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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...
I ride the same 20-mile loop on my dinner hour 2-3 times a week during warmer weather. This night almost ended in tragedy when my Shimano Ultegra crank simply snapped...
Genesee Cream Ale was a staple … There’s probably no brew in the nation that’s as close to 180-degrees from craft beer as Genesee Cream Ale. When I envisioned this...
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...
I know you're not supposed to order the lager at a craft brewery... But this time I did....
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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