Local Cycling has a recap and photos of the cyclocross season’s final race on Sunday.

The motorist in the January 2005 hit-and-run of 13 year-old Juan Portillo has plead guilty and will serve up to four months in jail for the felony of leaving the scene of an injury accident.  The charge can carry up to a four year sentence.
Juan was struck while riding near Truman and Bennington.  The motorist […]

Don't laugh too quickly, we do have the potential for some bicycle tourism.  Today the Star examines some of that possibility in an article about the Riverfront Heritage Trail.  A noteworthy statistic is that 1.6 million tourists bike and hike in Missouri every year, ranking higher than either boating or golfing.  Most of those likely […]

1. The Star reports on recent votes of the NKC City Council for bike/ped on the Heart of America Bridge and against the Paseo Bridge. Mayor Gene Bruns, who has long opposed the Paseo option, had to cast a tie-breaking vote.
2. The Star also featured the Prairie Village Yacht Club and other south side cyclists […]

NOTICE! The trails at Smithville Lake will be closed to cyclists and hikers this weekend.  The Missouri Department of Conservation is using the area for its annual youth deer hunt. Unless you want to become two-wheeled venison, please avoid choose another trail on December 16 and 17.

Here is WDAF-TV's coverage of the memorial for Robert Osborn, who was gunned down while biking home from work last year. safestreetskc.org is the web site where Robert's family shares their research into ideas for making KC a safer city.

The Missouri Bicycle Federation reports that next year's inaugural Tour of Missouri has just been awarded a 2.1 rating by the UCI, making it one of the top 3 races in the US and one of the highest rated in North and South America.

Sad but true… After seeing my bicycle fatality map, the Pitch asked KCMO for a list of bike lanes in the city. Even though we have so few bike lanes that they can be counted on one hand, no one at City Hall can do it. There is no list.

The Pitch: The […]

www.TourOfMissouri.com
It's official. The Tour of Missouri pro cycling race was announced today and set for September 11-17, 2007. It will join the Tour of California and the Tour de Georgia as the big three US cycling races and is expected to draw several elite teams from the US and Europe. In fact, […]

Missouri has been working to establish a professional stage race, and while it's not completely official yet, the Tour of Missouri has been added to the international calendar for September 11-16, 2007, right after the Tour de France. The eight stage race will likely start in KC, dip down into the Ozarks, and finish […]