Amsterdam

If you read the previous post, then you have been waiting with increasing excitement to learn of our adventures in Amsterdam. Wait no further, kind reader! I’ve read a great deal about the cycling culture in Amsterdam. There is no doubt that the city has made a major effort to accommodate cyclists and this has […]

Cap2Cap Century

The alarm went off at 5:00 am. Through bleary eyes, I checked my phone’s weather app. It was 60 degrees and threatening to rain. The forecast told me this would be the warmest part of the day. Maureen and I got up and began the process of getting our act together for the 2022 Cap2Cap […]

The Grand Canyon

Sometimes, a cycling story concerns great physical accomplishments.  Mountains are climbed, great distances are traveled, and exceptional speeds are achieved.  This is not one of those stories. Other times, a cycling story is simply about a fun pedal in a neat place.  This is precisely one of those stories. I recently found myself in the […]

25 versus 23

I have decided to take a leap into the Great Unknown.  Well, unknown for me at least.  I recently ordered new tires and eschewed the 700×23 tires I have used for well over a decade for the wider 700×25. Exciting, isn’t it?  Let me tell you all about it. For decades, conventional wisdom held that […]

Wandering Around Brentsville

We’ve had a colder and snowier winter than most, but for the past several weeks there has been a small bit of solace: the nicest weather of the week has occurred on the weekend.  Such was the case on Saturday when the temperature reached 70 degrees in the late afternoon.  The skies were cloudy and the wind […]

The Curious Case Of The Malfunctioning Garmin

I know what you’re thinking.  You’re thinking, “Yo, Steve, I’ve been carefully studying the above ride map and what’s up with you starting your ride at a different spot than where you ended it?  That has to be about a mile away.  You never do stuff like that, bro.” Of course, you are right, although […]

The Best Day Of The Year…

  Is the first workday after Daylight Savings Time kicks in. In 1883, Canadian and American railroads imposed their will on a continent by implementing standard time (you can never be too careful when “Big Railroad” is concerned).  Before then, time was a very local matter and the “official time” was usually kept by a […]

Weekend Mosy

I’ve been getting lucky with the weather these days with the weekend weather being the best of the week.  Last weekend was good enough to get in a ride before another snowstorm which shut the city down on Monday.  Things slowly melted during the week until the best weather arrived on Saturday.  So I set […]

Lucasville Road

The Winter That Would Not End was preparing to strike another blow Sunday night, but I was able to get in a quick 27-miler under darkening skies.  The temperature on my Garmin said it was 62 degrees.  The low on Monday is supposed to be near zero.  I guess March has decided to come “in like […]

UCI World Championships

Only 573 days until the UCI World Cycling Championships come to Richmond, Virginia!  It’s not too early to start getting excited so it was with great fanfare that the courses were announced earlier this week. UCI stands for Union Cycliste Internationale, which is French for “Bureaucracy Which Runs Cycling” (or something like that).  Every year, they […]