Prepping for the Cape Epic

[Jeremiah Bishop checks in as he and his Topeak-Ergon team prepare to embark upon the challenge of the 2015 ABSA Cape Epic: the 8-day mountain bike stage race across South Africa. These accounts will be featured…

Back to Bike Racing!

This winter, I have been training like a blacksmith making armor for an epic battle looming on the horizon. So I was eager when it was finally time to travel to the first race in mid-February….

Adventure is Driving Me

[This is the second part of “The Biggest Bike Week of My Life” previous blog entry. I was left on my mission alone; riding in the dark in a forest area of almost two million acres.] My…

The Biggest Bike-Week of My Life

For me, last week was bike mega-week! First, my family hosted our fourth annual Alpine Loop Gran Fondo in our hometown of Harrisonburg, Virginia; then I rode the toughest ride of my life in my self-created “SDS1 Mini…

Serious Competition

One of the U.S.’s biggest mass-start mountain bike races, The Chequamegon [say “sha-wa-mu-gun”] Fat Tire Festival has taken place in the north woods of Wisconsin for 32 years. It’s been on my bucket list, so I…