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	<title>Biking the Hoosier Uplands</title>
	<link>http://mitchrice.us/bike</link>
	<description>Cruising Southern Indiana, weather or not</description>
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		<title>US DOT Bike-Ped Guidelines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ray LaHood, the new Secretary of Transportation, released these new guidelines, really remarkable stuff. It&#8217;s hard for me to believe he and I are on the same page in regards to this new policy, but tis true.
United States Department of Transportation
Policy Statement on Bicycle and Pedestrian Accommodation
Regulations and Recommendations
Signed on March 11, 2010 and announced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mitchrice.us/bike/2010/04/19/us-dot-bike-ped-guidelines/</link>
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		<title>Bike-Ped Safety and Indiana University, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
There has been are rash of injuries to peds and bikers, and even death, on the streets of Bloomington recently. I&#8217;ve been very concerned about this in that over the years many of my friends have been hurt, and at times I&#8217;ve come close. In every instance of person/car collisions, the car always wins. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mitchrice.us/bike/2009/10/14/bike-ped-safety-and-indiana-university/</link>
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		<title>Bike safety interview on WTTS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MItch&#8217;s WTTS Interview, Aug. 2009

Here is an interview I did on WTTS about bike safety issues in Bloomington. They asked me as a member of the Bloomington Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Commission, but I did not speak officially for the group, but for myself as a concerned biker/ped. 
I know I sound like Oscar the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mitchrice.us/bike/2009/09/10/bike-safety-wtts/</link>
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		<title>Tandem Ride along Lake Michigan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eileen and I vacationed in Chicago in August, and on the first day we rented a tandem bike at Millennial Park, and started riding north. We found the path a bit crowded, but everyone seems to get along fine, no crashes. We passed the volleyball courts, and rode out on a pier. I got my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mitchrice.us/bike/2009/08/11/tandem-ride-along-lake-michigan/</link>
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		<title>New bike racks in Bloomington!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years the Bike-Ped commission has been recommending (and getting) more bike racks as a way to encourage bike use in Bloomington,  and as soon as they are installed, they fill up daily. There is just not that much space left on the sidewalk, and so the city has installed on street bike parking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mitchrice.us/bike/2009/07/04/new-bike-racks-in-bloomington/</link>
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		<title>Morgan-Monroe Spring Ride</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After our great Virginia bluebell find last week, I was anxious to get to the Morgan-Monroe forest, where in years previous I&#8217;ve found the rare yellow lady-slipper. It was Sunday morning and we figured the highway would be pretty empty, so we headed out 10th St., and rode SR. 45 straight out to Tunnel Road, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mitchrice.us/bike/2009/05/03/morgan-monroe-spring-ride/</link>
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		<title>Road Rash Alert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week Jojo and I took the 80 degree weather as a sign to ride to Lake Monroe and test the waters, and that&#8217;s what we did (it was mighty cold, but refreshing). We decided to ride down the bike route south to Rhorer Road, and then down Harrell to Stipp. We had not decided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mitchrice.us/bike/2009/05/01/road-rash-alert/</link>
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		<title>Art bikes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been riding my Rans Stratus, a long wheelbase recumbent with a custom gear setup, for several years now, and I love it, I have seen no reason to look for a faster, tougher, or more reliable bike. I don&#8217;t think one exists, and if it does, it is probably too expensive for me.
But recently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mitchrice.us/bike/2009/04/30/art-bikes/</link>
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		<title>Toughest Hoosier Hills?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Updated Sept 5]
I&#8217;ve been using Google Earth for the last year to line out new rides, and by measuring the distance and elevations of the various hills, I&#8217;ve come up with Mitch&#8217;s Hill Toughness Quotient (MHTQ). The formula is simple, I divide the rise in elevation feet by the distance in miles, this is essentially [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mitchrice.us/bike/2009/04/28/toughest-hoosier-hill/</link>
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		<title>Kerr Creek-Brummett&#8217;s Creek Loop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first started taking longer rides in the country, I worked out several loops that I could do before work at 10 am. One of my favorites was the 23.6 mile loop that included 3 miles in the Kerr Creek valley, and 3 miles along Brummett&#8217;s Creek. 
Jojo and I were starting late on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mitchrice.us/bike/2009/04/18/kerr-creek-brummetts-creek-loop/</link>
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