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Bike Pic Dec 7, Swiss Cheese & Spotted Cows Tour

A couple year’s ago, in this photo, Mary Dirks with the Swiss Cheese & Spotted Cows Bicycle Tour was looking for new routes. Wonder what she has planned for 2016?

Thanks for viewing the Bike Pic of the Day here at HaveFunBiking (HFB). 

Now, rolling into our 10th year as a bicycle media, our goal is to continue to encourage more people to bike, while showcasing unforgettable places to ride. As we search and present more fun photos worth a grin, scroll through the information and stories we have posted to help you find your next adventure. Then, while out there if you see us along a paved or mountain bike trail, next to the route you regularly commute on, or at an event you plan to attend with your bike, be prepared to smile. You never know where our camera’s will be and what we will post next!

Do you have a fun photo of yourself or someone you know that you would like to see us publish? If so, please send it our way and we may use it. Send your picture(s) to [email protected] with a brief caption (of each), including who is in the photo (if you know?) and where it was taken. Photo(s) should be at least 620 pixels wide for us to use them. If we use your photo, you will receive photo credit and an acknowledgment on Facebook and Instagram.

As HaveFunBiking continues to encourage more people to ride, please reference our blog and the annual print and quarterly digital Bike/Hike Guide to find your next adventure. We are proud of the updated – At-a-Glance information and maps we are known for in the HFB Destination section on our website and in the guide. Now, as the Bike/Hike Guide goes into its seventh year of production, we are adding a whole new dimension of bicycle tourism information available for mobile devices where you may see some additional bike pics – maybe of yourself so.

Bookmark HaveFunBiking.com and find your next adventure – we may capture you in one of the next photos we post.

Have a great day!

#FindYourNextAdventure

Tour of Minnesota Offers Many Adventures In Southwest Part of State

If you have time for a multi-day ride in June, the Tour of Minnesota (formerly the Klobuchar Ride) registration is still open to the 26th of May. Reminiscent of the years the ride was run by newspaper columnist Jim Klobuchar, this year’s tour begins and ends in Jackson, a southeast Minnesota community.

photo by John Hays

photo by John Hays

Approximately 160 miles from downtown Minneapolis, the ride leaves Jackson for Worthington, where you can take in the Windsurfer National Championship. Then it’s on to Luverne for two days, where the Buffalo still roam in Blue Mound State Park. Day four enjoy the scenic route to Pipestone and see the majestic Winnewissa Falls, along the three-quarter mile trail near the Pipestone National Monument. Leaving Pipestone ride on the oldest bicycle trail in the state of Minnesota, the Casey Jones Trail, stopping in Slayton and then Windom on your way back to Jackson for a taco buffet celebration.

photo by John Hays

photo by John Hays

Long time Klobuchar Rider and now advocate for the Tour of Minnesota, Doug Wilhide says it best. “We are old now, though we pretend not to be, as we mount our bikes like youngsters – step down on the pedals banishing pains in knees and thighs with frivolity, laughter and hope.

 

We form in lines out in the early morning sun noting the long shadows, mists rising from fields,
red-winged blackbirds warning us away from their sovereign territories as grasses in the wind wave us along from one small town to the next.

Into the wind, into the rain, along the uneven roads, through the inconveniences, we ride like people half our age, on a lark, turning a myth of youth we almost believe, into our peculiar reality.”

“We are old, but far from finished. We will cycle miles and miles until the day ends and be tired as we step down in the evening from better bikes than we ever rode as kids, alive in our understandings of ourselves and each other.

photo by Karl Blazevic

photo by Karl Blazevic

Then we welcome life’s essentials: a cold beer, a hot shower, a good night’s sleep and another morning to ride.”

If you have heard about the fun many have had on past  Klobuchar Rides and would like to explore the Southwest corner of Minnesota, there is still time to register. Fill out the ride registration form up until May 26th (Memorial Day). And if you have any further questions, send Bob Lincoln, the  new tour director a quick e-mail.