fun riding and bike safety.

Ride, Live, Have fun!!

Cindy

Group Bike Ride, Ocala, FL – Thursday Nights

biking4women — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:57:10 +0000

If you want to go bike riding with a group that includes first-timers, beginners and intermediate riders then this is the ride for you. This ride is also good if you are new to the area and would like a tour of the Santos trails just to get acquainted with them.

It’s a good mix of girls and guys just out to enjoy bike riding. We meet at the Santos Bike Shop on Hwy 441 in Ocala every Thursday. We leave out at 6 pm so it’s best to get there about 15 minutes early if you can.

For Directions to the Santos Bike Shop, go to: http://www.santosbikeshop.com/faq.asp

Cindy

12 Hours of Dauset – September 19, 2009

biking4women — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:53:50 +0000

Event: 12 Hours of Dauset, from 10 am to 10 pm
Date: September 19, 2009
Place: Dauset Trails Nature Center in Jackson, Georgia (http://www.dausettrails.com/)

Team and Solo Competition

Schedule:
Friday – 12 noon race packet pickup and late registration (if available) / Open riding & camping
Saturday – 8 am race packet pickup (no day of entries) / 10 am to 10 pm Team Race / Camping Available
** Up to 4 people teams, any rotation

Awards:
12 hour solo overall purse – 1st $200 / 2nd $150 / 3rd $100
12 hour solo female purse – 1st $100 / 2nd $75 / 3rd $50
** All other classes will receive prizes and awards to the top three.

Click here for more info and driving directions.

Good luck!

Ride, live, have fun!!

Cindy

2009 Florida State Championship Series

biking4women — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:51:17 +0000

For $60,000 in Cash and Prizes and I figured this series is worth mentioning. Here’s the schedule:

#1 – September 12 & 13 – Gainesville, FL
#2 – September 27 – Fernandina Beach, FL
#3 – October 11 – Lithia, FL
#4 – October 17 & 18 – Tallahassee, FL
#5 – November 8 – North Miami, FL
#6 – November 15 – Alva, FL
#7 – November 29 – Alachua, FL
#8 – December 13 – Ocala, FL

For more information, go to: http://www.goneriding.com/EVENTS.htm

Good luck to everyone!!

Ride, live, have fun!!

Cindy

New York Bicycle Dealers

biking4women — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:06:21 +0000

I’ve added 8 New York Bicycle Dealers to this page: http://www.biking4women.com/nydealers.asp with links to their websites if they had one that I could find.

Do you know of any other bicycle dealers in New York that I can / need to add?

Send me an email: info@biking4women.com

260-Mile Bicycle Trail in Florida

biking4women — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:29:04 +0000

Five Florida counties are developing a 260-mile bicycle trail through northeastern and Central Florida. This includes Volusia, Flagler, Brevard, Putnam and St. Johns counties. It’s call the River-to-the-Sea Loop and it could be complete in 2013. When done, it will be the longest bicycle loop in Florida.

More than 40 miles have been completed on ths project that started in February 2008. They hope to finish the project by 2013, in time to help mark the quincentennial celebration of Florid’s discovery by Ponce De Leon.

Cyclists who ride the trail are expected to help Florida’s tourism economy by staying in hotels and eating in restaurants along the route.

Ride, live, have fun!

Cindy

Santos Trail, Spiders Are Back

biking4women — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:18:36 +0000

I’ve had a cold that got into my lungs over the past 3 weeks that made it very difficult for me to ride and breath at the same time. If you have Asthma, you know what I’m talking about. But I’m back at biking as of today. Here’s a couple pictures:

My favorite part of the Canopy Trail – a big open field with a few trees – beautiful!!

Next, we have the spiders – they’re back!! If you don’t like ‘em, don’t look up when riding. They are just above your head in most cases. A few weeks ago I got one right in my face!!

Banana Spiders mostly. I don’t think they bite or anything but they do make some huge webs.

Ride, live, have fun!!

Cindy