Oriental businesses who target athletes and fitness:

Body Balance Fitness Studio
Body Balance is a fitness studio that provides a safe non-competitive, compassionate environment for healthy lifestyle practices and general wellness.

Body Balance Plus
Nancy Schwarzer, Nationally Certified Massage and Bodywork Therapist.
Member: American Massage Therapy Association. "Healthy Muscles Function Efficiently and Without Pain."

Village Health and Fitness
The Village Club provides a full range of classes and equipment for general fitness and athletes in training. Personal coaching is also available. And they have a very nice pool.

Other North Carolina Bike Clubs:

Coastal Carolina Velo
This is a group of New Bern cyclists that ride on Saturday mornings from early spring through late fall.

New Bern Century Cyclists
Not so much a club as a guy with a website who organizes rides. They meet regularly on Sunday mornings in New Bern.

Down East Cyclists
This club is run by the cyclists at The Bicycle Shop in Jacksonville. They have regular rides and monthly meetings.

North Carolina Bike Club
This the huge bicycle club in Raleigh. As you might expect, it's a bit of everything.

Carolina Tarwheels Bicycle Club
This is the Durham version of the North Carolina Bicycle Club.

East Carolina Velo Cycling Club
This Greenville club has everything from leisure riding to Cat 2 and National Class Masters racing. They have rides several days a week.

Cape Fear Cyclists
CFC has regular rides around Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach all year and welcomes newcomers and visitors.

River City Cyclists
This club in Elizabeth City sponsors a big century ride in the Spring and weekday rides during daylight savings time.

Tarheel Cyclists
This is the huge club in Charlotte. They have regular rides and welcome visitors to most of their events.

Blue Ridge Bicycle Club (Asheville)
As you can imagine, this Asheville club has a lot of hilly rides. They have a great website with cycling info, ride maps and cue sheets. A great resource if you're vacationing in the area.

Sandhills Cycling Club
This is a serious group of racers, but they also welcome non-competitive riders.

Area Bicycle Repair Shops:

The Bicycle Shop, 909 North Marine Blvd., Jacksonville (910) 455-1011(website)
Bike Arcade, 1907 LeJeune Blvd., Jacksonville (910) 577-7022
Flythe's Bike Shop, 2411 Trent Rd., New Bern (252) 638-1544
Bike Depot, 412 W. Main St., Havelock, (252) 447-0834
The Bicycle Post, 530 Contanche St., Greenville (252) 757-3616
The Bicycle Post, 215 E. Arlington Blvd., Greenville (252) 756-3301 and (800) 682-7050
EJW Outdoors, 2204 Arendell St., Morehead City (252) 247-7659
Beaufort Bicycle, 127 Briar Patch Dr., Beaufort (252) 728-1203
Bikes-R-In,1020 Cedar Point Blvd. Cape Carteret, NC 28584 (252) 393-7161, toll free (888) 393-7161(website)

Cycling Resources:

North Carolina Division of Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation
The law on North Carolina cycling plus other useful information

League of American Bicyclists
A national advocacy group.

International Bicycle Fund
A non-governmental, nonprofit, advocacy organization, promoting sustainable transport and international understanding.

USA Cycling
This is the group that sanctions bicycle racing in the USA and selects the USA Olympic cycling team.

Cycling Specifics
Cycling Specifics is the Southeast's premiere cycling resource center for professional bicycle fittings and custom bicycle design.

Bicycle Adventure Club
This is a combination cycling/travel club run entirely by volunteers. They have rides all over the world.

North Carolina Rail-Trails
A statewide advocacy group trying to preserve railroad corridors and promote rail-trails.

Armchair Cycling:

Bicycling Magazine
The largest cycling magazine based on circulation, the website is full of good stuff.

Daily Peloton - Pro Cycling News
Where else will you find daily coverage of the Vuelta a Espana?

Bicycling Life
This site is interested in the promotion of cycling as a "normal" means of transportation for every day travel needs as well as recreation and healthy exercise.

Bicycle Transportation Engineering
"When you do it right, cycling is enjoyable. The enjoyment of cycling is the most important reason for doing it." Thus begins your first visit to John Forester's web tome on cycling.

Analytic Cycling
Analytic Cycling provides technical methods for evaluating and estimating cycling performance and parameters. It makes extensive use of differential equations and advanced numerical methods.

Mike Munk's Bicycling Web Site
Mike is a retired Air Force officer and has been dabbling in the sport of cycling since '89. He tries (and succeeds, for the most part) to create to inform, entertain, and inspire cyclists of all levels.

RoadBikeRider.com
This is an on-line magazine. Part of the site is for paid subscribers, but the free parts are worth a look.

Rivendell Bicycle Works
This very unique bicycle factory/store has a philosophy about bicycles that's just as unique. Check out their "Reader" section for some great articles on cycling.

Bicycle routes and trails:

North Carolina Bicycling Highways
Nine different routes covering 3,000 miles of the best North Carolina has to offer comprise the current system. Each route is described in a printed guide that can be ordered on the website at no charge.

Mountain Biking in Western North Carolina
This is a great site for locating trails in Western NC. Let's face it, if you like mountain biking, Western NC is the place.

TrailLink
A resource for locating bicycle trails nationwide.

New River Trail
This trail in SW Virginia has a good surface and is nearly flat. Nearby is Galax, VA, where they have the Old Time Fiddlers Convention every August.

Virginia Creeper Trail
Another great trail in SW Virginia, this one goes from Abingdon to Whitetop Station and will eventually connect to a trail in NC.

Washington and Old Dominion Trail
A unique recreational resource in northern Virginia: the W&OD trail, a 45-mile paved multi-use rail-trail that is owned and operated by the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority.

C&O Canal Towpath
The C&O Canal Towpath follows the route of the Potomac River for 184.5 miles from Washington, D.C. to Cumberland, MD. A great place to cycle away from the traffic and noise of D.C.

Bicycle Maintenance:

Bicycle Maintenance Guide and Riding Tips
This little manual is intended as a summary of what the writer has learned over the years. He is not a professional mechanic.

Jim Langley - Bicycle Aficionado
For ten years ('89 to '99), Jim Langley was the chief Technical Editor for "the world's largest cycling publication," Bicycling Magazine. This cool site could also be listed as a Cycling Resource or in the Armchair Cycling section. It's a must read!

Bicycle Repair:

Park Tool Company Repair Help
A really cool site for bike repairs. Look here before you take your bike to a professional bike shop. Even if you have them fix the problem you will be a more informed customer.

Articles about Bicycle Repair
Sheldon Brown is Parts Manager, Webmaster and general Tech Guru of Harris Cyclery in West Newton, Massachusetts. He has also written extensively about bicycles, for Bike World, Bicycling and American Bicyclist magazines, both under his own name, and the nom-de-plume "Christopher Joyce".

UMB Bike Repair Pages
This bike shop web site tells you how to repair your precious bicycle. You'll get acquainted with the tools you need, and learn about your options for repair or replacement parts.