{"id":10242,"date":"2015-12-08T12:19:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T20:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=10242"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:00:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:00:43","slug":"jersey-bents-joins-group-that-will-support-nbg-2016-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/12\/08\/jersey-bents-joins-group-that-will-support-nbg-2016-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey Bents Joins Group that will Support NBG 2016 Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseybents.com\/\">Jersey Bents<\/a><\/b>, a recumbent dealer in Hamilton Square, New Jersey just joined the National Bicycle Greenway sponsor line up for the 2016 season that\u00a0you can see in the graphic below. The businesses you see here will all travel with me from May to August (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/events\/\">here is our schedule<\/a><\/strong>) when we do our NBG Day Tours in <b>Davis<\/b>, <b>Santa Cruz<\/b>, <b>San Jose<\/b>, <b>Palo Alto<\/b>, <b>San Francisco<\/b>. <b>Oakland<\/b>, <b>Sacramento<\/b> and <b>Reno<\/b>. They will also be with me when I do the research in our east coast <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/indexNBGBikingCities.php\">NBG Anchor Cities <\/a><\/strong>of <b>Chicago<\/b>, <b>Indianapolis<\/b>, <b>Cincinnati<\/b>, <b>Pittsburgh<\/b> and in all likelihood <b>Washington DC\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0that will enable us to give them NBG Day Tours in 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In moving forward in this way, are adding a twist to the approach the US Government took at the turn of the last Century. In 1905 they formed\u00a0the\u00a0Office of Public Roads (OPR)\u00a0\u00a0to design and build roads to America\u2019s National Parks and National Forests.\u00a0 When the OPR graded and covered the dirt access that already existed\u00a0 to these locations with\u00a0gravel, stone, sand-clay, brick, shells or oil, they encouraged motor travel at a point in history when people saw little use for the car.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">By celebrating the 19\u00a0NBG Anchor Cities<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/indexNBGBikingCities.php\">\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0that hold our route from\u00a0San Francisco to Washington DC together (see the route at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/\">BikeRoute.com<\/a><\/strong>) with NBG Day Tours that show cyclists where to ride, eat. sleep, shop and play in them, we are encouraging bicycle travel as a way to reverse engineer the mess cars have made of America. This as we build the\u00a0National Bicycle Greenway both in consciousness and in form!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NBGSponsors.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBG Sponsors<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-shot-2015-12-08-at-10.33.33-AM.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10243\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/12\/08\/jersey-bents-joins-group-that-will-support-nbg-2016-tour\/screen-shot-2015-12-08-at-10-33-33-am\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-shot-2015-12-08-at-10.33.33-AM.png?fit=811%2C521&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"811,521\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen shot 2015-12-08 at 10.33.33 AM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-shot-2015-12-08-at-10.33.33-AM.png?fit=811%2C521&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10243\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-shot-2015-12-08-at-10.33.33-AM.png?resize=811%2C521\" alt=\"Screen shot 2015-12-08 at 10.33.33 AM\" width=\"811\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-shot-2015-12-08-at-10.33.33-AM.png?w=811&amp;ssl=1 811w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-shot-2015-12-08-at-10.33.33-AM.png?resize=600%2C385&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0THX 4 all of U!!<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jersey Bents, a recumbent dealer in Hamilton Square, New Jersey just joined the National Bicycle Greenway sponsor line up for&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/12\/08\/jersey-bents-joins-group-that-will-support-nbg-2016-tour\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-2Fc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12667,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2017\/04\/13\/how-does-the-nbg-fest-get-a-greenway-built\/","url_meta":{"origin":10242,"position":0},"title":"How does the NBG Fest Get a Greenway Built?","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"April 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"How does the NBG Fest Get a Greenway Built? 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