Ready To Roll Posted: February 27, 2013 By PRESTON KNIGHT HARRISONBURG — The training wheels are almost off for a broad bicycle-and-pedestrian plan in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.The Rockingham County Board of Supervisors will vote tonight to commit almost $17,000 to an ongoing effort to craft such a map.Last month, the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Metropolitan Planning Organization and planners…
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Harrisonburg, Virginia – The area will be well represented at the upcoming National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C. on March 4-6, 2013. Six locals, including staff from the City of Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, James Madison University and the Northend Greenway as well as a volunteer from the Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition (SVBC), will be attending…
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Wednesday February 27 at 6pm is the scheduled vote on the Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan Right now the Rockingham County Board of Supervisor’s vote to fund a county-wide Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan is scheduled for February 27 at 6pm. We need your help to encourage the Board of Supervisors to fund this plan. We need…
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Three intrepid ‘Burgsmen took to the converted railroad bed running between Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C. for a wild close-to-home 325-mile six-day bicycle adventure earlier this month. Nate Shearer captures the trip in words and images on his beautiful blog, Soil Sample: “We knew from the very first night we were in for an adventure. . .…
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Exciting news for mountain biking in the Shenandoah Valley. Bryce Resort will open up the Valley’s first lift access mountain bike park this summer. From the Northern Virginian Daily on February 22, 2013: Construction will begin at the conclusion of ski season; trails should open in June By Linda Ash Area mountain bikers will have…
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Transportation agencies across the country are about to miss an important opportunity to improve non-motorized traffic safety and encourage healthy and active transportation options. The US Department of Transportation is required by the new transportation law to establish national safety goals and performance measures to guide the states. Right now, they are NOT proposing any…
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Click here and please help get this bill through the Virginia General Assembly: http://www.vabike.org/sb1060-lets-give-it-our-best-shot/ Summary as introduced: Following too closely; passing other vehicles. Includes bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, and mopeds among vehicles that the driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow more closely than is reasonable. The bill also…
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Okay folks…as you may be aware, we have among us a high school junior who is ROCKING THE WORLD…. SVBC member Harrison Naftel is building an outdoor shelter on the Western Slope of Massanutten as his Eagle Project, for us and all our friends (with trail passes of course*) to use FOR DECADES TO COME. Massanutten…
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The below article is from the: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA) February 7, 2013 Section: News (Local) Driver’s Ed Class Picks Up Speed EMILY SHARRER PENN LAIRD – Standing in front of Spotswood High School Wednesday, as students and faculty zipped past on 31 new mountain bikes, Turner Ashby High School physical education teacher Cindy Ferek looked around…
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February 3rd was the twenty something annual Superbowl Sunday Ride. While we can’t pin down the first year of the Superbowl ride we know it started sometime in the 1980s and has had a cult following ever since. In fact old Mountain Bike Virginia guidebooks always mentioned Harrisonburg and the Superbowl ride in the same…
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