The Blayleys

Last year, I tried to convince my Flèche teammates to do the Provincetown to Portland Flèche on fixed. It was a perfect fixed route, I said,...

In a purely shameless attempt to increase the readership on this blog (from my two loyal readers to maybe 4 or 6), I am going to give away m...

"Do you want the good news or bad news?" This is what Fear Rothar said as he came upstairs just before we were to load the tand...

The greatest blog post ever written was almost ready to be published when I added one more link and lost the whole t...

The smoker's cough seemed to be getting worse. Almost to the point that John considered passing on the planned long ride for Friday. I...

We had a couple of goals for our week in the Catskills. One was to do lots of climbing, and trust me, we did not suffer from any lack of hil...

Longtime readers may have spotted a theme to our vacations at this stage. It seems that we find some place with lots of concentrated climbin...

Never again, when someone asks where I am from, will I have to respond "just outside of Boston". Now I can just say "a few bl...

As a fixie rider, my feet are always moving. Could it be some form of hyperactivity that draws me to riding a fixed gear bike - since I just...

I know. It's been a while. But radio silence on this blog is coming to a screeching halt! I have a serious backlog of things to write ab...

Last week I was having a chat with a friend about different styles of bike trips. John and I have done all types of bike tours, including st...

History repeats itself... A few years ago I bought an inexpensive fixie to use on the local Saturday morning fitness ride. Part of the...

According to Wikipedia, Nemo is a Latin word meaning "no man" or "no one".  So it seems that "no one" banned ...

Today as I write this, I am back home in Massachusetts, looking out at snow falling on our eerily quiet street, as our governor has taken t...

I headed out on unfamiliar roads. A change is as good as a rest, some say. So this should make for a nice adventure. But let me back up a ...