cycling destinations, Road Bike rides, Uncategorized
Capital Trail: Mile Marker 36 to Charles City Courthouse
A great bicycle weekend with history, alpacas and a renewed steel bike.
As you ride toward Jamestown the trail takes on different character.
The last time we rode the Capital Trail it was a chance to break in Mary's brand new gravel
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cycling destinations, Cycling with Sarcoidosis, Road Bike rides, Uncategorized
One Month, Two Centuries
Punching back at Sarcoidosis with two century rides
In May, I attempted to ride two 100 mile or century rides.
I've been blogging about riding with sarcoidosis, an auto-immune disease that lodged itself on my spinal cord a few years ago.
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Cycling with Sarcoidosis, Mountain bike rides
The Road to Recovery is Covered in Snow
I wondered if I was ever going to ride my bike again.
This is a happy post. It really is. But honestly, I wasn’t sure if I’d ever get to write it. It's all because of an illness called sarcoidosis.
In January
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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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Biking4Boomers, cycling destinations, Mountain bike rides
Mountain Bike Carvins Cove
Video tours of the trails at Carvins Cove
Christmas was good this year.
Santa brought me an Insta 360 Camera. And I'm already putting it to use on the trails at Carvins Cove.
The Cove, in Virginia's Blue Ridge, the region surrounding
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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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Biking Hurricane Cliffs turned out to be very doable and a lot of fun! We were set for a bike and hike trip adventure with Backroads — the excellent touring...
The Harvest Tour is a new way to celebrate early autumn from the seat of your bike — with some interesting stops along the route. Botetourt Co. Va. – Mary...