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Cycling Chicago

By Jacqui Snyder

Chicago has won many awards for being one of the top cycle-friendly cities in the US, and justifiably so. They have an extensive waterfront trail that runs North and South along the shores of Lake Michigan. At certain places the bike routes head away from the water to provide a more

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My Tour de France

By Monika Blewett

Mention the Tour de France

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Family on Bikes: Cycling the Pan-American Highway

On June 8, 2008 Nancy Vogel, her husband John (both school teachers) and their 10-year-old twin sons Daryl and Davy, left on a 2 1/2 year bicycle odyssey, traversing the Pan-American Highway from Alaska to Patagonia, Argentina.

This year Daryl and Davy turned 12, while still on their cycling trip. The

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Preparing For A Cycling Trip

Jacqui Snyder
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If you’re venturing out on a cycling vacation, there is nothing worse than being left behind by the pack, feeling that you’re holding up the group, or pushing yourself so hard to keep up that you can’t enjoy the surroundings or the company─or worse, incurring an injury as a

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An Interview with Nuria Rozalén of Planeta MTB

How popular is cycling among women in Spain?
Cycling for women is still new in Spain. Unlike other European countries such as Germany or the Czech Republic we don’t have a tradition of cycling, even as a means of transportation. But each year we see more and more women on bicycles.

Are bikes used very much for

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Tour de Minami Satsuma 2009

By Bo Causert

Satsuma? What Tour is that? Aren’t Satsuma those little oranges you get at Christmas? They’re really yummy, but what on earth do they have to do with women’s cycling in Canada?

I’m an ex-pat and I’ve lived in southern Japan for 11 years now. When I started cycling here there was precious little online

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Eco-friendly Perth Maps Out Bike Routes For Cyclists

By Laurel-Lea Shannon

For the eco-friendly visitor, the Perth district has it all — rolling hills, dense forest and pristine waterways. Now “the prettiest town in Ontario” is putting out the welcome mat for a group of visitors well-known for their tiny carbon footprint: cyclists.

“The area has so much to offer. Why not explore it on

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Cycling in Collingwood, Ontario

By Jacqui Snyder

Since my last article offering information about an interesting bike trip seemed to be received with lots of interest, I decided that for the next few issues I would write about some great places to cycle that are relatively close to home. These can be perfect for just a weekend getaway, or if

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Touring Bike & Boat Style with Latitude 45 Nord Montreal

By Jacqui Snyder

I always thought of bike & boat trips as something you had to travel to Europe to experience. That is until I came across Latitude 45 Nord at a travel trade show put on by the Quebec Tourism Board specifically for tourism around cycling. Any  country or province , for that matter, who

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Riding Solo — 10 Bike Touring Tips

By Sheila Ascroft

If you are like many cyclists and don’t like to ride in a pack, you can always create your own solo cycling tour. It doesn’t have to be a grand adventure like cycling across Canada, or even an out-and-back to Merrickville. It can be anything beyond your farthest ride into an area you’ve

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Planning Your Own Cycling Tour

by JACQUI SNYDER

Touring on a bicycle can be the most relaxing and, at the same time invigorating activity. You can roll through beautiful farmland or along meandering rivers. There are a multitude of quaint towns and villages around the world worth visiting. There are seashores and lakefronts; hills and mountains offering spectacular vistas; hard upward

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Tackle the Trail: Cabot Trail Bicycle Tour

by Jen Fawcette

Last Labour Day weekend my boyfriend and I decided to head out East to visit my family and do a bike tour of the Cabot Trail. We found bike tour companies that offer week-long excursions for thousands of dollars, but since we were tight on money and time we decided to go with

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A Taste of Provence

By Kerry Guglielmin

Last September I traded the bike paths of Ottawa for the back roads of Provence. Just after Labour Day, my husband and I arrived in Avignon with a GPS, a tour book and our panniers. Neither of us had been to Provence before, or spoke much French, but we had some previous bike

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