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Bike magazine November 2009 Issue On Sale Now

By Screamin Mimi - September 24, 2009 - 13:17

Bike November 2009 cover

SOUTH

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The South is often reduced to clichés and is generally misunderstood by those who live outside it. But what’s the riding like? That simple question drove us to venture below the Mason-Dixon Line in search of answers. Starting in New Orleans and winding east, we set out to explore one of the country’s most overlooked regions. The quality of the characters we met along the way was matched only by the caliber of trails they showed us. Some were defiantly scratched into swampland, while others were built with church-group labor. We came looking for trails and found an under-exposed mountain bike scene with its own wild and exotic singletrack.

TEN FOR ‘10

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It’s On! Fat Tire Bike Week, The World’s Oldest Mountain Bike Festival, Is June 24-28

By Screamin Mimi - June 30, 2009 - 13:56

CRESTED BUTTE, CO – Since the 1970s, when locals started retrofitting old Schwinn paperboy bikes with multiple gears, Crested Butte has helped write the history of mountain biking and is home to the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. This June 24-28, Crested Butte will host the world’s oldest mountain bike festival, the 29th Annual Fat Tire Bike Week.

“Fat Tire Bike Week is the granddaddy of them all,” said Scott Still, the Events Manager at the Crested Butte / Mt. Crested Butte Chamber of Commerce, “and the 2009 Fat Tire will have a larger Bike Expo and some great new events like the Project Rwanda Benefit Concert and the First Annual Fat Tire 40 mountain bike race.”

FTBW has a tradition of live musical performances, Still said. “We thought it would be great to transform one of the music events into a benefit concert to aid Project Rwanda, which is an organization that is helping to improve the lives of the Rwandan people through the use of bicycles. Plus, Project Rwanda is also increasing the awareness of the bicycle as an economical and eco friendly tool in this country and others all over the world.”

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