If you go to Windham

By Christina Tree, Globe Correspondent

For the Vermont Traveler's Guidebook and ''Bicycling in Vermont'' Amtrak pamphlets, phone (800) VERMONT.

For Bike Vermont Inn-to-Inn Bicycle Tours, phone (800) 257-2226 and for Vermont Bicycle Touring, phone (800) 245-3868.

Northeast Kingdom Cycling (800-639-5234) custom-designs tours and tranports luggage between inns. Balloon Inn Vermont Vacations (800-666-1946) transports luggage between two B & Bs in the Connecticut River Valley and will also arrange hot-air balloon rides. Cycle-Inn-Vermont (802-228-8799), based in Ludlow, and Country Inns Along the Trail (802-247-3300), based in Brandon, are both composed of innkeepers who supply maps and move luggage between their respective inns.

Bicycle Holidays (802-388-BIKE) offers custom-designed and ready-to-ride Vermont Vacations, with or without rentals.

For Majic Mountain Cycling phone or fax (802) 496-2614, and for POMG, phone (888) 635-BIKE.

For Escape Routes, phone (802) 746-8943, and for Craftsbury Outdoor Center, (800) 729-7751.

For Mount Snow Resort Mountain Bike Center, (802) 464-3333 (inquire about theme weekends). Jay Peak Mountain Bike Center (802-988-2611) will be offering mountain bikers free lifts on its aerial tram June 28 (rides are otherwise $5). The Kilington Mountain Bike Center (802-422-6232) offers 40 miles of trails as well as tours and access to 4,241-foot Killington Peak via a double chairlift. Stratton Sports (800-STRATTON or 802-297-2200) also offers rentals, tours, and lifts to the top on its gondola, and Sugarbush Resort Sports (802-583-2381) offers lift-served biking at Lincoln Peak.

Newfane Off-Road Biking (802-365-7723 or 365-4782) offers rentals, self-guided, and guided day and inn-based tours.

Paul Rea is the man at both Slab City Bike & Sports and the White River Valley Trails Association; phone (802) 728-4420.

For Green Mountain Bicycles, phone (802) 767-4464; for Mad River Bike, (802) 496-9500; for the Mountain Bike Shop, (802) 253-7919; and for Blueberry Hill Inn, (800) 448-0707.

John Freidin's ''25 Bicycle Tours in Vermont,'' updated in 1996, remains the Vermont road tourer's bible, and ''25 Mountain Bike Tours in Vermont'' by William Busha is also the best book on the subject at the moment. The new ''Lake Champlain Region Road Map and Guide'' ($3.95) is available from Northern Cartographic (802-860-2886, or fax:865-4912), and for an accomodations directory and event listing, phone the Lake Champlain Visitors Center at (518) 597-4646.

For a copy of ''Bicycle Touring in Vermont and Vermont's Scenic Byways Program'' by Bruce Burgess, phone (802) 828-3960.

''Pedal Power'' at the American Precision Museum (open daily) celebrates the invention and evolution of the bicycle.