Steve's Cycling Blog
Leading up to my week-long vacation in Cape Cod, I debated over which bike to bring with me. For a while, I'd settled on my fat bike, so I could ride on the sand at low tide and still ride the singletrack and rail trail. Then I thought my cyclocross bike would be best for … Continue reading Rides 25, 26, 27 – Cycling Cape Cod
I've been trying to get to the Wildwood Conservation Area to ride my mountain bike for a few years, but it just never happened. This year, I decided to sign up the week before the race, figuring I'd get a chance to finally ride these trails that I keep hearing so much about. There's … Continue reading Ride 24/50 – The Wild Ride at Wildwood Conservation Area
This past weekend I was fortunate enough to have two memorable rides for my 50-memorable-rides-in-my-50th-year goal. For Ride #21, on Saturday morning, I met up with friends Ana-Maria, Bob A., Ken R., Kevin S., Stephen B. and others at the Hydrocut mountain bike trails. These wonderful trails of about 25 km of flowing singletrack are … Continue reading Rides 21 and 22: The Hydrocut and Ride for Heart plus contest winners!
Ride #5 in my 50-in-50 rides was down in Port Colborne, Ontario on Sunday February 21, 2016 for the 7th Annual Frostbike mountain bike race. The organizers, Shorthills Cycling Club, have run this event since 2010, but this was my first time entering. They cap the number of riders at 100, and registration sold … Continue reading Ride 5/50 – Frostbike 2016
For my "50 rides in my 50th year" theme, I purposely have not set any guidelines for distance, time, speed or any other metric. Instead, I wanted to have 50 memorable rides that had some kind of significance. Today, for ride #4 of 50, I rode only 6 kilometres, but it was significant for a … Continue reading Ride 4/50 – Winter Fatbiking at -23C
Ride #2 in my "50 memorable rides in my 50th year" was last Sunday January 23, 2016 at the Guelph Lake Conservation Area on the GORBA trails (Guelph Off-Road Bicycling Assocation. http://gorba.ca/). GORBA has done a fantastic job grooming, maintaining and marking a winter trail loop through the snow, and although I've had a fat … Continue reading Ride 2/50 – Fat Biking in the snow at GORBA Trails
There are websites that will take all of your Strava data and plot it on one map (veloviewer.com, jonathanokeeffe.com). I created a map of all my 2015 rides to see what it looks like. Warmer colours (oranges, yellows) are routes that I travelled more frequently; cooler colours are darker blue/purple. I added some new destinations/routes … Continue reading Cycling Heatmaps
As we head into 2016, I thought I'd summarize my year in 2015. I'm not racing nearly as much as I used to. I'm riding more than in the past, but racing less. I enjoy group (and solo) rides on my road bike, the gravel grinders (all year!), mountain biking (particularly at the local trails: … Continue reading 2015 Ride Summary
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