A trip report from spending most of May bicycling the gravel roads in Lafayette County, Missouri.…
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I rode towards a place on the map called Odense. Odense doesn’t really exist any more. It is not a ghost town, because there’s nothing left. Except a cemetery.…
After big miles in January and February, the month of March was rather slow. Lots of trail work and spring showers and flowers!…
There’s a new bike shop opening in Iola in April, with a grand opening on April 29th. I put together plans for a little ride…
Early February, 70 degrees, sunshine, no wind … perfect riding conditions, and yet I was somehow out of rhythm. It was my first “shorts” ride…
My second ride in the 2017 Cup O’ Dirt Challenge is in the books, a 68-miler in the Neosho River bottoms. After a week of…
Small towns, remote roads, low-water crossings galore, beautiful scenery, and some challenging terrain. It’s hard to beat.…
I’d mapped out a 35-mile route, but with temperatures up to around 50°F and light winds, I went ahead and knocked off my first 100km+…
I worked hard last year to earn my very own Cup O’ Dirt Challenge mug — logging twelve gravel rides of over 100km each (totaling about 940…