cycling destinations, Gravel rides, Mountain bike rides
Two Days on the Virginia Creeper Trail
Mary approaches a trestle on the Virginia Creeper Trail a few miles outside of Abingdon.
Riding the Virginia Creeper Trail - Damascus to White Top
There’s not much that hasn’t already been said about the Virginia Creeper Trail.
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cycling destinations, Road Bike rides, Virginia's Blue Ridge Cycling
Cycling Twin Peaks - Cahas and Bent Mountains
If there is already another popular loop in the Roanoke area called Twin Peaks, tell me now -- but this seems like the perfect name for this amazing loop.
Riding on Wade's Gap Road
I know my friends
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cycling destinations, Gravel rides, Mountain bike rides, Uncategorized
New River Trail Foster Falls to Buck Dam
A week after the Governor shut down Virginia, we were still figuring out how to live our lives. For cyclists, the answer was to ride.
Foster Falls offers a start to one of the most scenic sections of the New
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Biking4Boomers, cycling destinations, Cycling with Sarcoidosis, Road Bike rides, Uncategorized
Cobbles, windmills, tulips and and a bit of royalty.
Cycling in Belgium and the Netherlands
Bumping over the cobbled streets of Belgium.
"Check it out. The flag is flying over the palace. That means the king is there," one of our cycling guides from Trek Travel said as we rode up
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cycling destinations, Road Bike rides
Riding the Going to the Sun Road
There is a reason
the Going to the Sun Road
should be on
every cyclist’s bucket list.
Bags out at 6:10 am. That was the mandate from the Backroads trip leaders the morning we were to bike to Logan Pass on the Going to
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Mountain bike rides
Mountain Biking the Winter Woods
The winter woods at Carvins Cove have an allure all their own.
Mountain Biking in Winter
Mountain biking in winter is not the same as other seasons. In some ways it's better.
As the wheel of my 29er dipped
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I betrayed my love, and now I’m left to suffer. The plastic ball full of whiffle holes bounced lightly in front of me. It wouldn’t hop more than a foot...
A sarcoidosis perspective on cycling My cycling has come a long way since I began lamenting the difficulties of riding while dealing with sarcoidosis and the multiple medications to keep...
Sometimes it just takes a little luck and a good guide. As we drove to the ride start of our gravel ride, my buddy Gary’s wife Barbara called. Thanks to...