Out of True

What I Like, Part 873

Solitary cycling is good but I like riding with friends, too, especially when it’s a birthday ride and somebody brings doughnuts to the meet up-spot…

Jan 29

Spinning It Out

After a Big, Squishy, Late December Ride in George Washington National Forest

Jan 16

Never Shut Up, Sharp Top

This was Gabe’s route, a hundo loop that stretched longer than wide against the Blue Ridge Front in Bedford County, a scene of undulating, sparsely…

Jan 8

November 2024

Gala-Longdale Furnace-North Mt.-Collierstown-Bluegrass Trail

Somebody painted POOL CLOSED on the old CCC overlook's stone wall up on North Mountain, as if they knew that when the pool’s closed (pool of shadow and…

Nov 30, 2024

A Partial List of Smells Encountered During Some Warm November Rides

Portapotty & puffball.

Nov 11, 2024

October 2024

Sitting Here

after meeting Russ and John this morning at mist-rise for a ride; sitting after a dip in North Creek, bike clothes off, loose clothes on, bedrock bench…

Oct 24, 2024

Bleed Out, Sparkle

Clear afternoon, early October, a Friday.

Oct 18, 2024

Over the Top Tube

When the corndog refused to whirligig with the veggiedog at the company picnic, Sally geeked, ghosted early, and pedaled her dinglespeed down to the…

Oct 10, 2024

Fantasyland

Somebody told me that Fantasyland’s gone, that strange old store on Peachtree at Garden Hills, where Harry & I as kids in the early Eighties often rode…

Oct 1, 2024

September 2024

Not to Tell the Legs to Shut Up,

that's wrong, but to accompany them as they turn pain into song.

Sep 20, 2024

In the Parking Lot after the Group Ride

by Maggie Crutchfeld

Sep 12, 2024

August 2024

Enough, Summer

Late August, more leaves on the trail, these dry, chapped-lipped days, canopy a tired green going to color here & there, a few, hardly dramatic flowers…

Aug 29, 2024