BikeXcHange.com is a biking fan sight based in WV and gives race info
Title
The Bicycle Exchange
Description
I am a traveling teacher by trade and I often stick my bike on my car before I leave home. I work mainly in West Virginia and Ohio and occasionally in Pennsylvania. I live in West Virginia, most of my relatives live in Pennsylvania, but I have quite a few good buddies in Ohio. When I want a taste of the big city I zip into Pennsylvania but every once in a while I go a little further north or west into Ohio. A couple of years ago I cranked out a long, homemade solo bike tour that took me--you guessed it--from West Virginia to Ohio to Pennsylvania to West Virginia. Last year I completed a good chunk of the Cardinal Trail bike route in Central and Eastern Ohio. One weekend last month I stayed and biked at a state park near Philadelphia on a trip to the New Jersey shore. The next weekend I knocked off The Great Ride tour of 12 neighborhoods of Pittsburgh. Just a couple of days ago I watched fishermen in waders and kids on inner tubes floating lazily along Wheeling Creek as a pedaled a pleasant 24-mile loop from my home. I'm looking forward to some great organized tours in the next two months, especially my personal favorite--the North East Ohio Century--where I get to chow on scrumptious homebaked cookies and high five little Amish kids as I pass through a gently rolling paradise. But today, I'm heading up to Lake Erie with my brother and nephew visiting from California. Up there we plan to bike across the Ohio-Pennsylvania line a time or two. And still on my back burner is a trip to the mountains down south in my beautiful Mountain State to see if the ole legs are what they used to be as I try to climb my way out of a "holler."
Get the picture? Big cities, small towns, rural pastures, or posh suburbs. City streets, town squares, one-lane covered bridges, and strip plaza freeways. Giant mountains, flat plains, valleys, and gently rolling foothills. Lakes, rivers, streams and creeks. These are all in the great states of Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. These are were I live, work, visit, play and bike. And if you live in or nearby this region, it doesn't take many hours of traveling before you slip into a town or valley quite different from your your own. To me this is part of the thrill of riding, whether solo or group, whether self-charted or fully supported. Had he been in his youth today perhaps Jack Kerouac would have written On the Road about a couple of restless beatnik bicyclists, soaking in bits and pieces of Americana at 10 miles per hour instead of 60. Ah, now that's the way to see this great land. And no finer view of America is available outside our region.
That's why The Bicycle Exchange was created--to serve as a cyberspace information, entertainment, and market source for cyclists living in or visiting the tri-states. We hope that very soon we will have a "fat" online publication where you can:
Languages
English
Contact
- The Bicycle Exchange
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- Emsworth Pennsylvania
- United States 15202
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- 412-761-0119
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- Alexa: BikeXcHange.com
