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The Shenandoah 100 is an ultra-endurance 100 mile (162 km) mountain bike race held in central Western Virginia near Stokesville. The race is normally held on the Sunday during Labor Day weekend. The race has been run continuously since 1998. Field of wild flowers along the course near Little Bald Knob. The organizer, Shenandoah Mountain Touring ...
The TransAmerica Bicycle Trail began as the route for Bikecentennial, a mass bicycle tour across the country to celebrate the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976. The route was developed and mapped in the years preceding the event by volunteers and staff members of the organization Bikecentennial, which changed its name to Adventure Cycling Association in 1993.
The Adventure Cycling Association was at that time also known as the "Bikecentennial." [3] USBR 76 was established in 1982 as an original U.S. Bicycle Route, along with U.S. Bicycle Route 1 from Florida to Virginia. Bicycle traffic along a good deal of Bicycle Route 76 has been sparse to practically non-existent for several years.
Injured Veterans to Cycle 325 Miles from Arlington to Virginia Beach for the 2013 Memorial Ride 2 Recovery Challenge Injured active duty and retired military members to ride hand cycles ...
Written by longtime National Geographic contributor Roff Smith (with a foreward by Olympic XC rider and World Champion Kate Courtney), 100 Bike Rides of a Lifetime is broken into three parts: the ...
Tour of Virginia was a men's road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Virginia from 2003 to 2007. In 2007, the Tour was renamed from the Tour of Shenandoah . The race was part of USA Cycling National Racing Calendar .
The first incarnation of RAAM, The Great American Bike Race, was organized by John Marino in 1982. There were four competitors: John Marino himself, John Howard, Michael Shermer, and Lon Haldeman. The course started in Santa Monica, California and finished at the Empire State Building in New York City, where Haldeman emerged as the winner.
The Adventure Cycling Route Network now consists of over 52,000 miles and is the largest bicycle route network in North America. [6] Since 2014, the annual Trans Am Bike Race has used basically the same route as that used for the Bikecentennial.