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KEEPING YOUR CLUB CONNECTED TO THE BICYCLE TRAVEL SOURCE
Dear BIKES,
As the days start to get longer, Adventure Cycling hopes that you are finding more time to get out and ride. This issue contains some great articles and tidbits for your winter newsletters and websites:
· Safety resources · Free maps · Top rides · Adventure Cycling Links
Ride On!
Amy Corbin Club Coordinator
SAFETY FIRST!
For cyclists everywhere, safety is always an issue. The Tacoma Wheelmen’s (www.twbc.org) newsletter, The Cog-nitive Courier, recently started a new feature, Safe Psychiling, which is a collection of tips from www.bicyclesafe.com. These tips are clearly written, with great explanations and small graphics as well. They cover many of the common traffic issues and decisions that cyclists face all the time. With a really friendly reprint policy, these would also make a great addition to your own club newsletter. So, the next time you are looking for some safety tips, check out www.bicyclesafe.com.
STILL TIME TO GET A FREE COPY OF OUR LEWIS AND CLARK MAP
SET FOR YOUR CLUB In 2007, Adventure Cycling received a grant from the National Park Service to update, reprint and distribute our Lewis & Clark Bicycle Route maps, originally created to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the epic journey of Meriwether Lewis & William Clark. Our maps give turn-by-turn directions, include information about cultural interests and natural history, interpretive information and the location of bike shops, grocery stores, camp sites, motels and libraries and more — all services cyclists look for while on a bicycle tour.
Thanks to the National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Program, Adventure Cycling will be giving away 275 of the eight-map sets.
These map sets would make an excellent addition to your clubs lending library or resource center. As an Adventure Cycling member club, we invite you to order one of the free Lewis & Clark Bicycle Trail route sets. Simply follow the link http://www.adventurecycling.org/store/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=68, choose Member Price $66.00 and complete the shipping form with your name and address. In the space marked "Coupon or Certificate Code" you must type in GT-0001 to receive your free map set.*
*Limited to stock hand of the 275 original map sets. Only one per club. No exchanges or refunds will be offered.
TEN TOP RIDES Get out there and ride!
By Michael McCoy, Adventure Cycling Field Editor
Got a week? If the answer is yes, we’ve got your next cycling destination. Ten of them, in fact. In the first of what will be an annual feature, the January 2008 issue of Adventure Cyclist served up the inaugural “Ten Top Touring Areas”, a feature-length look at ten of the finest riding destinations in North America. With general descriptions of weeklong rides and a list of key contacts for each area, it’s an invaluable planning aid for bicycle-adventure hounds everywhere.
From a rugged ramble along the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, to a seaside joyride down the West Coast of California, to epic descents in Now Hampshire’s White Mountains, there are mouth-watering rides in every corner of the continent described by area experts and illustrated with spectacular images from some of cycling’s top photographers.
The full article is available online at www.adventurecycling.org/tentoptours.
THE RESOURCE JACKPOT!
Just a quick reminder - Adventure Cycling’s on-line archive contains articles, clip art, past issues of Bike Bits and more for you to peruse and use. Go to www.adventurecycling.org/library to check out the goods!
· to provide you with industry information and graphics to share with your members and · to connect your club with others from around the country for your benefit.
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