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The Power of a Bike

November 24, 2020 By Zola Zeester Leave a Comment

A bike can change a child's life

The people, experiences and emotions involved in a bicycle’s search for new purpose are eloquently told in “The Bicycle“, a short film by Chris McCoy & Adam Neustadter.


 

Bikes from Santa, and a little sister’s smile (Zeester family photo)

I was 8 years old, my sister was 5, when Santa Claus surprised us with two shiny and new bikes under the Christmas tree.  Our first ride!  It was exciting for the entire family.  Mother and Dad took us both out early the next day and taught us how to ride.  I remember being a little nervous about getting on a big bike, but it didn’t take me long to get the hang of it, and then I wanted to go fast and ride forever.  What a thrill to ride all day long —cruising the hood in search of solo adventures, going to the library to hang out, testing my racing skills against any challenger (bikers, dogs & cars), visiting neighbors, and finding new friends.  Many years later, my mother revealed the bikes were not exactly “new”.  Dad had found rusty old, beat up bicycles, and spent weekends repairing and restoring them in my grandparent’s home cellar.  That, of course, made a special gift and cherished ‘first bike’ memories even more dear. 

 

“As a kid I had a dream – I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike, I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike.”                                                                                                                         —- John Lennon

 

[su_dropcap]A[/su_dropcap] kid with a bicycle is empowered with the ability to travel and explore, building confidence and independence, and learning valuable lessons and lifelong skills with each ride.  However, many children are not able to enjoy the benefits of bike riding  as there are obstacles, financial as well as safety issues that have resulted in a shocking decline in the number of children who ride bikes or walk to school in the US (48% in 1969 to 13% in 2009).  Addressing these problems are community and global organizations dedicated to making bicycles accessible to every child and creating bike-friendly cities and neighborhoods, offering ‘build & earn a bike’ programs, bicycle give-aways, mechanic, repair and safety classes, group touring and activities as well as citizen advocacy projects for walk & bike safe streets.  You can participate in efforts to get kids on bikes by donating time, money and/or used bikes.  Sometimes it’s the smallest thing that can make a big difference in the world.

Here’s a short list of community & global bikes for kids programs and information on bike safety:  

Austin Yellow Bike Project in Austin, TX

The Oasis Bike Workshop in Nashville, TN

Free Bikes for Kids (Minnesota, Utah, Georgia)

World Bicycle Relief

Safe Kids Worldwide (bike safety tips)

Kids Health – Bike Safety

More Information/Resources:
League of American Bicyclists – A non-profit organization that works to create safer roads, stronger communities, and a bicycle-friendly America through information, advocacy and promotion. Established National Bike Month in 1956 to showcase the benefits of biking and “encourage more folks to give biking a try”. [May is National Bike Month, May 14-18 is National Bike To Work Week, and May 18 is Bike To Work Day]

Smart Cycling – safety guide, tips and videos, League of American Bicyclists

 

 

I was 3 years old and life was becoming a drag, then my grandfather came to my rescue and built me a Tree Swing. 

 

 

 

 

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Feature photo of “My first bike, first ride” is courtesy of Zeester Media LLC, CC BY-NC-ND

Filed Under: Exploration, Insight, Ride, Video Tagged With: Bicycle

Bicycle Road Racing

August 21, 2019 By Zola Zeester Leave a Comment

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The sport of road bicycle racing (bike racing on paved roads) began in the 19th century, gained popularity in France, Spain, Belgium, and Italy, and developed into an organized sport in 1868 — just 50 years after German Baron Karl von Drais patented his bicycle design ‘Laufmaschine’ (running machine), the first commercially successful two-wheeled, steerable, human-propelled vehicle.  Today, road bicycle racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing among spectators and competitors with events held across the globe, and some of the earliest races continue each year among the biggest [Liège–Bastogne–Liège (established 1892), Paris–Roubaix (1896), the Tour de France (1903), the Milan–San Remo and Giro di Lombardia (1905), the Giro d’Italia (1909), the Volta a Catalunya (1911), and the Tour of Flanders (1913)].

There are several formats and types of bicycle road races:  Single-day, Time Trial, Stage Races, and Ultra-Marathon.  The most common are mass start events, where riders start the race simultaneously and ride to a set finish point, and time trials, where individual riders or teams race a course alone against the clock.  A stage race or “tour” consists of separate races, or ‘stages’, during several days of competition, including mass starts and time-trial stages ridden consecutively.  Ultra-Marathon is a very long single stage event where the race clock runs continuously from start to finish.

Single-day race distances may be as long as 180 miles (290 km).  Courses run from start to finish (place to place) or cover one or more laps of a circuit; other single-day races combine both course types. Races over short circuits, often within a town or city, are known as ‘criteriums’.  Some races, known as ‘handicaps’, are designed to match riders of different abilities and/or ages by grouping the slower riders at the start in front of the faster riders.

 

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The first Antwerp Port Epic, a single-day bicycle road race, covered more than 200 kilometers (124.3 miles) through the port and windy ‘polders’ (low lying tracts of land enclosed by dykes) in the north of Antwerp and over unpaved strips and cobbled roads.  If you missed the September 2nd live stream broadcast, there’s still time to watch a video recording of the race.  Just click/tap the “Watch Again” button on the media player below ↓

 

 

Exciting to watch cross-country cycling videos On2In2™ Free & On DemandIt’s FREE to Watch: Cross-Country Cycling, an On2In2™ collection of bicycle adventure videos

 

 

 

 

 

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Endurance Racing

November 20, 2018 By Zola Zeester Leave a Comment

LiVE & FREE To WATCH the 2018 De Panne Beach Endurance mountain bicycle race on November 25

[su_quote cite=”Adam Bickett “]The extraordinary can come out of just following your passions.[/su_quote]

 

 

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Famous for its explosive mass start of more than 1,300 cyclists, the De Panne Beach Endurance — “the mother of all beach races” — is an international beach race for mountain bikes over a race course of 52km (32.3 miles) that includes a hill climb and numerous obstacles.

If you missed the live stream broadcast of the 2018 De Panne Beach Endurance race on November 25, 2018, there’s still time to watch a video recording of the event.  Just click/tap the “Watch Again” button on the media player below ↓

 

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Mountain Bike Racing

March 1, 2018 By Zola Zeester Leave a Comment

On2In2™ live streaming of Cape Epic mountain bike race

Cape Epic is a mountain bike stage race (prologue + 7 stages covering more than 400 miles) held annually in the Western Cape, South Africa, attracting elite professional mountain bikers and amateurs from around the world.  Bikers compete in teams of two that must stay together for the duration of the race.

 

Did you miss the 2018 Absa Cape Epic?  Here’s a video recording of the Grand Finale.

 

The 2019 Cape Epic is scheduled March 17-24.  Click/tap → here for all On2In2™ live stream program schedule info.

 

Exciting to watch cross-country cycling videos On2In2™ Free & On DemandMore thrilling action on wheels to watch in this
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The Longest Day

February 8, 2018 By Zola Zeester Leave a Comment

Watch 2018 Coast to Coast competition LIVE & FREE On2In2™ starting with a sprint on February 8, 2018, then a bike, mountain run and kayak.

Coast to Coast is an iconic multisport racing event held each February on the South Island of New Zealand. Robin Austin Judkins, former New Zealand sports administrator, founded Coast to Coast in 1983, and has seen it grow from 25 to 1,000 athletes competing at every level in several individual and team challenge races, including running, cycling and kayaking.

The one day challenge race (aka the ‘World Multisport Championship’ or The Longest Day) was introduced in 1989 with a race course through rugged terrain and watercourse starting on the West Coast of New Zealand, traversing the width of the South Island, crossing the main divide, and finishing on the East Coast.  Top athletes typically cover the 243km (151mile) course in amazing time (typically close to 11 hours), while competitors in other Coast to Coast race events will take two days to complete the same course, with an overnight camp at the end of the mountain run section.

 

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2018 Coast to Coast race course stages (sourced via Ultimate Event Productions Ltd website)

2018 World Multisport Championship competitors start at Kumara Beach with a 3km sprint, then they pick up their bikes and follow the Taramakau River to the foothills of the Southern Alps where they switch bikes for runners to begin a challenging 30.5km mountain run.

The mountain run is a test of strength, speed as well as strategy.  The course is mainly off-trail with rocky riverbed often the only direct path up the valley, multiple river crossings, and an elevation of nearly 800m before the descent at Goat Pass. 

A short 15.5km road bike + run follows the mountain run.  Then, the highlight of the race is a 70km kayak of the Waimakariri River where the water flows swiftly in places and mixes long calm sections with rapids up to grade 2 in size.  It takes competitors from the heart of the Southern Alps out on to the Canterbury Plains where just one final 70km ride stands between competitors and the finish on the East Coast at the New Brighton Pier.  Check out a Coast to Coast race course map →Here 

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If you missed the live broadcast of 2018 Coast to Coast competition, there’s still time to watch the event.  Just click/tap the “Watch Again” button or choose from the video posts located on the video player below ↓

 

If you missed seeing defending champion, Sam Clark, come from behind to win the 2017 Coast to Coast Multisport Championship race in a time of 11 hours and 2 minutes, you can watch a video recording of this exciting competition.  Just click/tap the “Watch Again” button on the video player below ↓ 

 

 

The Time Travelers video chronicles six men as they set out to break the speed record for a 277 mile course through the Grand CanyonWatch as 8 paddlers set out on the dangerous Colorado River in an attempt to break the speed record through Grand Canyon (34hrs, 2 min) set in 2016 by Ben Orkin in a sea kayak

 

 

 

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Filed Under: Challenge, Live Streaming, Video Tagged With: Bicycle, Entertainment, Kyaking, Running

Mountain Bike

June 2, 2017 By Zola Zeester Leave a Comment

FREE To WATCH mountain bike racing via On2In2™

The Ortler Bicycle Marathon is an event organized each year by passionate bikers for the first weekend in June in the Venosta Valley, located in the western part of the province of South Tyrol, Italy, an area well-known for bicycle touring.  There are two race routes (“Marathon” and “Classic”), both taking the bikers through beautiful mountain villages, and past a monastery, castles, and mountain lakes with a start and finish at the small medieval city of Glorenza.

3D visualization video of the marathon routes:
Marathon –  Distance: 90 km; Climbing: 3.000 m
Classic – Distance: 51 km;  Climbing: 1.600 m

 

Information/Resources:
Tourist Info:  Mountain Biking in the Venosta Valley
International Mountain Bicycling Association – events, programs, news & alerts for the creation, enhancement and protection of great places to ride mountain bikes
USA Cycling Events Search – find mountain bike racing events and fun rides in 50 states
Big Mountain Bike Adventures – touring company organizes guided mountain bike trips world-wide

 

Exciting to watch cross-country cycling videos On2In2™ Free & On DemandAdventure thrills of Cross-Country Cycling  around the world
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Filed Under: Adventure, Ride, Video Tagged With: Bicycle, Entertainment

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