General

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Cycle events west of the rockies

Sites for Specific Events

This section has these subsections:

sites in support of racing events
sites in support of touring events
sites in support of conferences
miscellany

Racing Events

1996 BikeRayce: A "bikerayce" is a race of hybrid solar electric/human powered bicycles. This site tells all about the 1996 bikerayce held in Neosho MO from May 22 to May 26. This page hasn't been updated for awhile, but look for information on future events eventually.
[Updated August 13, 1997.]
Boston Brevet Series: "The Boston Brevets are a series of long distance cycling events which are also training and qualifying rides for other randonneuring events such as Boston-Montreal-Boston (BMB, August 13-16, 1998) and Paris-Brest-Paris (summer of 1999)."
[Added May 22, 1998.]
Boston-Montreal-Boston: If you can ride 750 miles in 90 hours or less, have $250 to pony up for registration, and have qualified by riding various other ultra rides, you, too, can compete in this premier American radonnee. In 1998, it will be held August 13-16; entry deadline is August 1.
[Added January 1, 1998.]
1996 Collegiate Track Nationals: Held in Seattle (well, actually Redmond) on September 3-5, 1996. Results are available.
[Updated September 25, 1996.]
Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival: 1999 will mark the 17th annual event, which is always full by the time you get around to thinking about participating. You can still read about it, FWIW. Next year for sure. It's held in September.
[Updated April 4, 1999.]
Crocodile Trophy '98: "Crocodile Trophy is the world's longest and hardest bike adventure: 2000 km from Alice Springs (Australia) to Kuranda. Next Trophy starts on August 30, 1998."
[Added February 9, 1998. Submitted by Regina Stanger.]
1998 Cycle Messenger World Championships: Hosted by the District of Columbia Bicycle Messengers Association, September 4-7.
[Added March 9, 1998.]
DuTriSports: cycling, duathlon and triathlon event organizer and informational site; [Added: January 28, 2001. ]
D'Woodville Loop: A road race and recreational tour on March 6, 1998, crossing the border from Louisiana into Missippi and back.
[Added December 5, 1998.]
1998 European Cycle Messenger Championships: In Graz, Austria, May 30-June 1.
[Added March 9, 1998.]
1998 HP International Womens Challenge: "The site currently offers detailed information about the upcoming race, a monthly sweepstakes, weekly training tips from professional cyclists, interviews, etc. The site will also carry actual race photos and footage from June 16-21, during the race itself." Deep content. I particularly enjoyed this snippet from the feature article section:
It was one of the rare crashes in the IWC. The year was 1995. Olympian Alison Dunlap wrecked badly, landing face first on the road. Her body was bloodied and bruised. The pavement had claimed skin and teeth. There the medical staff - volunteers from the local clinic - tended to her road rash. They removed gravel from her skin and performed three root canals. Dunlap, shaken but not slowed, competed that night in the Criterium.
[Added March 29, 1998.]
Iditasport: "Iditasport is an Alaskan Human Powered Ultra-Race with four different divisions: Ski, Bike, Foot, and Snowshoe." This site is both for the event, which takes place each year in February, and for the associated supported tour company that puts it on.
[Added April 14, 1998.]
Internet Tour de France Game: A unique and wonderful gift to the online Tour (TIOOYK) enthusiast: "The Internet Tour de France Game 1997 is a free competition organized on Internet in which participants attempt to predict the results of the stages... Each participant selects a team of fifteen cyclists and the team members will earn points when they finish in the top ten of a stage. The participant with the team that has collected the largest number of points after the Tour de France will be the winner of this game... Yes, there will be a 1998 edition of the game."
[Added March 23, 1998.]
Italian Mountain Bike International Cup: This site, all Italian language, is for from this mountain biking event held from June 12 to 21 on the Amiata Mountains in central Italy. Good graphics, but our Italian is not good enough to comment further.
[Added May 18, 1998.]
Le Tour de Lankawi: An annual road race, held for the first time in 1996, in Malaysia. Very well-done page, being reimplemented for the 1998 tour at this writing.
[Updated Febuary 11, 1998.]
La Legende du Velo: Held in Geneva on October 29, 1996, with Rominger, Obree, and other famous riders in attendence.
[Updated January 1, 1998.]
1997 Minnesota State Championship Series (The Salsa Series): Eight NORBA-sanctioned off-road races in Minnesota, sponsored by Chi-Chi's. The results are here.
[Added January 1, 1998.]
Platte Bridge Station Stage Race: "Wyoming's largest bike race." Open to USCF Category 1 and 2, 3, 4, Women Open, Women 3-4, Tandems, Masters 35-44, Masters 45+ as well as citizen racers. Held Memorial Day weekend 1996, but still up at this writing.
[Updated January 1, 1998.]
RAAM Online: RAAM is the Race Across AMerica, an annual ultramarathon west-to-east crossing of the United States. The 1998 edition is the 17th thereof, reportedly the flattest and best-supported ever. Unfortunately for the riders, it's also a southerly route, with many miles in hot-hot Texas. It started on July 23rd. Check this site for results, history, and background information. You can download the route book in PDF.
[Added July 27, 1998.]
Road Cycling World Championship 1996: It all ended on October 13, 1996, but the results are here.
[Updated January 1, 1998.]
Ronde van Nederland 1997: Really good-looking, professional, quite complete site describing the Netherland's premier bicycle racing event, entirely in Dutch. The 1997 RvN-- the 37th-- starts on "26 augustus."
[Added August 13, 1997.]
Southeastern Race Series: "The Southeastern Race Series is a year-long series of road cycling events across the Southeast [United States]. We offer a prize list of $5000 for the top 3 in the following categories: Pro/1/2, Cat. 3/ Women/Juniors/ Masters 35+." The calendar, the 1997 rankings, results, and boilerplate are all here. The series continues into October in 1998.
[Added June 10, 1998.]
Tour de France: At this writing, good information on the 1997 race, a map and list of stages for the 1998 race (which starts July 11 and ends August 2), and a promise of good coverage during the 1998 event. Recently resited.
[Updated May 7, 1998.]
Tour de France (1994): Not much here any longer save a few links to other related information and a tar archive of the pages.
[Updated January 1, 1998.]
Tour de France: Le Site Officiel: "Live news with the results of the day's stage. You can also subscribe to a mailing list in order to receive your daily Tour de France postcard (with the major events of the day's stage) both in English and French." Intensely slick design, too. Whew! Also, the same content on another server.
[Updated May 22, 1998.]
Tour of Nevada City Bicycle Classic: Now in its 37th year-- which makes it the second longest running cycling event in the country-- it's held each year, usually on Father's Day weekend.
[Updated January 1, 1998.]
Vuelta Ciclista a Espana 1995: It looks pretty good, but it's in Spanish-- my high-school Spanish has deteriorated to the point where I could use a nice description of this page from a third party. I do know this: La Vuelta is a big race in Spain that runs from September 19 through September 28, 1995.
1998 World Cup of Track Cycling: Being held May 28-30, 1998, at Juan de Fuca Velodrome in Victoria BC, this event will attract riders from 20 countries an probably be a blast. One would suspect that Bianchi sponsored the event from all the celeste on the page, but there is not mention of that.
[Added April 19, 1998.]

You'll often find the same link in the comprehensive events list and in the touring events or, more likely, the multiday tours list. We list them here because so many of these rides are annual, and you might find information about the next installment of a ride by following these links some substantial amount of time before the editor gets around to adding them to the events lists.

AIDS Rides

There are a variety of these very successful fund-raising rides, more each year, sponsored by Tanqueray. They are controversial for the unusually low amount of funds that they generate for AIDS charities, their putative reason for existence. The site is currently under revision and totally empty.
[Updated March 1, 1999.]

American Lung Association of Washington Bike Tours

Various tours, mostly in the Seattle area, benefitting the ALAW.
[Updated March 1, 1999.]

Apple Cider Century

Annual century-- reportedly the Midwest's largest-- held in Three Oaks, MI (which is in the southwest corner, near New Buffalo). This year-- the 26th-- to be held on September 26. 1999.
[Added March 1, 1999.]

Bicycle Across Magnificent Alabama

This site for the annual BAMA has information on the 1999 tour (June 12 through 19 in 1999) and enough information on the 1998 tour to motivate your registration. It was timed to hook up with the start of the Bicycle Ride Across Georgia.
[Updated March 1, 1999.]

Bicycle Ride Across Georgia

Annual supported cross-Georgia ride. To be held June 19-26 in 1999. Now with a slick new website and their own domain name.
[Updated March 1, 1999.]

The Big Rides

Each year, a different benefit Big Ride in Australia, run by Bicycle New South Wales. In 1999, Canowindra to Bega, 24 April - 2 May 1999. In 2000, Brisbane to Sydney, 25 March - 9 April.
[Updated March 1, 1999.]

Bike Aid Singapore 1998

An annual fund-raiser for the Kidney Dialysis Foundation, in 1998 running from June 6-11.
[Added February 18, 1998.]

Bike Arkansas

May 23-29, 1998.
[Added February 10, 1998.]

Bike New York

What's America's largest bicycling event? This is! 28,000 riders in a five-borough (that's all of them, folks) tour, on May 2 in 1999. 22nd annual, 42 miles, starting in Battery Park.
[Updated March 1, 1999.]

Bike Van Buren

"Winding, open roads offer bicyclists a truly peaceful ride through the Villages of Van Buren . . . where the "red carpet of hospitality" is rolled out for their guests, annually, the third full weekend of August." They brag about being the perhaps only county in Iowa (the world?) without a set of stoplights! August 21-22, 1999.
[Updated February 17, 1999.]

Biking Across Kansas

Annually, one thousand riders on three parallel routes. June 5-12 in 1999.
[Updated March 1, 1999.]

Botswana Bike and Build

"The ultimate trip for cyclists with social conscience!" This page describes a bike trip across Botswana-- that's in Africa, folks-- from August 5-24, 1996, a project of Habitat for Humanity International. A week of home-building occupies the center of the trip. The trip is over, but there's lots of nice stuff here about what we missed.
[Updated September 25, 1997.]

Cycle Across Maryland

"For one of life's exceptional treats, Maryland offers cyclists a six-day cycling adventure that explores the Eastern Shore and culminates in the dramatic crossing of the Bay Bridge." Annual, from July 24 to July 30 in 1999.
[Added January 17, 1998. Submitted by Bob Carels]

DALMAC

An annual (since 1971!) 400-500 mile tour from Lansing MI to St. Ignace MI, crossing the Mackinac Bridge, attracting some 1600 riders. Always on Labor Day weekend. Sponsored by the Tri County Bicycle Association.
[Added February 12, 1998.]

BikEnduRoMania 2000

BikEnduRoMania 2000 is a Bike&Adventure International Gathering in the wild mountains of SW Romania

[ Lots of the text is in German. Can't tell you much more than that. -- ed.]

Submitted by: Carol Varga carol@enduromania.ro

[Updated: July 5, 2000 ]

GOBA Home Page

GOBA is the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure, an annual ride of 3000 or so folk across Ohio, "the largest weeklong bicycle tour in the eastern United States." Organized by Columbus Outdoor Pursuits. In 1999, they do northeastern Ohio on June 19-26.
[Updated December 7, 2002.]
[Updated March 1, 1999.]

The Greg LeMond Ride

Describing a one-day tour in the Milwaukee/North Chicago region, about which they say "Ride with a Legend! A scenic ride for all levels of cyclists with five course options between Chicago, Illinois North surburbs and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Exciting pre-ride events, travel assistance, cool fund-raising prizes and special team program all benefiting two great charities. Call 800-637-3135 or fax 773-472-5682 for more information. 25, 62 & 100 mile rides." Sponsored by, and benefiting, Thresholds, "America's number one psychiatric rehabilitation agency."
[Added January 29, 1998.]

Kettle Moraine Fall Color Festival

The KMFCF is an annual fund-raising off-road race in Wisconsin's Kettle Moraine State Park - which this site describes. The sixth annual is October 2, 1999.
[Updated March 1, 1999.]

The L.A.T.E. Ride

An annual, nocturnal, benefit, 25-mile ride in Chicago for Friends of The Park, on July 19 in 1998.
[Added January 31, 1998.]

Menominee River Century

Held in 1999 on June 27, this annual tour of up to 110Km is sponsored by Spokes 'n Folks, fine and well-spoken folks indeed.
[Updated January 1, 1998.]

Official RAGBRAI ® Home Page

The Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa ® is in its twenty-fifth year, which, in part, explains its near-legendary status amongst the megarides. In 1998, RAGBRAI ® will run from July 25 through July 28. This page, recently resited with their own domain name, offers a bunch of information-- maps, registration info, photos, and so forth. Below are some other relevant pages:

Charlie's RAGBRAI ® Page: The 1998 route map, plus lots of links to related sites.
Dave's RAGBRAI ® Pages: Lots of photos from the 1994-7 rides, linked to nice textual accounts.
R. Bruhn's Best and Worst of RAGBRAI ®: Okay, so this one (actually, a collection of reports) is locally served. So sue me. Parental guidance advised.
Team S.N.I.F.F: "The only team that's paid to ride."
Team B.U.T.T.I.C.E.: Yes, Virginia, it really is an acronym.

[Updated January 1, 1998.]

Ride for the Roses

As is well known, Lance Armstrong, perhaps America's best-known professional cyclist, recently survived a bout with testicular cancer. In the process, he formed the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which has as its mission "to fight urologic cancer through awareness, education, and research." To that end, the foundation each year sponsors this supported century ride in Austin, Texas. Another project is the Peloton Project, which rewards fund-raising with an expenses-paid trip to the Ride for the Roses.
[Added April 24, 1998.]

Ride the Rockies

The official site for this annual tour of the Colorado Rockies, so popular that registration is determined by lottery.
[Added February 10, 1998.]

Tour de Blast

On June 15, 1996-- a scant week before the Seattle-to-Portland-- these folks have a little training ride at Mt. St. Helens, at 135k a mere pipsqueak of a ride compared to the STP. This page tells the tale.
[Updated September 25, 1996.]

Tour de Nebraska

Now in it's twelfth year, running from June 16-19 in 1999, and starting and ending in Lincoln.
[Updated January 28, 1999.]

Tour du Canada

The folks that run this page sponsor three major events: the Tour du Canada-- a nine-week cross-Canada-tour-- itself, the Triple T weekend on the Victoria Day weekend in Southern Ontario, and the BiQue Ride, a week-long, 600km ride from Toronto to Montreal. Not for profit. The page is also a resource for discovering other Canadian touring events and groups. Excellent.
[Updated September 25, 1996.]

The World-Wide Bicycle Tour Directory

Rather than a site about an individual touring event, this is a site about all touring events: it's a big, searchable list of tours around the world. For example, search for one-day recumbent rides in Wisconsin during the month of July, or multi-day off-road tours of Costa Rica in August. They claim, at this writing, to have 5000 tours in their database. Both commercial and non-profit tours are listed, and there are forms for entering your own tours.
[Added June 12, 1998.]

Conferences

Rail~Volution 1998: "Building Liveable Communities with Transit" is the theme of this annual conference. They say "the conference is geared to activists, agency staff, elected officials and anyone else interested in using transportation investments to make better communities. To accomodate a broad range of people, there will be everything from introductory 'how-to' sessions to in-depth toolbox sessions for the veterans." September 12-16, 1998, in Portland, Oregon, which means that it is timed to coincide with the introduction of a new, 18-mile extension to Portland's light rail system. Scholarships are available from STPP, the application deadline for which is July 10, 1998.

Miscellany

Note: some stuff was moved to the tour report page in 2001.

HPV EM 1998: This page is for the ninth annual European Championship for Human Powered Vehicles, to be held August 5-9, 1998, in Roskilde Denmark. "Simultaneosly a cycle feast with lots of events is to be experienced (1.-9. august)." This site is worth a visit just for the photos of a variety of HPVs on the page.
[Added March 18, 1998.]
Viet Nam Challenge: Starting January 1, 1998, 75 riders embark on a three-week, 1200-mile tour of Viet Nam. Many of the riders are disabled vets from both sides of what Americans call the Viet Nam War. Grade school students are along. Several world-class athletes such as three-time Tour (TIOOYK) winner Greg Lemond are also there. This site has excellent design and deep content on both the event and on the Vietnamese cities that are on the itinerary. Other features include a teachers' guide and the ability to send questions to the team. Sponsored by the non-profit educational Asia Society and hosted on their Ask Asia web site.
[Added January 6, 1998.]

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