Mountain Bike Snow Chains. Discover traveling in nonslippery style during the snow season by investing in the best mountain bike tire chains around. I don't usually plug products, but these "Monit~r Traction Devices'"consist of steel chains made from aircraft cable that easily slip on and work better than studs. You may be basking in the sun now, but put your order in today and beat the rush, and you'll° be thanking yourself this winter. For more information, call Pit Bull Chains at (503) 656-7060. CEcotourism The Tokyo Bicycle Culture Center faces the US Embassy in Tokyo. Perhaps the Japanese Center is trying to teach our car-crazed c.ountry something about saner transportation. Inside the Center you' 11 find a walking tour of bicycle history with some hundred different bikes (including tricycles, compact bikes and commuting bikes), cycle displays, and test rides. They are located at Jitenshakaikan, No. 3 Bldg., 1-9-3 Akasaka, MINATO-ku,.Tokyo 107, ·Japan..Phone (03) 3584-4530. You'll als0 want to visit the Nerima Ward's rental program. Members have access to bicycles at any of the bicycle parking lots in the system. Auto-Free Ski Towns For those incurable ski addicts that are planning ahead, check out Zermatt and 29 other Swiss ski tourist cities for an internal combustion engine-free experience. Zermatt · even has solar buses in its electric bus fleet. Please send pictures if you see any human-powered ski lifts?!! Flying Bikes If you'd like your bike on your next plane trip with you, but are intimidated by the extra charge, consider joining the League of American Wheelmen. For the cost of membership, you are now entitled to r~ceive free bike passes (worth about $45) on TWA, American West, US Air and NW Airlines. For more information, contact the League of American Wheelmen at (800) 288- BIKE, or 190 W. Ostend St, Suite 120, Baltimore, MD 21230. If you fly into Missoula, Montana, you'll find a bicycle unloading and assembly area with a basic tool kit at the International Airport encouraged by BikecentenniaVAdventure Cycling's advocacy work. (Their Bike Report is $25/year from: POB 8308, Missoula, MT 59807). They also publish the very useful Cyclist's Yellow Pages with infq for any traveling bicyclist. To make packing and flying with a bike even easier, try out t.he new Bike Friday that collapses (29 minutes set up/down) into a Samsonite suitcase. Bike Friday reassembles into a beautiful riding bike. Trailer wheels attach to the suitcase that now carries all your other luggage on your first bike ride into Missoula. For more about Bike Friday, write Green Gear Cycling, 4065 W.11th, Unit 14, Eugene, OR 97402, or call (503) 687-0487.1 Rail-Trails generate a significant amount of money for nearby communities, says a recent National Parks Service Page 42 RAIN Summer 1994 Volume XIV, Number 4 study - between $130 and $250 per bike trail user annually. Rails-to-Trails Conservancy has concise literature ru1 information, about ho~ to-create trails, as well as where tli existing ones lie. Write'to Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, . 1400 16th St., NW, Washington, DC 20036. Confe~ences The Pro Bike, Pro Walk 1994 Symposium will be held September 7-9, 1994 at the Portland Marriott .in Portland. Oregon. Register before July 15th and it will cost $295, 1:: registration is $350. The cost includes some meals. What great opportunity to network, I'll see you ther~ ! Contact Kit Keller, Symposium Coordinator, W62N799 Sheboyg~ . Road, Cedarburg, WI 53012. While the Third International Conference For Auto-Fi Cities to be held in Mexico City was cancelled in 1993, it appears Amsterdam, Holland will be the 1994 host city. Corre.etions: Womyn's Wheel (bike clothes) has moved to PO Box 2820, Orleans, MA 02653 and the Bicycle Transportation Alliance moved to 477 SW i 1th, l?ortla OR 97205. For mon information, call BT at (503) 282-MOVE Is there something special you'd like to read about concemir bicycle advocacy? Write to Danielle Janes, 'fhe Bike Column, PO Box 30097, Eugene, Ore1 97403, USA.
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