Biking Across Kansas celebrates 40th anniversary ride bike tour
In the summer of 1975, Gerald Ford had been living in the White House for about a year, The Captain and Tennille topped the charts with “Love Will Keep Us Together,” and a 10-speed steel bicycle was...
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1984 Bike Tour: Day 30 – Kansas is big state to lose partner in
Tonight finds us at Bryan and Janette's apartment in Chanute. They're a wonderful couple that Bruce met at a restaurant in town where he was eating. Bryan found me a few hours later as I was riding...
View Article1984 Bike Tour: Day 31 – Shortcut proves hazardous
Tuesday, June 12, 1984 Chanute to El Dorado, Kan. 99 miles Locater map I’m reprinting the day-to-day journal entries of a cross-country bike tour my friend and I took in 1984. More about the...
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1984 Bike Tour: Day 32 – Limping across Kansas
We stopped at a cafe this morning for a long breakfast and fiddled around so we got a late start. Bruce later admitted he just didn't want to get going, given the accident yesterday on the busy...
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1984 Bike Tour: Day 33 – Don’t fence us in; we’re rolling
LA CROSSE, KAN. -- We're sitting here writing at our journals at a picnic table that's about 30 miles south of the geographical center of the US. We clicked off a lot of miles today, and I am tired and...
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1984 Bike Tour: Day 34 – Eating across Kansas
UTICA, KAN. - How many times have I heard people complain about driving across Kansas because it's soooooo boring?Chalk up another reason why bicycle touring is the best way to see the country. Kansas,...
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1984 Bike Tour: Day 35 – Go West, young men!
TRIBUNE, KAN. - We're walking back from dinner at the Cactus Patch restaurant, and realize we're riding through history. We're in the town of Tribune in the county of Greeley. The next town down the...
View Article41st Biking Across Kansas announces route
Can’t really say why, but some of my best memories of bicycling across the US come from Kansas. Maybe it’s the wide open spaces and one century-day after another. That positive vibe was reinforced when...
View Article2,000 more miles of U.S. Bicycle Routes added in 6 states
The U.S. Bicycle Route Network continues to grow. Now standing at 11,053 miles, it is one-fifth of the way to achieving its goal of 50,000 miles of signed bicycle routes in the U.S. The latest growth...
View ArticleBiking Across Kansas announces 2019 tour route
Breaking with tradition, the folks who run Biking Across Kansas — aka BAK — have announced the dates and route of the 2019 across-state bike tour before Christmas this year. The 2019 west-to-east route...
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