Adventure Cycling's Bike Bits Excerpt:
------Bike Bits Vol. 12, No. 14, July 21, 2010 ------This is the 244th issue of Bike Bits, Adventure Cycling's twice-monthly bicycle bulletin. Bike Bits is delivered to you--and 38,822 other readers--because you've signed up for it at the Adventure Cycling Association website, http://www.adventurecycling.org. Bike Bits arrives in text-only format for quick download and includes links for more information. We want to inspire you to dream, and to live your own bicycle adventures.
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"Women who love mud too much have what it takes to transform mountain biking from a boy's club to a human's club." -- Jacquie Phelan, founder of the Women's Mountain Bike and Tea Society (WOMBATS)
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TRAIL TALK According to the website of the Ohio River Trail organizers, the ORT "will eventually interconnect existing land trails in the tri-state area [Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio] such as the Great Ohio Lake-to-River Greenway, North Coast Inland Trail, North Bend Trail, American Discovery Trail, Brooke Pioneer Trail, Wheeling Heritage Trail, Beaver River Trail, North Country National Scenic Trail, Montour Trail, Chartiers Creek Greenway, Three Rivers Heritage Trail, Great Allegheny Passage, Erie to Pittsburgh Trail, and Pittsburgh to Harrisburg Mainline Canal Greenway (Millennium Legacy Trail), thereby creating an interlinked mega-trail system." Wow! They are also psyched about the possibility of the ORT becoming part of the Underground Railroad Bicycle Route's Pittsburgh spur: http://www.ohiorivertrail.org/index.php/us-bicycle-route