- The 4th Annual Ride Sun Valley Bike Festival returns this June 26-July 5, 2014. Need inspiration? Watch the video above from last years’ events.
- Bicycling Magazine and Specialized announce the inaugural Bicycling Spring Classic in Morgan Hill, CA, on May 9th.
- Giro is celebrating the launch of their new road women’s line of apparel with a contest. Grand prize is a head-to-toe Giro wardrobe, airfare and bike tour with inGamba Cycling Tours Women’s Week, May 11-18th, in Tuscany, Italy. To enter, go to their Facebook page, click “enter now”, describe your best week on the bike with inGamba and hashtag your entry with #bestweekever.
- The 2014 Tour de Lane bicycle ride in Eugene, Oregon, will be August 1st – 3rd.
- Orbea has announced the Silk Route Bike Challenge: 9 days, 5 stages, totaling 600km across the scenic country of Kyrgyzstan August 2-10, 2014.
- Registration is open for the Dave Wiens West Elk Bicycle Classic to be held August 31st in Gunnison, Colorado. Proceeds from the race will support Western State Colorado University’s mountain sports team.
- The 2014 Levi’s Gran Fondo will be October 4th in Santa Rosa, CA.
- The Moab Travel Council is pleased to announce 9 new miles of trails in Dead Horse Point State Park, 32 miles west of Moab, Utah.
- Remember this bike room? Dero, a bike parking and storage solutions company, is offering you the chance to win something like it – $7500 in Dero products and $1000 to decorate your very own bike room. Click here to find out how to enter.
- If you hurry, you can get 25% off storewide at Après Vélo with code AEV25 at checkout, until 8am AEST.
- Ben Welnak of Mountain Bike Radio did an interview this week with Christopher Tassava who finished 7th at the Arrowhead 135 and raced the first JayP’s Backyard Fat Pursuit in Idaho.
- The U.S. Department of Transportation has just issued a proposed National Traffic Safety Goal that does not include goals to reduce cyclist and pedestrian deaths. Help bring this important issue to your representative’s attention via the League of American Bicyclists action page.
- People For Bikes has released its list of America’s 10 Best Protected Bike Lanes of 2013.
- Backcountry.com has announced it’s sponsorship of the National Interscholastic Cycling Association’s Utah chapter the Utah High School Cycling League.
- SKINS compression clothing has announced it’s sponsorship of both the SPY GIANT RIDE p/b MRI Endurance and the Rokform Junior Development cycling teams for 2014.
- …and Lapierre Bicycles has redesigned their website.
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