The Blayleys

In 1987, as a young naive randonneuse, I headed off to France to attempt PBP. For various reasons, I ended up starting the event on a brand ...

I've often observed that the most difficult ride and race reports to write are those about rides and races that went perfectly smoothly....

198 km into a 202 km permanent, my ride came to a sudden unexpected end. I had slowed and signaled to my two riding companions for the left ...

Fear Rothar announced back in the winter that one of his big targets for the year was to be Dirty Kanza , a 200 mile gravel road race, bas...

Crisp and sunny! That's more like it. Traditionally, Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer in the USA. But this year, it sure...

My alarm alerted me that another night had passed. The hammering on the roof had finally stopped. It wasn't bright out by any means, but...

Maybe it's old age or maybe it's too many prior rides in the rain, but the Bike Barn was still quiet at 8AM. Well, I say quiet, but ...

Apologies for another long delay without a blog post. If you are the impatient type, follow me on twitter - @fixie_pixie - where the posts a...

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...