Team RadioShack Line-up for Tour de Romandie

Team Radioshack is ready with their team for the 2011 edition of the Swiss race Tour de Romandie, which runs in the French speaking part of Switzerland. Tour de Romandie (Switzerland), 26/04 – 01/05/2011 Riders : Fumiyuki Beppu, Jani Brajkovic, Manuel Cardoso, Ben Hermans, Geoffroy Lequatre, Dmitriy Muravyev, S�bastien Rosseler & Haimar Zubeldia Directors : [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/team-radioshack-line-up-for-tour-de-romandie/

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J is for Japan - Eating London A to Z

For the letter J wanted to know if there was more to Japanese food than sushi & sashimi, and if so could we find it within the M25. J is for Japan: an A to Z of World Foods of...

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/thehungrycyclist/~3/tkDMLwQ_Nfo/j-is-for-japan-eating-london-a-to-z.html

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First ride of 2013 in the Yorkshire Wolds: Kiplingcotes Valley is flooded

A rare day of mild weather today and no rain. Unfortunately, we came upon this scene as we dropped down in to the Kiplincotes Valley. I might have guessed that water would still be covering this low-lying part of the Yorkshire Wolds after my last ride in the area. The road was flooded in three [...]

Source: http://cycleseven.org/first-ride-of-2013-in-the-yorkshire-wolds-kiplincotes-valley-flooded?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=first-ride-of-2013-in-the-yorkshire-wolds-kiplincotes-valley-flooded

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Ben Hermans Top Ten at Amstel Gold

Ben Hermans continues to show his strength, intelligence and overall ability in the one-day classics coming in 8th today in a field of quality riders in the Amstel Gold Race, right on the heels of his 12th place in Wednesday?s Brabantse Pijl, just four days ago. For most of the day Ben was seen riding [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/ben-hermans-top-ten-at-amstel-gold/

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It?s like a journey I just don?t have a map for

Sometimes it’s not about the riding. �Sometimes the bike is just there to give you something to do while you’re talking, and to get you to where you can do that talking over coffee. �It’s a vehicle for a different kind of therapy – mental instead of physical – but as equally therapeutic. �Sometimes it’s [...]

Source: http://www.thecyclingmayor.com/its-like-a-journey-i-just-dont-have-a-map-for

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How to Deal with Dog Encounters

If you ask a traveling cyclist about their scariest moment on a bike, many of them will respond with a tale about an encounter with a loose dog.

This is a situation which cyclists can encounter on roads across the U.S. and around the world. Though we haven't formally tracked the number of reports we've received from each U.S. state, anecdotally it seems like Kentucky holds the lead in cyclist vs. dog encounters in the U.S.

When I recently spoke with Troy Hearn, Kentucky Bicycle Pedestrian Program Coordinator, about the issue he didn't shy away. Troy, a long-time cyclist, knows firsthand there are trade offs to riding the great, low-traffic roads of rural Kentucky on routes like our TransAmerica Trail. "Truth is," he said, "dogs roam free on our country roads."

Going on numbers alone, Kentucky hosts the second-highest number of miles on the TransAm, so it's possible the reports are slightly skewed by vastness of Kentucky's roads and not just the nature of the communities that rest along them. While we have talked about the possibility of a reroute in Kentucky, it doesn't look promising. In order to retain the rural aspect of the route it isn't likely we'd find another set of roads that would be dramatically different in this respect.

All that being said, what should you do when you see Rover on the road ahead of you? There are many tactics you might employ, each with it's own positives and negatives, several of which are described in these articles recommended by Troy as resources: Dealing with Dogs and Cycling with Aggressive Dogs Around.

If you have a particularly scary encounter with a dog on one of our routes, please report it to us with as much information as you can about the location on a map correction card or to @acaroutes on Twitter with the route-specific hashtag. If we can pinpoint problem areas, we can alert future cyclists about these stretches via our online addenda system.

Photo from markstos's Flickr photostream: This is the kind of behavior traveling cyclists prefer in their dog encounters.

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GEOPOINTS BULLETIN is written by Jennifer 'Jenn' Milyko, an Adventure Cycling cartographer, and appears weekly, highlighting curious facts, figures, and persons from the Adventure Cycling Route Network with tips and hints for personal route creation thrown in for good measure. She also wants to remind you that map corrections and comments are always welcome via the online Map Correction Form.

Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2013/01/how-to-deal-with-dog-encounters.html

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Winter riding and winter training

Source: http://amrcycling.blogspot.com/2012/01/winter-riding-and-winter-training.html

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