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Many of you may not have noticed the recent change to the name of my blog, but a few of you may have and it’s for those few that I feel a need to explain.

Part of my goal for the blog and website is to grow it. Into what, I’m not sure yet. I personally want a bike jersey and maybe water bottles with the blog name and logo (something else I’m working on) for advertising. I would also like to be in a position to present the blog to bike tour companies for possible sponsoring of trips in return for covering the trip on this blog. Additionally, I would like to have more of a connection with other bike blogs as well as be a general source of bike info.

For any of that to occur I need to have a name that is tied exclusively to my blog and website. In checking recently I found another blog with the same name as mine, For the Love of Bikes. When I picked the name, For the Love of Bikes, I didn’t find anything else with that name – so I claimed it, because I liked it and proceeded with building this blog and website.

It appears the other blog with that name started the same year, 2009. I don’t know which started first, it doesn’t matter. I don’t want to proceed with For the Love of Bikes only to have the other blog challenge my right to use the name and I don’t want to challenge her.

To go forward this site and blog need its own name. All for the Love of Bikes is not used anywhere else: SO I’M CLAIMING IT NOW.

All for the Love of Bikesâ„¢ is now the official name of the blog. Not a big deal or change, but I wanted to explain. Maybe no one has even noticed, if so just move on to the next post.

I’ve come up with these “logos” so far; one I created, the others I paid a whopping $5 total for at Fiverr. This logo thing is in its infancy, and as you can probably tell I don’t have a clue about any of this. I have no background/knowledge/experience in doing any of this – blog/website included – but for better or worse it hasn’t stopped me.

Here’s what I have so far, what do you think – any of them any good or should I throw another $5 at Fiverr and get 5 more?

From Fast Company:

“Forever Bicycles”

Artist, Ai Weiwei, placed 1200 bicycles on top of each other – sans seats & handlebars.

It’s January which means it’s time to decide what bike trips we’re going to do this year! Winter time is for planning, spring summer and fall for doing.

Anyone have a bike trip or tour you would recommend?

We’re going to be on Vancouver Island in June and plan to do a little riding while we’re there. We’ll also be tacking on several days to spend in the Seattle area and will either rent bikes to use while sightseeing and/or take a 2-3 day bike tour or both.

Any and all suggestions considered!