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Venus de Miles is an all-women's bike ride in Colorado and Illinois. The event is organized by and benefits Greenhouse Scholars, a nonprofit organization that provides scholarship, mentorship, leadership training, and more to high-performing, under-resourced students in college.
Venus de Miles is a non-competitive ride that started in 2008 with 650 riders and grew to over 2,000 riders in 2011. The Colorado course starts and ends in Prospect New Town, Longmont, Colorado, and the routes range in distance from 30 to 100 miles long. The Illinois course is new in 2012 and will start and end in Lake Forest. The festival following the ride includes gourmet lunch, spa services, a cocktail lounge, and live music. Top sponsors are Trek and WhiteWave Foods. 100% of net income from Venus de Miles benefit the students of Greenhouse Scholars, and the event raises funds to provide scholarships and other support services to approximately 16 students each year.
Competitor Magazine named Venus de Miles the Best Cycling Event in Colorado in 2009, and several renowned athletes ride in the event each year, including Alison Dunlap, Susie Wargin, Connie Carpenter-Phinney, Tricia Downing, and Colleen Cannon.
Full Cycle, the oldest bike shop in Boulder, Colorado USA, started the Venus de Miles Bike Club in 2009 as a way to introduce women to cycling, help them train for the Venus de Miles ride, have fun, and benefit Greenhouse Scholars. The Venus Bike Club now has over 200 members and 1,000+ followers. This recreational, non-competitive, no-drop, women's cycling club is about sisterhood—supporting members' emotional and physical growth into strong, beautiful women.
A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-powered assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A bicycle rider is called a cyclist, or bicyclist.
Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other type of cycle. It encompasses the use of human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles. Cycling is practised around the world for purposes including transport, recreation, exercise, and competitive sport.
A tandem bicycle or twin is a form of bicycle designed to be ridden by more than one person. The term tandem refers to the seating arrangement, not the number of riders. Patents related to tandem bicycles date from the mid 1880s. Tandems can reach higher speeds than the same riders on single bicycles, and tandem bicycle racing exists. As with bicycles for single riders, there are many variations that have been developed over the years.
Shimano, Inc., originally Shimano Iron Works (島野鐵工所) and later Shimano Industries, Inc. (島野工業株式会社), is a Japanese multinational manufacturing company for cycling components, fishing tackle and rowing equipment, who also produced golf supplies until 2005 and snowboarding gear until 2008. Named after founder Shozaburo Shimano and headquartered in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, the company has 32 consolidated and 11 unconsolidated subsidiaries, with the primary manufacturing plants based in Kunshan (China), Malaysia and Singapore.
Since the advent of the bicycle in the 1860s, Chicago has been distinguished as one of the premier cycling locations in the United States, with such public cycling destinations as Grant Park, Burnham Park and the Chicago Park District's Lakefront Trail.
This is a glossary of terms and jargon used in cycling, mountain biking, and cycle sport.
Cycling advocacy consists of activities that call for, promote or enable increased adoption and support for cycling and improved safety and convenience for cyclists, usually within urbanized areas or semi-urban regions. Issues of concern typically include policy, administrative and legal changes ; advocating and establishing better cycling infrastructure ; public education regarding the health, transportational and environmental benefits of cycling for both individuals and communities, cycling and motoring skills; and increasing public and political support for bicycling.
The International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) is a non-profit educational association whose mission is to create, enhance and preserve trail opportunities for mountain bikers worldwide.
Cycling quickly became an activity after bicycles were introduced in the 19th century and remains popular with more than a billion people worldwide used for recreation, transportation and sport.
The Tour de Donut is an annual bicycle race held in Staunton, Illinois, and Troy, Ohio. In this unique bike event, riders' times are reduced by five minutes for each doughnut they consume during two pit stops in the nearby towns.
Robin Morton is an American former cycling team manager and was the first and only female manager in men's professional cycling. She also created the first Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) registered American professional road racing team in 1984. Cycling in Europe is a traditionally male sport and includes rules prohibiting women from the race caravans. At managers' meetings prior to races in Europe, the race organization would vote on whether Morton would be allowed to ride in the team car. Morton was elected to the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2016.
The Hyderabad Bicycling Club (HBC) is a bicycling club for riders in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Founded by Krishna Vadi in 2007, the club has now emerged as the world’s largest cycling club, overtaking the Denver Front Range Cycling Club, USA. It has grown over the years to reach its present membership strength of over 7,500 members and 2,800 members on Facebook. Its bike stations at Gachibowli and Necklace Road have transformed the city, resulting in greater local interest in the activity. The club organizes regular bicycling events in and around Hyderabad, broadcasting their upcoming events through social platforms like Meetup& Facebook.
Detroit is a popular city for cycling. It is flat with an extensive road network with a number of recreational and competitive opportunities and is, according to cycling advocate David Byrne, one of the top eight biking cities in the world. The city has invested in greenways and bike lanes and other bicycle-friendly infrastructure. Bike rental is available from the riverfront and tours of the city's architecture can be booked.
The popularity of cycling in Malta as a sport, a means of commuting, and as a way of exploring the island of Malta is on the increase. In recent years, the Maltese authorities, most notably the Malta Transport Authority, have worked hard to make this activity more accessible and safer.
The Elephant Rock Ride, or rock, is an annual road and mountain bicycling event hosted in Castle Rock, Colorado. It was created by Scot Harris in 1987 as a 100-mile road bike route to be "a way to start the [Colorado] cycling season". Today there are multiple concurrent rides hosted ranging from 7 to 105 miles in order to accommodate a broad range of skill. A maximum of 7,000 participants can register each year to ride.
Cycling in Atlanta has grown in popularity in recent years, from 0.33% of commutes in 2000 to 1.1% in 2009, aided by improving cycling infrastructure and community support. Although Atlanta has historically been a city defined by the automobile, its increasingly compact urban form and mild climate are encouraging residents to cycle to work, shopping, and recreational destinations. Though Atlanta's famed hilly topography can make cycling challenging, though fun, many parts of the city are relatively flat, including some of the more densely populated areas. However, heavy automobile traffic, the lack of bike lanes on many streets, and difficulty in crossing major streets deter most residents from cycling frequently in Atlanta.
The Denver Cruiser Ride is a monthly bicycle ride in Denver, Colorado. Originally a weekly event, the ride, which runs from May through September each summer, would attract over two-thousand riders each week. Founded in 2005 by Brad Evans, the ride has grown annually and is known for the weekly themes and meetup, originally at the Greek Amphitheater in Civic Center Park, called the "Circle of Death".
Banjo Billy's Bus Tours was a tour bus company based in Denver and Boulder, Colorado, operating guided tours in the local area. The company gained attention for its history and ghost tours.
Park and Pedal commuting is a bimodal form of commuting involving a motor vehicle and bicycle. Park and Pedal systems establish parking lots or spaces a comfortable cycling distance from city or employment centers. At the beginning of the workday, commuters leave their cars parked in the lots and pedal their bicycles the rest of the way to work. At the end of their workday, they do the reverse.
