Participating in these BRBC group rides has never been easier!

Beginning Monday 12/12/11, the Bike Sherpas Touring Co. will co-sponsor the Uptown Joe's "Lunch Vacation" Mountain Bike Ride and the Roanoke Bagel Company 3 Peaks & Adulare "Dream Rides".

The Bike Sherpas Touring Co. sponsorship is intended to make participating in these phenomenal weekly Blue Ridge Bicycle Club group rides easier, more fun and worry free. All riders need to do is get to the ride start with their bike ... and enjoy!

Guides from the Bike Sherpas Touring Co. will lead both rides and be carrying:

• extra water bottles, clean and filled with fresh filtered water, for ride participants
• comprehensive tool kit suitable for most trail/road side repairs and adjustments
• spare tubes for all applicable wheel/tire sizes
• tire pump as well as CO2 tire inflators
• first aid kit
• emergency blanket
• emergency use cell phone

In addition, anyone that attends these rides during the week of 12/12 will receive a FREE Bike Sherpas Touring Co. T-Shirt!

The Bike Sherpas Touring Co.  ... "We got the stuff."

Mia Birk's "Joyride" for $12 wholesale cost! Only 7 copies left! FREE bicycle delivery!

In an effort to catalyze the transformation of Roanoke into the bicycling capital of the east coast, this past April, copies of Mia Birk's incredible book "Joyride" were purchased directly from the publisher at the wholesale cost of $12 per copy. 

The simple goal was/is to get this transformative book into the hands of people in Roanoke so that they could read, talk about and share it.

There are 8 7 remaining copies available at this cost! 

We're also offering a *Holiday Bundle Super Deal* where for a measly $20 you can get a copy of "Joyride" and an incredible Bike Sherpas Touring Co. T-Shirt! Click here for t-shirt details.

To learn more about Joyride please visit www.miabirk.com 

*FREE Delivery* just send your address to orders@bikesherpas.com and either myself or one of my cycling cronies will pedal your new copy of Joyride to you!

Thanks for reading and please spread the word :D

Joyride: Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet tells the dramatic and enlightening behind-the-scenes story of how a group of determined visionaries transformed Portland into a cycling mecca and inspired the nation.

Through a panoply of hilarious and poignant stories, Birk takes readers on a 20-year rollercoaster journey of global and local discovery and education, while bringing into sharp focus some of the planet's most pressing and hotly debated energy and transportation issues, policies, shortcomings, and solutions.

Wearable amazing Bicycle Art! Low cost + FREE Bicycle Delivery!

Roanoke Virginia artist and cyclist, Hunter Dickenson, created this for the Bike Sherpas Touring Co..

The piece is very distinctively a Hunter Dickenson design, and the creativity, talent and detail it contains are absolutely outstanding.

Click here to view and enjoy a full-size image ... and have fun trying to pick out every item the Bike Sherpa is carrying!

Roanoke's Press Press Merch is skillfully applying this art to t-shirts, sweatshirts and tank tops, and all of these items are available at just production cost plus a 10% artist fee, which comes to:

$11 - Short Sleeve T-Shirt (Item #1)
$13 - Long Sleeve T-Shirt (Item #2)
$15 - Women's Tank Top (Item #3)
$18 - Crew Neck Sweatshirt (Item #4)
$20 - Hoodie Sweatshirt (Item #5)

In addition to this clothing being comfortable, low-cost and great looking, they are all * fabulous stocking stuffers * that promote and support cycling, art and Roanoke's newest bicycle (ad)venture ... the Bike Sherpas Touring Co..

To order, simply send an email to orders@bikesherpas.com with the Item Number, Quantity, Size, your cell phone number and the delivery address.

Orders are being accepted now through Thursday December 15th, and items will be delivered by bicycle to anyone within a 50 mile radius of Roanoke. Shipping is also available at a nominal additional cost.

Here's a proof of the Short Sleeve T-Shirt design:

Additionally, look for another design "Bicycle Sherpas LOGO T-Shirts" to be coming, and ...

If there's a clothing, casual wear or cycling accessory idea that you have for the Bike Sherpas Touring Co., please send your suggestions to rob@bikesherpas.com. Thank you!

Get a great shirt, a work of art, and support and promote cycling and local artists ... all for $12?!!!

Astonishingly, yes, this is now possible! Because ...

The art found on each "The Bike Sherpas Touring Co." product is created by a local artist, and 10% of what each item sells for is paid to the artist. Always.

So, in addition to getting a super comfortable shirt and helping to promote cycling and The Bike Sherpas Touring Co. ... when you buy one of the new "The Bike Sherpas Touring Co." long-sleeve t-shirts for $12 you are also purchasing a work of art and supporting a local artist.

And, our shirts are being produced by Press Press Merch, a fantastic Roanoke company with a reputation for "providing the best looking merchandise possible with fast turnaround times and unprecedented customer service." 

This week the art & designs for the first two shirts will be posted here and the artists will be announced.

If you're interested in purchasing a shirt please send an email to robertissem@gmail.com with the size(s) you would like.

If you're an artist and would like to promote cycling by creating art for "The Bike Sherpas Touring Co.", while earning 10% on the sales of all products that carry your art, please email me as well!