[ December 8, 2007 to December 9, 2007. ] This year’s Missouri Cyclocross Championships are in Hermann, accessible from the Katy Trail State Park and home to many wineries.

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Today MoDOT released plans for the Paseo Bridge replacement, to be known as the Christopher S. Bond Bridge. As promised, the design allows for a bike/ped lane to be added in the future, once there are levee trails for it to connect to.
The choice of a cable-stayed bridge means that the road bed has [...]

Next month Kansas City is hosting the 2007 national championships for cyclocross, and the organizers need lots of local volunteers to make it success.  You can volunteer on site during the event, or open your home to host a racer from out of town.

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Cyclocross championships web site

[ December 12, 2007 to December 16, 2007. ] Location: Wyandotte County Park in KCK

More info at www.kccrossnationals.com

The KC region has been struggling for years to get access to levees along the Missouri and Kansas Rivers in order to build trails, something that is common in neighboring cities like St. Louis, Omaha, even Hannibal. The problem is a patchwork of secretive levee ownership districts controlled by just a few big businesses.
One example [...]

A Waldo resident reports a wreck involving two bikes at the corner of 75th and Jarboe, one block east of Ward Parkway.
Update at 5:15 p.m. - Fox 4 just reported that the bicyclists were going westbound on 75th Street when they made a U-turn and one of them collided with a truck.  He is in [...]

Last night a 17 year-old Independence bicyclist was hit and killed by a car fleeing from police. The car had been involved in another hit-and-run just minutes before. Police were able to catch the killers and they are in jail facing several felony charges. The police identified the bicyclist as Christopher Cooper, a [...]

Don’t forget tonight at The Record Bar there is a fund raiser for Erick Sharda, the cyclist who was severely injured in a hit-and-run crash in Midtown this past August.

This week’s Pitch has a big feature on cyclists who have been killed or injured in car/automobile encounters, including a photo gallery of many folks you might know or have ridden with. It’s written by Carolyn Szczepanski, who is a cyclist herself.  While the lead-in is overly dramatic and doom-and-gloom, the actual profiles are quite [...]

The Right Ride is a new web site that lets bicyclists map out road hazards and warn others about bad spots to avoid or be careful at. I asked them include KC and you can check it out at kansascity.therightride.org.