My Life On A Bike

For four years now, Raja and I have been riding The Snake. Snake Creek Gap, or The Snake, as we all fondly refer to this delightful trail, is aptly named. Having never been bitten by a snake, I can only imagine how it hurts. If it is anything like the pain of [...]

With each passing year, the transition from lingering summertime weather to the brutality of winter gets more difficult for me. If there could just be a half degree temperature drop ever other day, then perhaps I could slowly adjust to the cold. Nah, I doubt that would even work. The long and short of it [...]

“Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work; If one falls down, his friend can help him up….A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.” Ecclesiastes 4:9,10,12.
You can judge alot about a person from the friends he has. Judging from his huge network of devoted friends, Scott Hodge [...]

Of all the rides we’ve done in Europe, two stand out as my favorite; Mt Tremalzo in Italy and the Swiss Triple Bypass which we did this year with Becky and Jeff. I have already posted about that weekend, reporting on both the bypass and the Grosse Scheidegg ride. However, I think the epicness of [...]

With all the hoopla and posting over our Swiss Hillseeker camp, I failed to report on the most important mission of the whole trip. The Tour de Coop.
The Tour de Coop is an exclusive Tour, and we are the only participants. We are the only people strange enough to do it. There is no entry [...]