The Blayleys

My wakeup call at the wonderful Starlight Llama B&B came from this fellow My favorite ride in 2012 had to be The JAM Fund Grand...

According to our local meteorologists, a heatwave is defined as more than three days in a row where the temperature exceeds 90 degrees...

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. " -George Santayana Research suggests that for women who experi...

A bit over a year ago, Rob Vandermark starting talking about doing a hilly ride. And by hilly , he meant he wanted to find the biggest cli...

Apologies for the delay in announcing the winner of the Bike Friday Tikit . If you've been reading the blog in the last month, you are a...

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...