Posts tagged with: beautiful bike ride
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...
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...
The Chocolate Tour bike ride is a must for your bucket list....
I went along on a ride dubbed the Friendliest Bike Ride in America. ...
The Colonial Parkway is a great little ride that has plenty of history, scenery and culture....
Once again spring has come and with it the Blue Ridge Bicycle Club’s Spring Summits Challenge. The Club designates ten climbs in the Roanoke area and gives riders the entire...
It’s not easy to get to Paint Bank, Virginia. In fact, you pretty much have to be headed there if you want to be there, but it’s worth a purposeful...
The annual Burke’s Garden Century and Metric Century are a tradition in Virginia’s New River Valley. I rode in the event for the first time this year, and though I...
An Adventure in Glacier National Park 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 must...
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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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