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Florida Touring Calendar (VERY ABRIDGED! We’re trying to cram it all in so you’ll know what’s coming up. Watch for early registration dates and use the contact infor- mation for more details about each ride.) Data is from a calendar maintained by Roger Pierce. To add an event to the calendar, e-mail to [email protected]. See complete calendar at www.afn.org/~bike/FBTC

February 12-13 West Palm Beach 442, Goldenrod FL 32733. (407)677- Apr 15-16 Quincy 170 flat to moderately hilly miles. Brevet Series 2000: 300 km 4728. Email: [email protected] or 19th Annual TOSRV South SAG Support with fruits, water, sport June 23-30 Savannah GA 186 mile Randonneur ride series that www.rideforlife.org Tour of Southern Rural Vistas. drink and light snacks. Before Apr. 15: Cycle South Carolina and North will qualify you for -Montreal- 200/126/56 miles in two days from $30; Apr. 16-May 2: $30 (no T-shirt); Carolina Boston. Membership in Randonneurs March 19 (Sun) Fort Myers Quincy, Fla to Albany, Ga and back. Ride Day May 3: $35 (no T-shirt). Fourth leg of Bike South 2000. USA (RUSA) is required for all but the Royal Palm Classic Well stocked rest stops, all meals, Early check-in Sat., 10 am to 5 pm at http://members.aol.com/cyclesc. first two rides (200 and 300 km). Jim 100/62/45/15 miles. $20 includes T- marked route with SAG service, t- Cocoa Beach Community Church. Solanick, (561)433-8796. Email: ride- shirt, rest stops, SAG. Start 8 AM from shirts, free accommodations at high Return transportation available: $20. Aug 4-6 Live Oak [email protected]. Buckingham Park. I-75 Exit #23 to school (hotels available). TOSRV South Availability guaranteed only for entries Dog Days Pedal & Paddle signs. Ride beautiful country roads and Director, Capital City Cyclists, P.O. by Apr. 15 deadline. Contact: Suwannee River State Park 9 miles Feb 13 (Sun) Boca Raton benefit breast cancer awareness. Box 4222, Tallahassee, FL 32315-4222. [email protected]. west of Live Oak. Combines both on Tour of Boca Caloosa Riders, PO Box 870, Fort [email protected] www. and off road in the cool(er) Police-escorted. (monthly). Registration Myers, FL 33902. (941)549-1366. realflorida.net/ccc/tosrv00.htm May 7 (Sun) Piedmont AL morning hours with water-based activi- starts at 12:30 pm, ride at 1 pm; fee: Email: [email protected] Cheaha Challenge Century+ ties in the afternoon. Registration incl. $2. Start at Patch Reef Park. Helmets April 15-20 Live Oak Up to 110 miles of pleasant country, event admin., group camping, maps, required. (561)416-3410 BRBC hotline. March 31 - April 2 Orlando Y2K Florida Bicycle Safari good roads and killer steeps if you want event services, sags, ride staff, evening Email: [email protected]. Walgreens Ride 2000 Three/six days over some of the best them. Sponsored by the Northeast entertainment, and unlimited tubing A 3-day, 275 mile journey from cycling roads in N. Fla & S. Ga. Routes Alabama Bicycle Club. Email: during the weekend. Optional meal plan February 19-20 Brooksville Orlando to South Florida to support the staffed all day with sag wagons. Rest [email protected] Mike Poe. for the weekend. Limit: 200. Suwanee SWAMP Romp ‘00 Florida AIDS Consortium. Fundraising stops every 15-20 mi. Fla. Free- www.free-host.com/challenge. Bicycle Association, PO Box 247, Croom Mountain Bike Trails. 2-nights goal for each rider is $1250. 888-658- wheelers. PO Box 916524, Longwood White Springs FL 32096. 904-397- camping, pancake breakfast Sat & Sun, 2453 www.redribbonride.org/. FL 32791. 407-788-BIKE, fax 407-788- May 13-14 West Palm Beach 2347. Email: [email protected]. hot lunch & BBQ dinner Sat. RIDE. [email protected] or Brevet Series 2000: 1000 km www.suwanneebike.org/. Entertainment Sat night, deli lunch on Apr 1-6 Gainesville FL www.FloridaFreewheelers.com. 620 miles. See Feb 12-13 listing. Sun. rides Fri. night, Sat. day and night, Bike Florida 2000 “Springs Training” Sep 22-24 Kissimmee and Sun. for all skill levels, canoeing 40-65 miles/day with longer options April 22 (Sat) West Palm Beach May 20 (Sat) Spartanburg SC 2nd Annual Bike Florida "Share The Sun. afternoon. Price about $60. avail. 4 or 6 day fully-supported. Brevet Series 2000: Fleche Assault on Mt Mitchell Road" Rally & Expo Reservations required, Email: Overnight in Gainesville, Branford, 24 hours. Randonneur ride series. See 102 miles, extremely challenging. (in cooperation with FBA) in historic [email protected]. Chiefland. Late fee after March 15. Feb 12-13 listing. Shorter Assault on Marion ride is an downtown Kissimmee at Lake Toho. www.SWAMPClub.org. BIKE FLORIDA, Box 451514, option. Spartanburg Freewheelers, PO Recreational rides, bike expo booths, Kissimmee, FL 34745. (407)343- 1992. Apr 29-30 Miami Box 6171, Spartanburg SC 29304. film festival, demonstrations, FBA’s February 27 (Sun) Miami Email: [email protected] or Breakaway Key Largo MS 150 http://members.aol.com/ TheAssault/ or annual meeting. Rides from 10-100 Snowbird Century www.bikeflorida.org. $30.00 registration (before 2/25) min. www.polkcounty.org/ mitch/assault.html miles. Email: [email protected] 25/62/100 mile routes through rural pledge $200.00. A 2 day ride to benefit www.bikeflorida.org/ Redlands and Homestead areas of April 2 (Sun) Palmetto MS from Miami to Key Largo and June 2-July 7 Tallahassee southern Dade County. Rest stops. 12th Annual Spring Classic back. Rest stops, sag wagons, more. Bike South 2000 2000 Gainesville Cycling Festival Everglades Bicycling Club.Registration 19/32/62 mi thru Manatee County. Camping avail. Contact Monica, S.Fla Six states. See page 16. Two centuries in two days (see below)! forms/info: Fifi or George Derby, Begin/end at Manatee County Chapter. National MS Society, South (Or enjoy the shorter options for a email. Everglades Bicycle Club, PO Fairgrounds, Palmetto. Organized by Florida Chapter, 7933 NW 53 St., June 2-8 Tallahassee weekend of .) Send your Box 430282, South Miami FL 33243. the St. Petersburg Bicycle Club. Email: Miami, Fl. 33166. Phone (305)599- Bike Florida 2000 Florida Panhandle snail mail address to Email: [email protected]. [email protected]. 0299 fax (305)592-6674. Email: Florida leg of Bike South 2000. [email protected]; we will send you [email protected]. Tallahassee to Florala, AL. 55-70 our brochure and an entry application in March 4-5 West Palm Beach April 8 (Sat) Brooksville mi/day. (407) 343-1992 or e-mail August. Brevet Series 2000: 400 km Clean Air Bike Ride Apr 30 (Sun) Jacksonville (Neptune) [email protected] (www.bikeflori- See Feb. 12-13 listing. Benefits American Lung Assoc. Biking Beach da.org) for info and registration form. Sep 30 (Sat) Gainesville along the Withlacoochee State Trail. Tour de Forts 8th Annual Saturn Santa Fe Century March 12 (Sun) Weirsdale Ridge Manor Trail Head, one mi. east New route on new day to Fort Clinch June 9-15 Florala AL A tour through the lush forest and pas- Lake Weir Kiwanis Tri-County Tour of I-75 at SR 50 (exit 61). 12/20/48/100 (Fernandina Beach). Return by Mayport Bicycle Across Magnificent Alabama ture land north of Gainesville up 20/40/60/100 mile route through hills of mi. $20 ($10/children 12 and under) Ferry. Leaves from Fletcher HS in (BAMA) through the Santa Fe River valley. $15 Marion, Lake, and Sumter counties. includes t-shirt, map, food at SAG Jacksonville Beach. Special hotel rates, Ala. leg of Bike South 2000. To Eufala. until Sep 23 then $20. T-Shirts are $10. (100 mile route includes a loop through stops. Clean Air Bike Ride, 6170 non-rider activities. Tour de Fort, Box BAMA, P.O. Box 2286, Anniston, AL A pancake breakfast will be served the Ocala Nat. Forest.) Start/end at Central Ave, St Petersburg FL 33707. 550963, Jacksonville, FL 32255-0963 36202-2286. Email: before the ride for $5. Kiwanis Beach, Lake Weir in 800-771-5863. Fax (813)345-0287. (904)721-5870 or [email protected]. Weirsdale. Early registration $15 (by [email protected] www. http://personal.jax.bellsouth.net/jax/c/t/c www.bikebama.com/. Oct 1 (Sun) Gainesville Mar. 3) includes T- shirt. Well stocked tampacycle.com/ cleanair/cleanair.htm. tburns/nfbc/ or Email: [email protected]. 20th Annual Horse Farm Hundred rest stops, SAG support. Late/day of June 11 (Sun) Carrolton GA The Gainesville Cycling Club's tour ride: $20 (T-shirt if available). An April 8-9 West Palm Beach May 4-7 Live Oak West Georgia 100 through the picturesque horse farms of optional post-ride chicken dinner served Brevet Series 2000: 600 km Suwannee Bicycle Festival 12/25/50/66/100 miles. Start at Univ of northern Marion county. We have the 11am-1:30pm ($5/ea). As a last resort 372 miles. See Feb. 12-13 listing. 5-100 mi. Rides: pedal & paddle, pedal West Georgia. Proceeds benefit the best stocked rest stops in Florida! call Glen (352-821-4653) or Julie (352- & saddle, swim, picnic, historic, hydro- American Heart Association. Allen 102/45/30/25 mi. $15 until Sep 23 then 624-9237). Email: IDDTriTour@- April 9 (Sun) Plant City ponic farm, ecology, zoo, etc!! Sags, Griffin, Perpetual Motion Inc., $20. aol.com or www.afabinc.com/kiwanis- 18th Annual Strawberry Century rest stops, Ride Leaders Maps, Lunch 1002 Maple Street, Carrolton GA tour.htm Times: Day of ride registration 6 a.m. deliveries, T-shirts Th-Sun, 8 meals: 30117. (770)834-3278, fax (770)832- Nov 10-13 White Springs Ride start 7:15 a.m. $23 advance $112, Fri pm-Sun, 6 meals: $98, One 9578. Email: [email protected]. Florida Fat-Tire Festival Mar 12 (Sun) Boca Raton includes long-sleeve T- shirt / $25 day day (no camping - 3 meals) $50 Reg. www.wga-net.com/bicycles/events.html. "Florida's Largest Fat-Tire Festival." Tour of Boca of ride. Rides: 19/31/62/100. See ad on deadline: Apr 17, SBF, PO Box 2944, Suwanee Bicycle Association, PO Box See Feb. 13 listing. page 11. High Springs FL 32655. (904) 454- June 16-22 Eufala AL 247, White Springs FL 32096. 904-454- 3304 (Lys) Email: myhosack@prodigy Bike Ride Across Georgia (BRAG) 2768. Email: [email protected] March 18-19 Vero Beach April 14-16 Monticello GA .net, www.suwannneebike.org Seven day ride to Savannah. Third leg www.suwanneebike.org/ Breast Cancer Ride for Life BRAG Spring Tune-Up Ride of Bike South 2000. BRAG, PO Box 135 mi. to Daytona Beach with a stop PO Box 87111, Stone Mtn. GA 30087- May 7 (Sun) Cocoa Beach 87111, Stone Mtn. GA 30087-0028. in Cocoa Beach. Hotel Rooms 0028. fax (770)935-1918. Email: Cross Florida Phone (770)921-6166, fax (770)935- Provided. $500 minimum funds raised. [email protected] or www.brag.org One of the most challenging one-day 1918. Email: [email protected] or Breast Cancer Ride For Life, PO Box rides in the country. Not for novices. www.brag.org 14 Florida Bicycle Messenger

Not Just T-shirts Florida Bicycle Maps By Bill Boyd By Dwight Kingsbury

ver the years, I’ve col- That first ride, for me, went to a different he Northeast Florida location each day. This changed to moving Regional Planning North Central Florida series lected drawers full of 1. Alachua, Bradford & Union every day except the two days that had 100 T Council released its 2. Columbia, Hamilton & Suwannee O T-shirts mile options. The current format stays in two locations for three nights each. new 4-map series of north- 3. Dixie, Levy & Gilchrist from bike tours I’ve taken. 4. Lafayette & Taylor With two to three distance options each day, eastern cycling routes. For some all riders can find a suitable distance option. This format provides more time for County bicycle maps reason, my wife These maps are among the most beautiful socializing and takes less time for tenting 1. Broward and useful for bicycle touring I have seen. thinks I should discard those activities while still providing adequate vari- 2. Miami-Dade (limited quantities) These maps include a scale for evaluation ation in the daily rides. 3. Palm Beach (eastern) I no longer wear. of distances and indicate shared use paths Looking at the T-shirts laid out before 4. Polk (excellent touring) and off-road trail areas. me, I think of all the people I’ve met at the 5. Sarasota When I took a crack at this, she saw what Images are sharp and color-coding is I was doing and gave me one of those “It’s Safari. This is, perhaps, the main reason I reader-friendly. Detail maps highlight City and urban area bicycle maps about time.” looks. Spying the stack of go back each year. In fact, I’ve talked many towns and popular cycling areas; sidebars 1. Fort Walton Beach urban area Florida Bike Safari shirts, she said: “Surely, friends from other rides into attending the describe points of interest. 2. Gainesville you don’t need five of those!” Safari. This has given me the best of two Here is the complete Florida bicycle map 3. Naples Sorting through the T-shirts brought back worlds, making new friends and seeing old catalog, Holiday 1999 edition: 4. Panama City urban area memories. Six years ago I went to my first friends from the Safari and other rides. Three of my Safari T-shirts represent 5. Tallahassee Safari as a means of getting in some spring Northeast Florida series years that one of my sons joined me. Rare miles and seeing a friend I met on a tour the 1. Baker, Nassau & Duval, with detail maps moments when I’ve been able to spend a lot Just send me a mailing address, and specify year before. (Yes, there are six T-shirts and of Macclenny/Glen St. Mary and Amelia of time with him since he grew up and start- which maps you want. There is no charge. no, I didn’t bring that to my wife’s atten- Island. tion.) ed his own family. 2. Clay and Putnam, with detail maps of Dwight Kingsbury The Safari has become a staple of each I found it’s harder to throw my Safari T- Orange Park, Green Cove Springs, and FDOT/ Pedestrian & Bicycle Program subsequent year and I’m looking forward to shirts away than I thought it would be. Palatka. 605 Suwannee St MS 82 my seventh one in April 2000. In my opin- Looking them over, I realized they’re not 3. Flagler and St. Johns, with detail maps of Tallahassee, FL 32399-0459 ion, it is one of the best tour values avail- just T-shirts, but fond memories too. Palm Coast and St. Augustine. 850.487.1200 able. 4. Duval, with detail of downtown [email protected] Looking back over the years, I’m amazed Jacksonville. at how much the Safari has changed.

2000 FLORIDA TRAILS Guide to South AND GREENWAYS CONFERENCE Florida Off-Road May 18-20, 2000 At The Bicycling BELLEVIEW BILTMORE RESORT AND SPA by Rob DeGraaf Clearwater, Florida Creating a New Landscape for Florida First ever South Florida regional MTB The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Florida Field Office, in partnership with Office of Greenways & Trails, Pinellas County, & The National Park trail guide Service, is exited to offer this opportunity to help you connect with new Written by a local ideas and new forces in the trails, greenways, bicycle/pedestrian, trans- portation, parks planning, design, health, eco-tourism, and community expert! Includes: development arenas. Come to Pinellas County and see what trails can bring to your area. H H H Maps Photos Detailed descriptions To receive early registration materials and more conference information H Local mtb history H Over 20 off-road rides H Directions please contact us at (850) 942-2379 or e-mail: [email protected] www.geocities.com/pipeline/9330/sflgde.html 12803 Thonotosassa Road, Dover, FL 33527 Exhibitor space will be available at the conference, call the number listed 813-986-2128 [email protected] above for exhibitor information. $12 (incl. S&H) - Mail check payable to Rob DeGraaf. Bike shops! Wholesale avail. Portion of proceeds benefits the Florida Bicycle Association Winter/Spring 2000 15

Definition of ‘Roadway’ a Factor in Citation Errors By Dwight Kingsbury

Frank Bostwick reported in the July West Palm Beach Bicycle Club Cycletter: “When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when “Lou [Satterlee] was struck by a motorist and knocked unconscious... while he was work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth training alone. His bike was totalled and he having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the suffered extensive road rash and bruises... road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” “An eyewitness...stated he was riding to the left of the ‘fog line.’ — Arthur Conan Doyle “In [316.2065, F.S., we read]: ‘A bicyclist who is not traveling at the same speed as other traffic must ride as close as is practica- ble to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway.’ Pedaling into the 21st Century “Does that ‘roadway’ edge mean where By Kenneth R. Wykle the white line lies or where the grass meets Administrator, Federal Highway Administration the ‘roadway?’ “The driver of the car which knocked Lou off the road and demolished his bike was not resident Clinton and We have made tremendous progress in the cates must make their voices heard at the ticketed. The investigating trooper at the last few years. More American adults are state and metropolitan planning levels. The scene told Lou he was supposed to be to the Vice President Gore riding bikes and walking. But we must con- legislation of the 1990s opened the door of right of the fog line. That’s the reason the have established the tinually focus on our number one priority — the planning process to public involvement. motorist was not at fault, the trooper P safety — while at the same time creating an Our guidance to the planning organizations claimed...” development of liveable environment that encourages bicycling and will ensure that bicycling and walking are walking. given consideration. However, it is up to [Sound of Ped/Bike error buzzer] communities as a top priori- Our goal is to double the percentage of bicycling advocates to participate and to ty for the Administration. Actually, the fog line marks the legal edge trips made by bicycle and foot while reduc- make sure that what is planned is well of an uncurbed roadway in Florida. ing the absolute number of fatalities and designed and maintained. “Roadway” is defined in F.S. Chapter 316 injuries involving bicyclists and pedestrians In the federal transportation program, as: “That portion of a highway improved, Liveable communities — places where by 10 percent. We have found that more funds are distributed in general categories to designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular people can work together to improve the than one-fourth of all travel is one mile or state transportation departments and metro- travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.” quality of their lives — means encouraging less and 53 percent of all people live within politan planning organizations. Bicycling You can read this at www.leg.state. development patterns that give people safe, two miles of a public transit route. These projects are broadly eligible for funding from fl.us/citizen/documents/statutes/1998/ch0316 accessible and convenient transportation short trips hold tremendous potential for most of the major federal-aid highway, tran- /SEC003__.HTM#0316.003 choices. Those are, by definition, friendly to increasing the amount of bicycling. sit, and safety programs. Since the shoulder is not part of the road- bicycling. way, there is no statutory basis for requiring To reach our goal, we will be reaching out Decisions to allocate these funds will con- Following the strong direction from the cyclists to ride to the right of the fog line. to the state and local officials who are tinue to be made at the state and local level, President and the Vice President, govern- but we will through consultation strongly Other Laws on Books ment agencies have begun to view bicy- encourage the funding of bicycling facilities cling as a serious part of our national and programs. Should Protect Cyclists’ transportation system — a transportation Today, at FHWA, we are approaching TEA-21 not only directs consideration for choice instead of a recreational activity Rights transportation with a new perspective bicyclists in the planning process but it also only. And more and better things are com- requires consideration of bicycle facilities in By Theo Petritsch, P.E., Florida ing for bicycling in the future. that will produce more consideration conjunction with all new construction and Ped/Bike Coordinator Under the leadership of the Federal and more access for bicyclists. reconstruction of transportation facilities, Highway Administration (FHWA), federal except where bicycling is explicitly not per- There are two other statutes which absolve spending for bicycle and pedestrian pro- mitted. We hope that prohibition will be the cyclist: jects has increased from about $4 million in responsible for making most transportation applied to a dwindling number of places and “The driver of a vehicle overtaking anoth- the late 1980s to an average of $160 million decisions under our program. We will be er vehicle proceeding in the same direction only on a sound safety basis. a year in the 1990s ($239 million in 1997). shall pass to the left thereof at a safe dis- encouraging them to consider bicycling Bicycling is economical, environmentally In addition, significant amounts of money tance and shall not again drive to the right when they write their plans and we will be sound and healthy. It can and should be an side of the roadway until safely clear of the are being invested by state and local govern- developing procedures that will require that available alternative for people to get around overtaken vehicle.” F.S. 316.083 (1) and ments to improve conditions for bicycling. consideration in a systematic way. whether it is to work, school, shopping or “Special hazards.—The fact that the speed The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Today, at FHWA, we are approaching visiting friends. People shouldn’t have to use of a vehicle is lower than the prescribed lim- Century (TEA-21), which President Clinton transportation with a new perspective that a gallon of gasoline to get a quart of milk. its shall not relieve the driver from the duty signed into law last year, holds even greater will produce more consideration and more Increased use of bicycling as a means of to decrease speed when approaching and potential for funding bicycle facilities and access for bicyclists. We have a new vision transportation also will help protect the envi- crossing an intersection, when approaching programs. that says that the super-highway is not and going around a curve, when approaching ronment, reduce and devel- State and local transportation planning a hill crest, when traveling upon any narrow always the answer. op more liveable communities. agencies also are more aware of the demand or winding roadway, or when special hazards The quest for road improvements does not If we are to reach our goals, bicycle advo- exist or may exist with respect to pedestrians for facilities that will allow people to bicycle always have to result in a huge, multi-lane cates must become involved in the planning or other traffic or by reason of weather or and of the environmental, economic and road that leaves little or no room for bicy- process at the state and local levels. By mak- other roadway conditions, and speed shall be congestion-relief benefits of bicycling. As a clists and pedestrians. Instead, a well ing planners and other decision-makers in all decreased as may be necessary to avoid col- result, we expect a continued surge in bicy- designed highway can balance the needs of 50 states aware of the demand for bicycle liding with any person, vehicle, or other con- cle facility investment as an alternative to bicyclists and motor vehicle traffic. facilities, we can develop a better transporta- veyance on or entering the street in compli- the investment of the past, which too often While FHWA will continue to provide tion system and, ultimately, a better nation. ance with legal requirements and the duty of excluded bicycling as a choice. leadership from Washington, bicycling advo- all persons to use due care.” F.S. 316.185 Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage Florida Bicycle Messenger PAID Permit #297 P.O. Box 1547 Winter Park, FL Orlando, FL 32802

Correction The mission of the Florida Bicycle Cape Coral Parks and Recreation Department Offers Association (FBA) is to serve the interests On page 10 of the Fall/Winter 1999 edi- of Florida’s bicyclists through education tion of the Messenger we mistakenly and advocacy. identified the trademark logo of the EFFECTIVE CYCLING COURSES The Florida Bicycle Association was Friendship Trail Corp. with an activity incorporated in 1997 for educational and Bicycling for recreation and transportation is more popular now than it has been for charitable purposes. FBA is a nonprofit, of the Bay World Public Trust, Inc. The several decades. With this growing participation in cycling, comes the risk of tax-exempt corporation under Section two organizations are entirely separate increased accidents and injuries. The League of American Bicyclists is responding 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. and any implication of endorsement or with a bicycling education program, Effective Cycling. The instructor, Crystal Allred, Donations, including membership dues, cosponsorship through our erroneous ECI #571 is a certified Effective Cycling Instructor by the League of American are tax deductible. A copy of the current Bicyclists. financial statements may be obtained by juxtaposition of the Friendship Trail contacting FBA, P.O. Box 1547, Orlando, logo with the Bay World Public Trust, FL 32802. See below for information on Inc., was unintentional. Effective Cycling - ROAD I joining FBA. Foundational course and prerequisite to all other Effective Cycling courses. Principles of , bicycle selection and fit, helmet use, basic bike handling skills, The Florida Bicycle Messenger is pub- traffic rules and responsibilities, and minor maintenance skills are included. Fee lished quarterly as a service to members includes workbook and handouts. You are responsible for bringing a bicycle in good and advocates for a bicycle-friendly Florida working order and a helmet. by the Florida Bicycle Association, P.O. Box 1547, Orlando, FL 32802. Six states, five rides, Lunch is on your own (bring your lunch). Preregistration is required. For more infor- www.floridabicycle.org; combined into one great mation call 941-574-0801. e-mail: [email protected]; tour beginning with Bike Phone: 407-898-4137. Florida at Tallahassee Age Day(s) Dates Time Classes Fee Membership in FBA includes a sub- (Bike Fla., BAMA, 16+ SAT 2/5, 2/12 9a-lp 2 $30 scription to the Messenger. The Messenger accepts and welcomes Jun 2-Jul 7 BRAG, Cycle S/N Location: Parks and Recreation Administration Building your advertising! Please contact the exec- Carolina, Bike Virginia). utive director for rates and specifications. Av. 55-65 mi./day, rest Effective Cycling - ROAD II Publishers reserve the right to review days built in. Full support, luggage For intermediate riders who want to enhance their riding skills and become more pro- advertising content and to reject advertis- transport, camping incl., opt. motels. ficient with bicycle maintenance. Fee includes workbook and handouts. You are ing that, in the opinion of the Association, Food extra. Shuttle from end responsible for bringing a bicycle in good working order and a helmet. is neither in the best interest of FBA’s (Charlottesville VA) to Tallahassee Lunch is on your own (bring your lunch). Preregistration is required. For more infor- members nor its goals and objectives. avail. Cost: $1,000 ($500/child) mation call 941-574-0801. Although we carefully review articles and information submitted, FBA is not respon- Bike South 2000, P.O. Box 871103, sible for the accuracy of information con- Stone Mountain, GA 30087-0028. Age Day(s) Dates Time Classes Fee tained herein unless explicitly stated as (770) 921-6457 16+ SAT 2/26, 3/4, 3/11 9a-1p 3 $30 official policy of FBA. [email protected] Location: Parks and Recreation Administration Building © 2000 Florida Bicycle Association All rights reserved.

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