Archive: April, 2011
One Hundred the Hard Way
Well its kinda like spring. Kinda. Club rides have started, bike path is getting busier, but it’s still early days getting out on the roads to work the winter cobwebs out of the legs. The Peterborough cycling scene is filled with super fast, super dedicated riders who by April have churned out a few hundred, [...]
Read moreNostalgia Rides a Bicycle.
I like to tell myself I am not nostalgic. Though, to place a bmx magazine from the 1980’s on my desk will prove that I can get nostalgic with the best of them, and that is but one example. Telling myself I am not nostalgic is a lie . . . but I keep up [...]
Read moreGetting Started: Racing.
The following post is the first in a series, chronicling how someone (Yours Truly) goes from being a good time, recreational road cyclist to a road racer — and I do use the term “road racer” rather loosely. Maybe you are in a similar place, you like to ride bikes, but want to ride fast [...]
Read moreColorado
I have been home training now for the last week and a half now, but I thought I should write about my last week away. Before returning to Canada I, once again, rode the Greyhound to Vail, Colorado for one last week away. To get to the ski village of Vail we passed through Flagstaff, [...]
Read moreTour of Bronte 2011
The windows are fogged up. We sit in quiet contemplation looking at grey. Thunder crashes; overpowers the muffled call of the poor announcer on the mic. The pitch, intonation and excitement build as the current race winds up. Soon we too will be out in the rain. Warm-up. Sure, whatever. On the start line are [...]
Read moreSaturday Ride.
Holy Crow! Saturday was a nice day. Saturday’s Ride. Find more Cycling Routes / Bike Rides in Peterborough, Canada I ate breakfast at the usual place with the usual dudes, returned a Digital Video Disc to Have You Seen, then spent 10 minutes at the Wild Rock gear swap. Since I wasn’t really looking for [...]
Read moreSunday Ride.
With these early days of spring, you really couldn’t have asked for better riding weather over the past weekend. Here is how I spent part of my Sunday: Sunday’s Ride. Find more Cycling Routes / Bike Rides in Peterborough, Canada This is a fairly routine route for me. For one, it provides a number of [...]
Read morePtborides.com Custom Jersey Give-Away
*This post is stickied, scroll down for newer posts. Howdy Everybody. I am back from Spain with a few good stories to tell over the coming weeks. It is very hard to express the awesomeness of riding in, if not the heart, the liver (or maybe the kidney) of Europe’s cycling community. History, culture and [...]
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