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Great cycling, hiking, watersport, traveland adventure links!Links Index
Rolling Roads affiliatesJoe "Metal Cowboy" Kurmaskie Joe "Metal Cowboy" Kurmaskie
has been a favorite author and friend of Rolling
Roads founder Gary Hancq for several years, Gary and Joe have teamed up
to bring you a new kind of active sports vacation! Rolling Roads, Metal
Cowboy signature tours! Proceeds
from Rolling Roads will be used to support Camp Creative, Joe's Art's
& Expedition based summer camp situated in the Columbia River
Gorge, Oregon.Camp Creative  Rolling
Roads founder
Gary Hancq has
also joined the team on
Joe's new passion Camp
Creative, where
we will run an awesome Arts & Expedition summer camp for kids
and
their familes based in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. Writers,
Artists, Musicians, Naturalists and other creative professionals from
across America will be sharing their passion with
kids and adults as we bring the beauty and wonder of the outdoors to
the 21st century! As Joe says "Many
kids today are observers of their own lives as opposed to being an
active participant, It's time we get kids away from
the boob tube and back outside!" Camp Creative's Motto
"No Child Left Inside!" How you can help support Camp
Creative
You
can help support
Camp Creative by donating time, money, land,
vehicles, supplies and
equipment
(camping gear, canoes, bicycles, art supplies, and office equipment
would all be very much appreciated.) And you're donation is tax
deductible! For further information or if you'd like to make
a donation please click here Support Camp
Creative Top of
pageGearArkel Panniers Joe & Gary's tried and true luggage for hitting the road - and Joe's official sponsor. Good folk, great bags. Mention the Metal Cowboy and get 10 percent off.Wallingford Bicyle Parts - The place to buy your Brooks Saddle! One of the best Brooks guarentees we've ever seen, if you don't like it then return it no questions asked! BikeTiresDirect.com - Discount Bicycle Tires.
My Cycling Source - Cycling apparel, equipment, trips, heart monitors ? and reviews of great bicycles. Beginners and veterans are all welcome here! Top of
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Favorite Cycling pageswww.kenkifer.com/bikepages/touring Ken's life was about independence and finding a life that mattered within nature. He was a great campion of the bicycle and his webpages will help anyone looking for tons of info and inspiration about cycling. We'll miss you Ken!../MC%20Website/links.shtml#top www.riinsrants.info Riin Gill, knitter, spinner, cyclist, vegetarian, rabbit mom, expatriate wannabe... Rinn was a dear friend of Ken Kifer which is one of our favorite sites, she is also a very nice lady! www.crazyguyonabike.com The ultimate Bicycle Trip journal site! www.bikexchange.com Joe's pals out of PA run a great overall bike resource site. And put out fresh quarterly newsletter. Check it out for everything bike related. www.mikebentley.com Bentley's done the hard work of mining the net for the best and often most thorough collection of cycling related sites. He's a nice guy as well. www.bikekatytrail.com "America's longest rail-trail - The Katy Trail is a 225 mile crushed limestone paradise which crosses almost the entire state of Missouri, and follows Lewis and Clark's route up the Missouri River". It's a hidden gem. And now you can ride It with Rolling Roads & the Metal Cowboy! kentsbike.blogspot.com Kent has a great blog, and the owl picture is way cool! www.iowabicyclecoalition.org Iowa Bicycle Coalition, A strong group who are helping to make cycling more accessible and safer in the heartland! bikefriday.craftyspace.com What do you do on a Bike Friday? Joe liked these so much he bought one for himself! If you're looking for a folding, collaspsible travel bike this is the place to go! Folding Tandem Bicycles - Tandem bicycles are a fun way to share the biking experience with someone you care about, as a well as a great biking option for people with vision impairments. Learn all about tandem bicycles, recumbent bicycles and folding tandems here. www.tandembicycles.us Bike Journal Bikejournal is designed to provide you, the avid or recreational biker, with a convenient and fun way to track your rides and meet other cyclists for camaraderie, motivation, and even competition. Very Cool! www.bicyclepaper.com Find out what's going on in the Bike world, and read columns by your's truly! jim-wandering.blogspot.com Another Great blog by a personal friend, Jim's an interesting guy and he has a great outlook on the world. The WWW Bicycle Lane - Lots of great cycling links! www.bikeiowa.com  Scott runs a great site and provides an awesome service to Iowa cyclists! And he's a way cool guy too! For all things cycling in Iowa check out this site! www.bikeforest.com - These guys are on a mission, here's the opening blurb from there site: The Bicycle Forest aims to promote bicycles and other human powered vehicles as a viable form of transportation. Through renting out a large diversity of well maintained human powered vehicles from manufacturers all over the world, we hope to give people a taste of the various options currently available. Top of
pagePeople On a Missionwww.familyadventureproject.orgA family run site, inspiring families to live adventurously. Look them up for inspiring stories about families that adventure together in different ways and find many inspirational stories from another Family on a Bike. www.bicycletrek.org - A cycling couple whose aim is to raise funds for lung research while they cycle, they do this through the BC Lung Association to which all donations go directly - their first trip raised $8,000. All costs of the trip were paid by the couple. And they will be doing it again! www.familyonbikes.com - What do you get when you take two burned-out school teachers, their 8-year-old twin sons, and a brand new bicycle built for three? Nancy, John, Daryl and David found an entire year filled with magic on their Bikes! Top
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pageBicycle Touring Companieswww.outfittertours.com - Outfitter Bicycle Tours - Offering Grand Tour trips (Tour De France, Giro Italia) as well as trips in Italy and France, Group and custom self guided tours are available.www.pedalandseaadventures.com - A travel company offering creative bike (bicycle) tours for cyclists and outdoor adventurers looking to explore many of the world?s best places. They run bicycle tours in Canada, including Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island, as well as Ireland, Italy (including Tuscany, Sicily and Umbria and Puglia), Croatia, and Costa Rica. Top of
pageBike Clubswww.cascade.org - Cascade Bicycle Club - A Great club based in Seattle.www.portlandbike.org - Best bike resource in Portland and beyond! Go Jonathan! www.omaha-pedalers.com - Omaha is a great cycling city! I bet you never guessed! www.qcbc.org - Quad Cities Bicycle club, (Rock Island & Moline Illinois and Bettendorf & Davenport Iowa, another hidden Midwest jewel! www.twbc.org - The Tacoma Wheelmen's Bicycle Club welcomes bicycle riders of all skill levels, from beginners to advanced. Founded in 1888, TWBC serves "to promote and develop safe bicycling for recreation, health and alternate transportation." A Great Club that's been around forever! www.seattlebiketours.org - The Seattle Bicycle Touring Club is an informal group of recreational cyclists promoting Rides and Fun for its members in the Greater Seattle area. They have one of the largest cycling resource websites in the nation at close to 400 pages, 200+ area cue sheets/maps, +70 pages for start ride locations, links to every publicly available Pacific Northwest bike map and a 40 page LAB library for taking care of you and your bike. Top of
pageBike Shops River City Bicycles - The Cowboy's home shop in Portland Oregon! The Bike Rack - A Great shop in Omaha Nebraska! www.kearneycycles.com - Kearney cycles in Galway, Ireland - They provide bicycle repair and bicycle sales as well as bike rentals in Galway city and Galway County. They also sell and service garden machinery and lawnmowers. On Two Wheels - No Web site but the place to go in Davenport, Iowa - They have recently became a Trek Store. 3616 Eastern Av, Davenport, IA (563) 386-5533 Top of
pageGreat BooksMetal Cowboy - This list of links just wouldn't be complete without a link to Joe!Lynette Chiang - Gal From Down Under, You have to read her book "The Handsomest Man In Cuba" Lynette is an adventurette and writer of the highest caliber having traveled the world on her trusty Bike Friday, once you start reading her book you'll find it hard to stop! Viva La China! Lynette is also the Customer Evangelist for Bike Friday. The prince of folding bikes. Peter Jenkins - Author of A Walk Across America, another long time favorite of the Cowboy and Rolling Roads founder Gary Hancq. George Erickson - Author of True North: Exploring the Great Wilderness by Bush Plane, George is an adventurer of the highest order and a wonderful writer! Willie Weir  Another great Author, Radio Show personality and friend of the Cowboy, check out Willie's book Spokesongs! Top of
pageTravel & Adventure related sitesWorld Travel Options - Feed your travel bug and find inspiration for your next vacation here.Utah Trip Advisor - Utah Trip Advisor provides info on the "best of the best" vacation destinations in Utah. As a landscape photographer and a life-long resident, I hope to help you find the info you need to plan out and thoroughly enjoy your next vacation. Offroad Vietnam - Off-road information, tours and adventures in Vietnam on motorbike, moped scooter, motorcycle, bike, bicycle, car, junk, train and 4x4 vehicles, kayaking and trekking... Site features a tour library of detailed itineraries and photos from the road. Some of the most useful resources you can find on the web about traveling off road in Vietnam. www.bicycle-adventures.com - Great bicycle adventures with additional information about countries, mechanics, do's and don'ts plus stories from down the road. Cycling is an adventure and it's easy. Stories and info about many Asian countries like Malaysia, China, Thailand, Myanmar, India and Nepal plus Europe. www.madrid-guide-spain.com - Spain's Vibrant and welcoming Madrid explained by a native of Madrid Spain. Tips, Hints and Tricks to get the most from this Great City! Sports, Food, Culture, Music and more! www.farflungshores.com - Sister site to Madrid-guide-spain above, a worldwide travel directory. Farflungshores travel directory offers the best travel websites on the net. They carefully review each site by hand and only select those that offer: Value, Unique Content ease of use. www.family-adventure-travel-india.com - An online guide to rediscover adventure sports in India. Aimed at promoting family travels throughout India. www.nigeria-planet.com - Nigerian-Planet is the premier Nigeria information portal. On this site, you can find news, information and updates about the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Top of
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Very useful trip planning LinksPassport America - Campground Discount Membership.The Old Farmer's Almanac - Long-Range Forecasts Top of
pageFriends of Rolling Roads Links FOTO
RELIC wants you to remember the event,
not the photo shoot!They are especially excited to offer natural atmosphere couples photography, pre and post prom pictures, live band photography and more! Based in Omaha Nebraska, FOTO RELIC is owned by Jeffery Hancq (son of Rolling Roads founder Gary Hancq.)  Blue Hudson Group - A Sales and Marketing Consulting Firm specializing in Corporate Training Solutions. Their goal is to educate, train and support the people aspect of business, through the use of cutting edge management and marketing expertise, with personalized coaching and specialized development of key staff personnel.  Michelle
Bergkamp is a friend
of the Metal Cowboy and Rolling Roads, and a wonderful
photographer, one of her pictures was choosen for use on the
front cover of Joe's
latest book, Momentum
is your friend That's her son in the top 1/3rd of the cover.
Michelle has 4 sites, click the image at left to visit her
main site or click one of the following:Michelle Bergkamp BetterPhoto Gallery Lake Ridge Golf Course  A fine course located in Beaver Lake Nebraska, Tell them Gary sent you! Cool & Unique parts (works of art actually!) for your Harley! Steve Vai - Musician Extraordinaire  www.ericjohnolson.com A commentary on the web, business, technology, venture capital, movies, books and other great stuff (including cycling!) by Eric Olson www.lifesip.com Change the World -- A Call to the Fire Within! - Join GB Singh in his quest to change our lives and to change the world! GB offer's free life coaching and invites you to subscribe to his E-zine entitled Life Coach, free of charge. His E-zine publishes insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Top of
pageSubmit your siteDo you run a cycling, hiking, water sports, outdoor or adventure related web site? Would you like a link to your site added on this page? Simply add a link to Rolling Roads on your site, drop us an email pointing us to your link and we will add you here. (email the webmaster at the link in the footer below)Notice: Rolling Roads periodically verifies links exchanges made with it's partner sites, sites who remove or relocate reciprocal links without advanced notice and approval from Rolling Roads will be deleted from this links page. Please also note that we are not interested in linking to generic link directories or other linking schemes and we do not want links placed to us in such directories. NOTE: Rolling Roads is a family oriented business catering to all ages including children, we will not post nor link to any pornographic, obscene, offensive or otherwise unsuitable site, we as well do not want any links to Rolling Roads, Camp Creative or Metal Cowboy posted on such sites. Image Linking - If you run a site that is relevant and complementary to Rolling Roads, Camp Creative or the Metal Cowboy and you would like an Image link on our site please drop us an email with the following:
Rolling Roads Image Link - Right click on one of the images below to copy to your drive, then post the image link with the text and link locations as shown below on your site, send us and email with the location to the the link/s and we'll post your link/s. If for some reason we find your link inappropriate and not suitable for display on Rolling Roads we will let you know ASAP. Note: Rolling Roads will consider posting image links in prominent locations on this website in exchange for prominent locations on select sites, please contact the webmaster to discuss this exchange.
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