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Gravel Camp - How to properly bike the road less traveled. Bike Gear, cycling destinations, Gravel rides, Uncategorized, Virginia's Blue Ridge Cycling In the Summer of 2023, Cardinal Bicycle of Roanoke invites you to learn how to enjoy the real backroads. Gravel Camp is a fun way to think of a series of four rides offered in the summer of 2023 in Virginia's Continue Reading Remembering Paul Sherwen cycling destinations, meanderings, Uncategorized, Virginia's Blue Ridge Cycling Paul Sherwen joined me for broadcasts of the Tour DuPont. Paul Sherwen - "The soundtrack of a generation" The voice of Paul Sherwen, the late cycling broadcaster has been repeatedly called the "soundtrack" for a generation of cycling Continue Reading Farm to Fork Fondo Hudson Valley cycling destinations, Road Bike rides Farm to Fork Fondo is an amazing series of bike rides that include cycling events throughout the warmer months.  Bike rides are offered in places like Maine, Vermont, Pennsylvania, the Berkshires and the beautiful ride we did in New York's Continue Reading Vanquishing Thunder Ridge cycling destinations, Cycling with Sarcoidosis, Road Bike rides It's been a almost year since what was probably the worst ride of my life.  Oh sure, there are those hard rides you later think of as epic, but this wasn't one of those.  In fact, I didn't know this Continue Reading The Apple Watch and other Cycling Gadgets. Bike Gear, Gravel rides, meanderings, Road Bike rides Do Garmin, Strava and Apple Watches enhance your ride experience? For me, ride technology is a guilty pleasure. The Workout app on my Apple Watch. I can't start a ride without it. Thanks to my Apple Watch and other stuff, Continue Reading Biking Burke's Garden - Galloping Horses and Fried Apple Pies cycling destinations, Road Bike rides The annual Burke's Garden Century and Metric Century are a tradition in Virginia's New River Valley.  I rode in the event for the first time this year, and though I was tempted to do the full 100 miles, I wasn't Continue Reading

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I set out to learn more about Virginia for its 250th anniversary. Instead I learned some hard lessons about e-bikes....
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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...
Cycling through Belgium and The Netherlands means windmills, tulips and cycling narrow European streets. Wonderful....
I was convinced my stuff didn't stack up when in reality I was dangerously close to wearing a tux to a barbeque....
A 400-mile trek along the Erie Canal Trail is more than a bike ride. My wife and I set out with some friends – and about 600 other people to...
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...