Feb 28, 2019
The podcast version of the most recent Pedalshift Live, featuring the Cross-Florida bike tour wrap up... takeaways, highlights, and answers to your questions about using Google Maps for bike tour planning, what it's like touring on a Brompton and more.
Feb 21, 2019
Day 3 was the longest ride of the trilogy... over 60 miles that captured so much of Florida's landscape... from congested suburban Orlando to a lengthy shoulderless 60mph strip of asphalt through a rural stretch of grazing land to the Atlantic coast that beckoned in Cocoa Beach. I was running out of Florida, but still...
Feb 19, 2019
Day 2 of the Cross-Florida bike tour began in Lakeland, Florida with a serene morning palling around with exotic birds. With 51 miles of riding ahead of me, I got an early start knowing there was a small stretch of questionable riding towards the end in Kissimmee.
The Journal: Cross-Florida Bike Tour, Part 2
Lakeland,...
Feb 17, 2019
Central Florida has a thousand personalities. Sure, we all know the theme parks, and the big cities of Tampa and Orlando, but there are also huge swaths of barely developed pastures, orange groves, irrigation canals and lakes to catch a cyclists' eye while pedaling the miles away. A lot of people come to Florida to...
Feb 7, 2019
The Great American Rail-Trail, a bold project recently launched by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, is a proposed network of nearly 4000 miles of off-road trails linking Washington, DC to the outskirts of Seattle, WA. On this episode, we chat with Kevin Mills of RTC to get the scoop on this exciting project and what to...