My Life On A Bike

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 [...]

For years, Raja has dreamed of climbing the Stelvio. It’s THE climb of the Giro d’Italia, the Alpe d’Huez of Italy. Tucked precariously in the northwestern tip of Italy snug up to Switzerland, the Stelvio is definitely off the beaten path. It takes some effort to get here, and this was the year we would [...]

All singletrack leads to strudel…well, let me be more specific. On September 7, 2007 in the tiny town of Seis, Italy, all singletrack leads to strudel.
The first 2 weeks of September, in the Castelrotto region of Northern Italy, the celebration of apple/grape harvest is celebrated in fine fashion. This is not redneck ville cotton pickin’ [...]

Halfway through our Italy trip, we have arrived on the northern end of Lago di Garda in the small town of Torbole. This is our 5th visit to Torbole, and 4th attempt to climb Tremalzo. Last year we were successful in finding a route that took us up from the town of Vesio. It was [...]

My first ride in Italy accrued a total of 2,000′ climbing, and the second totaled all of 3,000′. Therefore, on the 3rd ride, I decided we must do at least 4,000′. That’s logical (remember, I’m simple minded). The morning skies were beginning to cloud up in Castelrotto, so we packed our bags, said goodbye, and [...]