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Rides in Ohio in 2012
Ohio Bicycle Events Calendar
The above link is to the 2011 calendar of events. Stay tuned for news of this riding year.
Share the Road Plates
Do you drive a car? Do you ride a bicycle on the road? Do you have friends or employees that are cyclists? The state of Ohio offers a special license plate for cyclists and friends of cycling. This license plate can be a unique gift idea for a friend, an employee or yourself!
On Wednesday, December 22, 2004, Governor Bob Taft signed the Share the Road license plate into law as part of House Bill 406. This law culminates five years of efforts by the Ohio Bicycle Federation to create an auto license plate which will publicize the importance of motorists sharing Ohio's roads with bicyclists.
Get your SHARE THE ROAD plates before it is too late..571 license plates have been sold in 2011 through April 28.
Goal: To sell 1000 plates each calendar year. Why this goal? Because the State of Ohio will cease issuing the license plates unless 1,000 are sold each calendar year, January 1 through December 31. Thus, to insure future availability, the Ohio Bicycle Federation has set this annual goal. The funds generated by the sale of this plates are used for publication of the valuable bicycling safety pamphlet, Ohio Bicycling Street Smarts. So it's important for all of us to buy or renew the special plates, and encourage others to do likewise.
As it is a special plate there is an additional cost over the standard renewal fee, however please consider supporting bicyclist/motorist education by purchasing this license plate. The Ohio Bicycle Federation reports for the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 there were 919, 1546, 1805, 2092, 2137, and 1997 Share the Road license plates sold, respectively, for a total of 10,496 plates in all!
For more information, please visit: https://www.oplates.com/ or www.ohiobike.org
Or pedal to your local deputy registrar.
Or call 1-800-589-8247.
How to obtain your plates
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Our ride on a new trail
Don and I spent a lovely Sunday afternoon riding on a new trail in our area- the County Line Trail between Rittman and Creston.
This is a multi use trail just competed in 2011. The above picture includes Don riding his Catrike 700. Don is smiling as this is a paved trail, and it is a perfect trail for trikes. We have found the crushed limestone trails to be problematic when riding the trike as there is no way for all three wheels to ride in the tamped down section of the path. We started our ride on this trail in Rittman.
The Rittman end offers parking at the trail head which is just south of the east end of Ohio Ave. We rode approximately 3 miles on the trail and then needed to ride on the road for almost a mile. The trail web site indicates the reason for this is that Rails to Trails was not able to fully secure a right-of-way for the section from C.R. 504 to Kauffman Avenue in Sterling. However, the road section is clearly marked with green signs, and we found the road to be very lightly traveled even on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
The trail ends at Creston and you turn around and ride back to Rittman. We recorded a 13 mile round trip and are looking forward to a return trip.
FYI: 2012 Scheduled Rides
Dave McKinley, a member of both the Akron Bicycle Club, and Stark County Bicycle Club will lead these rides.
Dave does not have any rides scheduled for January or Febrary and neither do we. We are looking forward to Spring!
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