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 organizers, the ORT "will eventually interconnect existing land trails in the tri-state area [, 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, , Chartiers Creek Greenway, Three Rivers Heritage 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