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Tour de Grove
6:17 am
Fri May 18, 2012

Life cycle of a bike race: Tour de Grove evolves into top cycling event

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Credit Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio
Riders mass for the start of the Category 2/3 race at the Tour de Grove. This was a top amateur race of the weekend.
Credit Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio
Riders roll in the Category 2/3 race.
Credit Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio
Rounding the turn at the Tour de Grove.
Credit Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio
Credit Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio
Neighborhood kids take in the action of the Tour de Grove.
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Some of the top athletes in their sport were in St. Louis last weekend.

They weren’t wearing the birds and bats of the Cardinals, and they didn’t draw the crowds of a weekend series at Busch Stadium. But the contest known as the Tour de Grove is slowly but surely becoming a big draw in the world of professional cycling.

The atmosphere on a warm spring Saturday afternoon in the Grove has the feel of a gigantic street party. People line Manchester Avenue sipping beer, snacking on the wares of street vendors, and listening to music.

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Bike parking
2:19 pm
Wed April 4, 2012

Mayor Slay signs bike parking bill

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Mayor Francis Slay (middle) signs the city's bike parking ordinance with Ald. Scott Ogilvie (left) and members of Slay's young adult advisory panel.
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St. Louis has joined cities like Minneapolis and Seattle in requiring developers and rehabbers to install bike racks in certain projects.

Mayor Francis Slay signed the bike parking ordinance at City Hall on Wednesday. It requires developers and rehabbers of most projects over $1 million to install at least one bike rack that can hold at least two bikes.  The offsite parking requirement is reduced by one space for every bike rack that's installed.

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A Good Year St. Louis: bikes
6:35 am
Tue December 27, 2011

Cycling advocate calls 2011 "fabulous" year for bikes

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Trailnet executive director Anne Mack stands outside the downtown bike commuter station, one of the main reasons she calls 2011 "A Good Year" for bikes.
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With average gas prices reaching their highest level in 2011, more and more people began looking for an alternate way to get around.

In St. Louis, many of those commuters turned to vehicles of the two-wheeled variety.

Anne Mack, the executive director of Trailnet, told St. Louis Public Radio’s Rachel Lippmann as part of our series “A Good Year” that cyclists had a “fabulous” 2011.

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