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		<title>NRVBA Board Meeting &#8211; UPDATED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE:
The NRVBA Board will meet on September 21, 2010 at 7 pm at the Blacksburg YMCA to discuss planning issues surrounding 2011 Mountains of Misery and 2011 Bike Virginia which will occur within a month of each other.  The Board will be making decisions about the two events.  The meeting is open to the public.
Original [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nrvbike.com/nrvba-board-meeting/</link>
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		<title>State Bicycling Policy Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has developed the State Bicycle Policy Plan to ensure bicyclists are an integral component of Virginia’s multimodal transportation system, and to provide bicycle policy recommendations that will guide the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of bicycle accommodations.
The draft plan provides strategies and identifies opportunities for enhancing the implementation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nrvbike.com/state-bicycling-policy-plan/</link>
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		<title>Huckleberry Trail Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends of the Huckleberry Trail are hosting a brief informational session at 2 pm on Sunday, August 1st at Mill Mountain.  Bill Ellenbogen and Lance Matheson, two long time trail promoters, will be present to provide the latest information about trail expansions, time frames and funding needs.  The meeting will be informal and is open [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nrvbike.com/huckleberry-trail-update/</link>
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		<title>Six Hours of Dirty Dawg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We mountain bikers finally decided to make the Dirty Dawg mountain bike race even more unique. Mountain Lake already offers so much in trail diversity so why not spend six hours riding those trails. So, The Six Hours of Dirty Dawg was born.  
The course is short but will provide riders with 4.5 miles of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nrvbike.com/six-hours-of-dirty-dawg/</link>
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		<title>Opportunities for Shoulder Improvements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NRVBA has been talking with the New River Valley Planning District Commission (NRVPDC), Montgomery County, and VDOT representatives about short-term options for improving cycling conditions on our favorite recreational routes in the area.  VDOT has suggested that road maintenance funding may be used to repair and improve shoulders, if and where sufficient graveled foundation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nrvbike.com/opportunities-for-shoulder-improvements/</link>
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		<title>Bike the US for MS – Arrives in Blacksburg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bike the US for MS, a group based here in Blacksburg, organizes an annual cross-county bike rides to benefit Multiple Sclerosis causes.  This year, the organization is riding the Trans America route and will be coming through Blacksburg on Sunday, June 6th.  The organization would love for local cyclists to join the group on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nrvbike.com/bike-the-us-for-ms-%e2%80%93-arrives-in-blacksburg/</link>
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		<title>Town Begins Pedestrian/Bicycle Improvements at Turner and Webb Streets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Town of Blacksburg Department of Public Works will begin roadway improvements at the intersections of Turner and Webb Streets and Price’s Fork beginning June 1st.  These improvements are proposed to increase bicycle and pedestrian safety at this heavily used midblock crosswalk.  Work will consist of roadway realignments designed to reduce vehicular speeds; however, with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nrvbike.com/town-begins-pedestrianbicycle-improvements-at-turner-and-webb-streets/</link>
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		<title>Check Out Our New Website!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been working on our website, so that we can provide our members and the community great resources to get more people out and biking. We invite you to check it out and let us know what&#8217;s missing or what you love!
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		<link>http://nrvbike.com/check-out-our-new-website/</link>
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		<title>2010 Radford Ride for Silence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The annual International Ride of Silence was observed locally in Radford on Wednesday, May 19, 2010. Hosted by Pathways for Radford and the NRVBA, eighty-nine (89) riders and several supportive bystanders participated in the local ride. Uniformed and plain-clothed officers came out on bicycles to ride with the participants and show support. Several police vehicles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nrvbike.com/2010-radford-ride-for-silence/</link>
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