By Molly Hurford There’s something about riding 130 miles in a day, 4 days in a row, that makes a group of 20 people with absolutely nothing in common, aside from a deep-seeded love of bikes, suddenly become the best of friends. Additionally, there’s something about it that makes that new group of best buddies [...]
Read more →by Molly Hurford Yesterday afternoon, 20 tired riders completed their 538 mile ride to Washington, DC, from Boston, Massachusetts, surrounded by over 100 other cyclists who joined in for the last 12 mile leg of the trip. Last Friday, riders left from Boston en route to Washington. The ride was the brainchild of six-time National Champion in [...]
Read more →by Molly Hurford It seems like only yesterday that riders left from Boston en route to Washington, DC. In reality, the riders have been going for three days and covered over 350 miles. Thanks to the group’s leader, ride organizer, poster-boy for the Ride on Washington, and six-time National Champion in cyclocross, Tim Johnson, morale has stayed [...]
Read more →By Molly Hurford Ever wonder how to fuel during a long ride without getting bored, or worse, getting the dreaded “gut-rot” (cyclocrossers might know it as “cross-rot,” but the principal is the same). Lately, there’s been some serious buzz in the cyclocross community about a new cookbook by chefs (and scientists!) Allen Lim and Biju [...]
Read more →PHILADELPHIA (March 19, 2012) – Ciclismo Classico has donated a Tuscan cycling vacation to Tim Johnson’s Ride on Washington, currently en route to the National Bike Summit. This prize, along with several other grand prizes, will be raffled off at the end of the month. “We’ve ridden through some tough weather and on some tough [...]
Read more →By Molly Hurford When Tim Johnson, Jeremy Powers, Jeremy Durrin, Richard Fries, Jed Kornbluh, David Wilcox, Pete Webber, Alec Donahue and myself are all together for the day, one could almost expect the roads to turn into dirt almost magically. After all, sixtime National Champion Tim Johnson and current National Champion Jeremy Powers are two [...]
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