Like a hazy dream. Dereliction emerges from the trees, we marvel at the juxtaposition of machine and woodland.
Cycling adventurist, bikepacker, travel writer, photographer, speaker, professor of philosophy. Route designer of the VTXL, the Green Mountain Gravel Growler beer tour, the Silk Road Mountain Race course 1st edition, and many more.
Category: Dayride
BORMIO, ITALY
Burgundy, France
In the mornings we would ride from village to village through vineyards over quiet farm tracks and over gentle hills.
FAT BIKES ON POPHAM BEACH, MAINE
Patagonia, az postcard
I frequently visited Patagonia when I lived in Tucson in the 1990s.
Mt Wrightson circuit
The terrain south of Tucson—rugged dirt roads, old mines, Elephant Head butte, thorny cactus single track, canyons and sky and dry—has filled me for 30 years. The bikes have changed but they’re a distant second to the landscape and emotions and riding with friends.
2nd Annual NYC Dirt Audax Invitational
There is the steep rocky Ruckman climb, body english for traction, point the bike between the ruts and round the slick fallen leaves. Everyone is leaping now, rhythm. Familiar wide dirt tracks, we stop for cakes and coffee and then off again northward to a long lovely stretch by the water through stands of blazing yellow.
NYC Velo Fall Adventure Series
Andrew doesn’t show disappointment, he just shrugs and says something about well no one said this was going to be an easy ride. My feet are still wet, toes freezing cold from the knee high stream wade. We’re all starting to think about the cold and soon we’ll mutter about it, but it’s mostly fine.