cycling destinations, Cycling with Sarcoidosis, Road Bike rides
Vanquishing Thunder Ridge
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
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Biking4Boomers, meanderings, Road Bike rides, Uncategorized, Virginia's Blue Ridge Cycling
National Bike to Work Day
Biking to work sounds like a good idea, but what if it really is uphill both ways?
My expression says it all.
May 20 is National Bike to Work Day. So for the first time ever, I thought I'd give it
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cycling destinations, Road Bike rides
Roll Over Cancer Ride Franklin County, Va
Rows of Corn, Rows of Bikes
Rob Leonard is the organizer of Roll Over Cancer
I had forgotten how amazing Franklin County’s (Virginia) roads are for cycling, but the second annual Roll Over Cancer ride offered a great
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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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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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cycling destinations, Road Bike rides
The Mountains Were Calling... and So I Went.
An Adventure in Glacier National Park
The Backroads van picking us up in Whitefish, Montana.
Glacier National Park (Carlinthecyclist.com) Since I live in the mountains of Southwest Virginia, John Muir’s famous line, “The mountains are calling and I
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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 into the squish...
Sometimes Beer and Bikes go together very well Bath County, Va. (CarlinTheCyclist.com) — Through some stroke of luck I have landed on the list of media people who occasionally receive...
Cycling with Sarcoidosis, and the drugs to treat it can be challenging. Here is the story of my first year riding with this condition. Looking back on 2016, I should...
BEND ORE. (CarlinTheCyclist.com) Usually the ride is about the ride and the beer is just a chaser, just a part of the day, the experience, the journey. But when you...
Steam Trains, beautiful scenery and a long tunnel are all part of a ride on the Greenbrier River Trail. We took a great ride through a long and scary...
Riding in Bend When you live in the east, you pretty much only dream about riding in the west. Oh, sure we have awesome mountain biking here — some of...
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...