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   I rode the Bicycle Tour of Colorado in June, and the Copper Triangle and Colorado Rocky Mountain Bike Tour in August. My blog features pictures and accounts from those trips as well as a lot of the rides I did in preparation for those rides. I like to ride on trails around town and country roads around eastern Kansas, and I love to ride  multi-day tours anywhere. I’ve done the Tour de Kota in South Dakota a couple times,  and would like to add BAK, Border Raiders, CANDISC, BRAN, RAGBRAI, and Oklahoma Freewheel to my list. Eventually a multi-day tour in every state would be awesome! In the meantime, I like to write about being a cyclist, riding, planning to ride, and everything that goes with it.

Many new submissions coming up!

Be patient with me, for some reason my email mechanism which alerts me to new posts was not working and we had a bunch backed up in there. If you’ve posted any time in the last few months it should be up soon! I’ll do two new ones per day just so everyone has their time in the spotlight! Thanks for reading!

Ch - ch - changes!

A lot of pretty significant changes to BikeBlogCollection.com in the last few days, the best of which I’d like to outline to everyone.

1) The blogroll - in the past the blogroll was just a list of links that no one ever clicked on. Now anyone who has submitted a blog to BikeBlogCollection.com is in an RSS feed for their particular category, for example Bike culture. The RSS feed (displayed as a webpage on each particular blogroll page) shows the first 50 words of the 15 latest posts. This is a very cool way to see what posts are worth reading, what might be interesting, and what has the newest content. In addition, anyone can subscribe to these particular feeds in a feed reader and not even have to come back to this page. There is some good stuff there, take a look!

2) Guest blogs and user submissions - Writing a guest blog for the front page for everyone to see or submitting your own blog with the standard generic format is now as easy as signing up for a free account, logging in, posting, and submitting. You have freedom over adding pictures, exactly what you want to say, everything.

I hope these new changes will make the site more friendly and useable for everyone involved!