Cycling through Belgium and The Netherlands means windmills, tulips and cycling narrow European streets. Wonderful....

Not every bike ride can be epic. This one was....

Cycling is more than scenery and fitness. There’s a genetic need to collect the rare and unusual ride. It’s the time of year when the weather drives us inside, and...

How I got to ride with Kristin Armstrong Occasionally you get the assignment of a lifetime.  This was one of those. As a reader, you may know that I am...

Sarcoidosis has kept me from accomplishing some of my cycling goals. In May 2021, I fought back with two century rides....

I never paid much attention to the practice of riding one's birthday. And then I turned 60....

The Blue Ridge Fondo 30-Mile Course As we prepared to ride the Virginia’s Blue Ridge Fondo 30-mile course, the sun was out and even at 11 a.m. the temperature was...

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...

Earning my beer: The trek up Thunder Ridge is sort of personal.  As I wrote in a previous blog, the 12-mile climb up the mountain on the Blue Ridge Parkway...

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...