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,
The Tallboy is five years old -- but it's better than new.
I recently acquired a Santa Cruz Tallboy. Like any red-blooded American man the first thing I wanted to do was add some upgrades
But nothing says, "You can't get that
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.
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
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
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 bridges, the Amish farms were spectacular and the Amish themselves were
The Ride This is a clear case where the beer was waaaay better than the ride. That’s because on the ride, I crashed, was knocked unconscious, and left the scene in...
The Great Bike Crash It had to happen eventually. Now if I could just remember it. The saying goes it’s not a question of whether you’ll crash your bike,...
After the World Hunger Ride The Hunger Ride more than generated an excuse for a cold beer. The World Hunger Ride from Antioch Church of the Brethren predates the craft...
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...
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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