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...Bike around Cambridge with wife and boys...
...what's driving the movement toward chichi sideshows? Baby boomers, for the most part. They are the ones who can afford the often steep price tag that comes with these adventures (trips average about $2,500 a week, not including travel to the point of departure). As bike trips have grown in popularity, tour operators such as Butterfield & Robinson butterfieldandrobinson.com in Toronto and Backroads in California--two of the oldest active-travel companies--have learned that they can snag more customers with a tour that includes evening theater trips and fine wines than if it's just about the bike...
...freely admit that the amenities led them to pedaling. Serafini would never have taken the trip through the Burgundy region of France offered by DuVine Adventures of Somerville, Mass., this past June if it hadn't also included two daily yoga sessions. "I'd never been on a bike trip before, but I love yoga," the interior designer from Boston says, "and that's what attracted me." Of course, after a week of cycling through rolling vineyards and lavender fields, she was hooked on biking too. But the yoga seemed to be the real incentive. "I felt pampered physically, emotionally...
Pampered Cyclists Bike tours are offering extras way beyond fine Chablis. Yoga, spas and spies are also on the agenda...
Sporting cargo pants and carrying a bike messenger bag across his shoulder, the young software writer turned candidate knocks on every door to remind voters of the impending election in a low-key spiel punctuated with the words “cool” and “sweet...