In 2009 and 2010 NBG Director, Martin Krieg, has been busy Eagle HiWheeling America for the organization. However, scouts will once again be needed from 2011 on. In the same way the Lewis and Clark explorers did at the beginning of the 19th century, you can make history with us as an NBG Scout by helping us chart safe bike routes to those major population centers we will be celebrating with an NBG Day in them, here two centuries later. As you shepherd the mayoral proclamations (here is one of our favorites) we will have collected from big cities all throughout the US, you will have helped us we also begin the work of connecting the businesses and attractions within these cities to one another. This as a web fans out that connects the edges of these areas to one another from one coast to the other.

To qualify as an NBG Scout, you should be in excellent health, self-reliant, and have some previous bicycle touring experience. We will happily advise and assist you in selecting appropriate gear and routing for your ride. If we accept you, the ride is free of charge and yet you will be expected to pay for your own food and lodging. There is no sag vehicle or other on the road support (however, we can oftentimes satisfy requests you may have from the on-line bicycle community) nor is it allowed.

You or one person from your group (should you become a part of one) will be expected to stay in daily contact with the Ride Reporter assigned to your ride. In addition, we will need you to track your route at the site we will have reserved at Google's new bike maps on a daily basis. To see why Mark Lind is excited about the Mayors' Ride relays he has done, click HERE!

To see the ride that Don Loomis, he rode to Chicago for us in 2004, shared with his Ride Reporter, visit: Don's 2004 Ride Archives.