Menlo Park (Global Adventures): Cyclists in 150 cities in the US can now use Google maps to plane their routes. The new feature introduced by Google gives step-by-step directions. Bike-friendly roads, trails and bike lanes show up as a new layer and are outlined directly on the map. Users can simply enter a starting point, [...]

Norfolk (Global Adventures): Bf1systems, a company better known for its motorsport and automotive product range and Formula 1 ambitions, just introduced the “Factor 001″, a bicycle without compromise. “Our objective in designing the Factor 001 was simple: to approach the design of the bicycle with no respect for rules or restrictions,” says a statement on [...]

Des Moines (Global Adventures): The 38th edition of the Des Moines Register’s Annual Great Ride Across Iowa (Ragbrai) is coming July 25 through 31, 2010. Ragbrai was started in 1973 by columnists Donald Kaul and John Karras who thought it would be fun to ride their bikes across the state of Iowa.  They invited people [...]

Park City (Global Adventures): 75 miles of single track for a total of 14,080 feet of climbing will be on tap at the first “Park City Point 2 Point Endurance Bike Race.” The endurance race starts on Saturday, September 05, at 7.00 AM.
Park City has over 300 miles of fast and incredibly diverse trails, so [...]

Montreal (Global Adventures): The Bixi bicycle-sharing system will be implemented in Boston and London/England, according to Gérald Tremblay, Montreal’s mayor. From the beginning, Montreal officials had big ambitions for the new system that now goes beyond the borders of that Canadian city.
However, it is not clear at this point if the initial roll-out in Boston [...]

Austria shares a big part of the Eastern Alps with Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as well as parts of southern Germany, northern Italy and Slovenia. The highest mountain in the Eastern Alps is Piz Bernina (4,049 m) in Switzerland. With the exception of other peaks in the Bernina range, the next highest mountains are [...]

If you are a fanatic cyclist and you have some money to spare, you may want to consider Aurumania.  The Danish company currently sells the most expensive bicycles available. Every visible surface on the hand built track bike is plated with 24-carat gold. If that’s not enough, the “statement on wheels” also features more than [...]