March's Bicycling magazine featured 20 great bike trips that you
	don't have to plan...commercial trips that had prices from about
	$150.00 to $200.00 dollars per day.  Some of the daily miles
	listed were only 20-35.  Cost per mile is pretty expensive.  Too
	rich for me.
	For the last eight years year the Longview, Texas bicycle has
	sponsored a seven day bike tour on June 1-7.  This years trip
	covers about 450 miles in NE Texas and NW Louisana.  Each days ride
	is about 50-75 miles long but can sometimes be shortened or
	lengthened by the individual.  Indoor camping (school gyms as
	well as outdoor camping is available.  Registration fee is
	$80.00 prior to May 1.  Optional meal plan for breakfast and
	dinner is $80.00. Total cost for seven days is less than one
	day's cost on some of the Bicycling rides.
	The ride will include piney woods, lakes and rolling hills, National
	Forests, jail houses with gallows, antebellum homes and even a Civil
	War battlefield.
	For information call: 1-800-374-BIKE or write Texas Chainring
	Challange, 1609 Sweetbriar, Longview, TX 75604.
	PS.  Do any of you Canadians know on any tours of this type in
	Canada?
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