Posts filed under: Road Bike rides
The World Hunger Ride 50-miler Sometime in the early or Mid-1990’s, I decided I wanted to try riding a century. I had been mountain biking a lot and had recently...
Earning my beer: The trek up Thunder Ridge is sort of personal. As I wrote in a previous blog, the 12-mile climb up the mountain on the Blue Ridge Parkway...
The Farm to Fork Fondo Shenandoah, a great ride through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, with just the right amount of sustainability, fun and history. Add in an unusual evening...
Small Crash Big Effect I had gone around the curve at least a hundred times. It’s the best part of my regular evening ride – a left hand 90-degree bend...
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...
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...
The Star City Medio Fondo What’s 7,000 feet of climbing among friends? As it turns out, too much for my legs. “You know a ‘fondo’ is a race, right?” my...
Corn. Hay Bales. Barns. Ahhh. The Tour de Valley It seems I never get tired of riding next to corn. Or hay bales. The Tour de Valley, which starts and...
As I wrote in my initial blog about the Covered Bridge Metric Century, this is really a bucket list ride. The Covered Bridge Metric Century is relatively easy. I ride...
The Covered Bridge Metric Century By the time it started raining, I didn’t care anymore. Nothing was going to ruin this day. We had biked through five or six covered...
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John Carlin
I ride mountain, road and gravel bikes in the rugged country surrounding my home in Roanoke, Va. Photography, video editing, writing, and social media are sources of enjoyment for me, so this blog is really a guilty pleasure. According to Strava (and most group rides!) I'm an intermediate cyclist. My bikes include a 1996 Waterford steel road bike. Off road, it's a Cannondale Trigger 3. My Gravel bike is a Fuji Jari. Like most of you, I'm always dreaming about the next bike to join the stable. So many bikes, so little time.
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