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11 July 2020

• BLM Proposes New 40 Mile MTB Trail System for Montana’s Scratchgravel Hills

  BUTTE, Mont. – The hills around Helena could soon see a new trail system for those seeking additional recreation opportunities close to home. The Bureau of Land Management’s Butte Field Office opened a public comment period today on a proposed Recreation Area Management Plan and environmental assessment for the Scratchgravel Hills northwest of Helena. The […]

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• Cycling West and Cycling Utah’s Early Summer 2020 Issue is Now Available!

  Cycling West and Cycling Utah Magazine's Early Summer 2020 Issue is now available as a free download (8 MB download). Pick up a copy at your favorite Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Montana, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Northern California bike shop or other location. Download the Magazine Now! Contents La Joya de la Corona of Staycations […]

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• Free Bikes 4 Kidz Utah Seeks Used Bicycles

  Free Bikes 4 Kidz Utah is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that believes every kid deserves a bike. Too often, bikes that kids have outgrown sit unused in garages or end up the landfill. Meanwhile, many children grow up without a bike of their own. FB4K wants to help solve both of these problems by collecting […]

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• Bike Touring the Great Parks of the North

  By Lou Melini — Riding the Going-to-the-Sun road in Glacier National Park has been on the “bucket” list of tours for Julie and I ever since I acquired a Monte Dolack print of a bicyclist riding the the road in 1987. It is described as one the most scenic road in America by several websites. The […]

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• The Santa Fe Mountain Fest – A Southwest Road Trip

  By John Shafer — Every year my wife and I try to make a road trip to a new place. Since I’m primarily a mountain bike and adventure photographer, I look for destinations with great landscapes and trail systems. My wife Jenni writes about beer at Craftybeergirls.com so we also look for breweries to visit. This […]

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• Editorial: Emigration Canyon Road Design Changes Needed for Safer Cycling and Walking

  10 Foot Travel Lanes Would be Safer For Cyclists, Pedestrians, Wildlife, and Motorists July 7, 2020 – Emigration Canyon in Salt Lake County, Utah is currently being reconstructed from Donner Monument to SR 65 (the road to East Canyon). While cyclists have been concerned about the short term lack of access to the canyon, the […]

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• 2020 DK Event Cancelled as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic

  EMPORIA, Kan., July 7, 2020—Life Time, the nation’s premier healthy lifestyle brand which owns and produces the Garmin DK (formerly known as the Dirty Kanza), the world’s premier gravel event, today announced the 2020 DK, which had been rescheduled for September 12, 2020, has been cancelled due to persisting COVID-19 concerns. The decision to cancel comes […]

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• The Basics of Hardcourt Bike Polo

  By David Barthod — History: Hardcourt bike polo is the modern version of grass bike polo. The original version was born in Ireland at the end of the 19th century and was included as a demonstration during the Olympics in London, 1908. Hardcourt bike polo was reinvented by Seattle messengers who had downtime in between […]

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• Les Beehive Boys Compete at the Bicycle Polo World Championships in New Zealand

  By Gabe Mejia, Jimmy Araneda, David Barthod — [Editor's Note: In this blast from the past, Cycling West looks back at the 2016 Bicycle Polo World Championships, at which a team from Salt Lake City, Utah competed.] Les Beehive Boys: Gabriel, Jimmy and Dove are back from Timaru, New Zealand after 11 days spent riding […]

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• The Stout Miss Hopkins’ Bicycle

  [Editor's Note: Every so often you come across stories that really want to be shared. Often they're still under copyright, which means sharing can cost money … but sometimes you luck into stories that are old enough to have passed into the public domain. This is one of those stories.] From STORIES THAT END WELL, By […]

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