Road bikers have to be on alert at all times for idiot drivers, but it’s true that some road bikers, due to vast bad experiences, are on hyper-alert.
Hyper-alert=hyper-defensive=chip on shoulder.
I was driving down a narrow road through my neighborhood today when I met a hyper-defensive road biker who practically flung himself into a [...]

I have been curled around the woodstove for the last few days as my family and I recover from a bout of gastric volcanus. It was the baby and I who suffered the longest, our intestines gurgling and sighing enough to continue avoiding food.
The thought of a scrumptious dinner out on the town, without the [...]

Not only does Asheville on Bikes do a lot for the bike community, they also know how to throw a good party.
The annual Bike Love party rocked it out for a great crowd with several bands, locally brewed beer, raffles for cool free stuff, and dancing. We were graced with a warm weekend, which made [...]

Taking yoga has brought me through every single injury I’ve experienced in my risk-seeking lifestyle, right down to a sprained toe from tripping over a stupid purse in the middle of the night. Talk about extreme. I don’t even carry a purse.
All of this yoga has also helped me lecture plenty of cyclists coming to [...]

Forget about a training schedule in this recent Asheville reality game of…Will the kids be at school today? It’s raining right now. It might be icing in 15 minutes. Have they plowed the streets? Is spin class full again? Instead, just stretch and get a massage.
I don’t mean a luxurious and relaxing massage after touching [...]

As yet another snow storm powdered and slickened the streets of Asheville, my hopes for attending the Icycle melted, until the next morning when my friends wouldn’t let me out of it.
The snow in Fontana Village was not half the amount that fell in Asheville, but once into the Village Resort the tiny roads were [...]

I begged Santa Claus for a trail-a-bike, imagining my son and I doing road races together, and me riding him to school in the mornings.
I noticed that they refer to the contraption as a “TRAIL-a-bike” instead of “tandem,” because they have tested the thing out on their own unwilling children. If they were honest they [...]

A boutique catering to pro cycling has recently opened in Asheville, pampering hardcore road riders in ways that might make them go pro.
The Chainheart Cycling Studio is a tight little operation offering cyclists the details for riding.
First, it’s where you will buy your local-brewed coffee. The Chainheart blend is bold and delightful. Even those of [...]

My gut is growing, and I am feeding it Fritos and beer. I can’t bear to go to spin class, because…well…it isn’t outside.
Ok, I’m lying. Spin class hurts. Those people are crazy. Whenever the lunatic woman up there tells us to stand up and crank up the tension, I fake it, reaching to the knob [...]