Don’t miss the mid-Atlantic’s largest indoor bike swap and consumer expo, at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds (near Richmond) on Sunday, March 7, 9am-2pm. Sell your old bikes and parts, and take advantage of unbelievable deals. Buy, sell, browse, shop, trade, or just hang out with industry reps, individual vendors, bike shops, manufacturers, and like-minded cyclists! For more information, or to register as a vendor, see the Stop, Swap, and Save website. Join their email list for the latest updates and developments.

Recently we reported on another crowdsourced mapping project in Blacksburg, but now some Virginia Tech students, and free culture enthusiasts, have a mapping project of their own — putting all the campus bike routes into Open Street Map. To make it more of a party, there will be a raffle with some nice prizes, including an Android G1 phone. Here are the details, from Christopher Covington: [continue reading…]

Here’s a glimpse of the New Trail at the Massanutten Four Seasons Resort, built by volunteers from the Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition. Virginia has a thriving mountain bike culture, and this video shows what it’s all about!

This trail is on private resort property, but you can ride it legally with a Massanutten trail pass.  You can also get a trail pass through the SVBC, by doing 3 days’ worth of trail work, or by paying $50 in addition to your membership.

Video by our own Chris Scott of Shenandoah Mountain Touring, featuring Kyle Lawrence and Thomas Jenkins from the Shenandoah Bicycle Company.  Edited by SMT intern Tyler Spurlock from James Madison University.

Blacksburg is abuzz with bike planning these days. The New River Valley Bicycle Association, Town of Blacksburg, and Geospatial IT Dept. at Virginia Tech have teamed up to create a web-based interactive bike map, where cyclists can document their everyday trips. The data collected will help identify which roads and other infrastructure should be improved to accommodate cyclists. Most needed are continuous, contiguous routes through downtown, to make commuting and errands by bike more appealing. The NRVBA has the story.