Private Roads, Public Access
Bicycles and even motor vehicles are allowed on private roads....
Ride To Back Bay, Newport, CA
This is part 2 of 3 Scenic Rides in Southern California this is the Ride To Back Bay Part 1 – Ride To Dana Point & San Clemente is here. The ride starts from Los Olivos Community Park in Irvine. More photos of this ride are here. This version...
Riding With My Wife
From The Beginning Of Time Up To And Including Today My wife and I often ride alone together — just the two of us. (We also drink often alone, together, but only wine and beer, for the George Thorogood fans among you). Riding with my wife has changed radically...
Hardcore or Chill Cyclist.16
How Do You Ride Your Bicycle? Our ASCENT from hardcore to chill cycling. Yes, we have definitely become chill. Hardcore Then: The longer/hillier way back is better. Chill Now: You have food in my belly, flatter is better. Hardcore Then: 60% chance of rain means 40% chance you can...
My Social Distance Bicycle Ride
MY SOCIAL DISTANCE BICYCLE RIDE or Indecision is the key to flexibility. Also see this post. I hadn’t been riding for a week or so, of more or less constant rain, in sunny Southern California. Susan and I are staying in place here as opposed to the Kansas City...
3 Scenic Rides In S. California
Riding The Newport Beach, Dana Point. San Clemente & Laguna Woods Area Our local bicycle club does scenic rides on a weekly basis. Every winter, we leave the Kansas City area for the warmth of S. California. We also get the beach. As former New Yorkers who grew up...
2 Fast Miles To The End
Saving your strength when bicycling with a group....
14 Bicycle Lies
Bicycle Lies & What Is Really Meant, Truthful Or Not I am not going too slow. You are doing a relaxed/recovery pace on purpose. You chose to go on a ride that you knew would be a push and cannot keep up. The huge breakfast was a bad idea....
3 Beautiful Vermont Bicycle Rides
Beautiful And Scenic, With Plenty Of Hills And Thrills, 3 Beautiful Vermont Bicycle Rides Two of the bicycle clubs I was in when I lived on (yes, on not in) Long Island (pronounced Longailand) NY, took multi day trips to central Vermont every summer. One club rented a house...
Bicycling Strong 302 – Speed vs. Roses
Ride Strong – Either Way Works Some of our strong rides in Oregon Columbia River Gorge, Rhode Island, California, Florida and Kansas City (yes, even KC). If the ride is about Speed vs. Roses, my wife, will, invariably, chose roses. On occasion, however, she will consider bursts of speed...