Outdoor Recreation

St. Jacob Strawberry Festival and Berry Bicycle Ride This Saturday

Pedal on down to St. Jacob, Illinois on Sunday, May 19 for the 28th annual St. Jacob Strawberry Festival and Berry Bicycle Ride. The Berry Bicycle Ride will kick off the event at 7:30 a.m. at St. Jacob Township park. There are four trail routes for riders with different skill levels (super short, ... More >>

Cycling: Missouri Ranked Poorly in Bicycle Friendly States Report, Lowest Score Ever

As cycling advocates in St. Louis push to revive the Penrose Park velodrome, a new report says that Missouri on the whole is not a great place for cyclists -- in large part because the state lacks key bike-friendly policies and funding opportunities. Missouri's score as 30th in the nation is the s ... More >>

Biking in the Dark

Here Are Some Ridiculous Coachella Campsites

The Coachella campgrounds are the Wild West of the festival. They are the sort of place you can imagine Hunter S. Thompson running around with his pants around his ankles. Drugs are more plentiful than food and going to bed before 4 a.m. is considered an early night. Campers built incredible structu ... More >>

Bicycle Ban Bill: Will Missouri Lawmakers Prohibit Cycling on Some State Roads?

A legislative proposal to ban bicycles on certain state roads throughout Missouri hasn't been introduced yet, but cycling advocates across the state are hoping to spread the word and build opposition to the proposal before it's even debated at the Capitol. The legislation -- a draft version of wh ... More >>

The 9 Best Bike Shops in St. Louis

The weather right now screams for bike rides: Gone is the face-melting heat, gone is that freak cold snap from last weekend. So, stash your car keys in the junk drawer, lace up your shoes, and get to one of St. Louis' nine best bike shops listed below (in no particular order). And for more great ... More >>

Exercise, American Style

It's A Kitten! Belleville Bobcat Hit By Car Gives Birth in TreeHouse

That bobcat who was hit by a car in Belleville and saved by compassionate citizen Mike Neiner is doing very well at her temporary home, TreeHouse Wildlife Center -- as is her kitten. "Belle," as the mother bobcat is called, gave birth sometime in mid-April. Because bobcats are by nature extremely se ... More >>

D'eclair Your Love for Donuts

Mike Neiner: Illinois Good Samaritan Gives Injured Bobcat a Ride

​As Missourians continue to debate whether we should be able to shoot cougars when (if?) we encounter them, folks over in Illinois take a different approach to wild cats.Mike Neiner's wife called him from the road to say that she had spotted an injured bobcat west of Belleville, and that the cat h ... More >>

Buses, Bikes and Boots

For the Love of Cycling: New Website Sponsors Checkpoint Race This Friday

Matt Hartman wants to bring together the various local biking communities with his web forum and events calendar.​Matt Hartman can see the flowers. It's one of the changes he's noticed ever since epilepsy took away his ability to drive a car five years ago, forcing him into a biking lifestyl ... More >>

Insult to Injury? Missouri Offers Flood Victims Free Campsites

Meet your new neighbor!​Are you one of the unlucky souls who lost their home in the recent flooding? The State of Missouri is really sorry about that. In fact, they'd like to do something for you. They'd like to give you a temporary new home! A place that real-estate agents might generously descri ... More >>

Tree Toppers

Nightclubbing: HandleBar, A Bike-Friendly Watering Hole Opening in the Grove

​ The idea came to her at 3 in the morning on a Wednesday. "I had a mindgasm," said Tatyana Telnikova. Formerly of Cabin Inn at the City Museum, she's now the proud, proud new owner of HandleBar, a bike-friendly, sustainable and -- most importantly -- local bar in the old Bar 5/Church Key spo ... More >>

2010 World Naked Bike Ride in St. Louis Set for June 19

Photo: Egan O'KeefeCo, right and Pittman, at the start of last year's ride. See more St. Louis World Naked Bike Ride photos.​You don't have to worry about what to wear to the World Naked Bike Ride through St. Louis this summer, which has been moved up from its usual August date to June 19.Co-coord ... More >>

It's the Ladue Yacht Club, Dahling!

Image sourceWho is that handsome devil? Could it be attorney Al Watkins? Alas, no. "It is with the highest degree of regret that I inform you that I am not a member of the Ladue Yacht Club," Watkins told Daily RFT.​You may have noticed that there aren't many bodies of water in Ladue, unless yo ... More >>

Stream a New Song from Indie-Eggheads the Great Outdoors, Snag Its New CD Tomorrow

​The young, new local quartet The Great Outdoors -- formerly known as Leaking Africa -- is releasing its first EP, Board Up Our Homes, this weekend with a show at the Firebird. Homes is an interesting first release: The songs unfurl themselves in slow motion, driven by piano with faint jazz fi ... More >>

Tax-Exempt Missouri Yacht Buyers Might Be Drowned by Bills

Wikimedia CommonsAhoy, Jeff City! Days may be numbered for yacht owners' tax exemptions.​OK, what's more surprising about this scoop from the Kansas City Star? A) that Missouri is home to some 16,000 yachts, or, B) that none of 'em are subject to state sales taxes.The Star reports that as Jeff Cit ... More >>

Shift Gears

St. Louis Named Bike Friendly City

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26129297@N02/ / CC BY-SA 2.0Bikers on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge​How's that for progressive! This week the League of American Bicyclists named their Bicycle Friendly Communities for 2009. St. Louis was one of 15 cities new to the rankings and was singled out in the ... More >>

Ass for Clunkers

Blinded by the Light: Blind Pilot follows up its Decemberists tour dates with a headlining show of its own

At Camp Kumquat, City Kids Learn About Crops, Sustainability and Weeds

Earlier this morning, eight campers, age nine to twelve, and their two counselors, Washington University students, crouched around a potato bed in the university's student garden, the Burning Kumquat."OK, who here can tell us how long it takes for a potato to grow?" asks counselor Katie Anderson, wh ... More >>

Laugh on the Outside

It's Only Natural

Following the Missouri River 340: A How To

Video: St. Louis' First Naked Bike Ride

Hate Cycling Shorts?

Don't wear 'em

Video: Saint Louis Bike Tours: Maplewood

Make It a Pleasant Afternoon

Time to wine and dine

Bike to Work Week: A Dirty Business at Times in the STL

RFT reader to Rams: Tear down that roof

Get Fresh

Fresh air, fresh produce…)

Feets Don't Fail

Unreal runs like the wind (in our new support hose)

Wing It

Life Cycles

St. Louis-area bicyclists are still bitter over the sentence given to the man who accidentally killed Michael Katz.

Say Cheese!

Down Time

Try something new this summer — like skydiving

Look, A New Beer Garden Popped Up

Single-Track Mind

Boulders, Damn!

Wind in Your Hair

Miles and miles of bike trails for your riding pleasure

Cold Fishin'

Not science, but sport

Best Sporting Goods Store

Galyan's Sports and Outdoor Adventure

Keepin' It Wheel

Hop aboard your Schwinn and join the 39th annual Moonlight Ramble

Pool Sharks

No lifeguard on duty

Best Bike Shop

Big Shark Bicycle Company

Left for Dead

Schwagstock 10 offers good vibes, friendly faces and Grateful Dead-inspired jams

Taking the Plunge

St. Louis' suburban cities have been competing for years to build the biggest and best places to play. Around here, keeping up appearances is serious business.