3rd Annual Ride For Their Lives – Benefit Ride for Carolina Animal Rescue and Adoption
// May 2nd, 2012 // No Comments » // Cycling, Local (Raleigh Durham)
Never have taken part in this, but the leader of the Raleigh Gyros posted this this morning, and thought I’d share the details:
Please join is in rural Lee, Chatham, and Moore Counties for a great ride. Roads built for cycling (no traffic), great rest stops, and a band at the end. You get to meet some of the denizens, have some CBC refreshments and lunch is provided by Cafe 121 (gourmet chef). The food is the best you will ever have on a ride!
New routes this year. Join us for a fantastic time!
When: Saturday May 12th (Every year, the first Saturday after Raven Rock)
Where: Deep River Park/Camelback Bridge just West of Sanford off Hwy 421
Times: Metric Century leaves at 8:30 AM
Half-Metric and 10 Mile ride leave at 9:00 AMRegistration and directions are at www.cara-nc.org
Organically and slowly, it seems North Carolina’s capital city is becoming more and more friendly to the two-wheeled riders on its street, though the article linked below is linking bike-friendly and bike lanes as virtually one and the same, which in some ways is true. If more government money is being used on projects for on-road cycling, that is a step towards making the tarmac more bike friendly. But for me, the real litmus test has to do with motorists’ on-street attitudes when encountering, passing and interacting with us on the road. Regardless, kudos to Raleigh for funneling more money to bicycle safety.
This was rumored to be true yesterday. Now it’s official. Back in 2004, the NHL Entry Draft was held at the RBC Center, but now the NHL has announced that Raleigh will host the NHL All-Star game in January 2011. Pretty cool. I just hope everyone coming into town for the game can figure out where to go to eat, as the area around the RBC is a wasteland — removed from downtown Raleigh and requiring a vehicle to get to just about any entertainment and grub outside of the RBC Center itself.
Sweet! Another Performance Bike shop is opening in the area — this one in Raleigh in the form of a 9,000 square foot Sutton Square shopping center store.
I just happened to stumble onto this after looking on Twitter to see if Garmin had an official Twitter account. It seems Garmin is opening an office here in the Raleigh-Durham area, adding about 40 jobs to the local market.
