The Long Haul

Since discovering the bike route toaster , I've gone kind of nuts designing new randonneuring routes in the Portland/Willamette Valley a...

A few days ago, I got an email from the Seattle International Randonneurs' mailing list about their upcoming 400. I didn't really c...

Most of the permanent routes in the Portland area start a good long ways out of Portland. As someone with recent ambitions to complete an ...

This is late, I know. I originally wrote it for publication in a magazine that shall remain nameless. I talked with them about writing a p...

For the Oregon Randonneurs' late summer 400k, the Nehalem 400, we return to Forest Grove as a start location. Note that we're start...

At the end of the first day of the Cascade 1200, I didn’t know what to do. I was rolling down a river grade towards Naches, the first overn...

Michael tagged me. If you could have any one – and only one – bike in the world, what would it be? Do you already have that coveted dream b...

I'm awake at 3:30 in the morning, an hour and a half before my alarm was set to go off. I'm not getting back to sleep, so if I'...

Lynne and Cecil picked me up early Sunday morning, with perfect timing. I had just finished my cereal, yoghurt, and nectarine breakfast; I ...

Alan Bernard over at the Recumbent Blog has taken a stab at the age-old question of bicycles as toys vs. tools. Now, I ride a bike every d...

I still have 3 major bike adventures from the end of the summer and 3 minor bike adventures from the beginning of the summer to chronicle. ...

There will never be a book written on my ultra-racing exploits. But if there was, George Thomas and Terri Gooch's Race Across Oregon wo...