Juliette and I raced the 2nd race in the O’Cup series yesterday at Albion Hills. I didn’t enjoy the first O’Cup race, but I decided to give it a second chance. This race had even more of what I don’t like and my heart wasn’t in it. There is way too much double track and [...]

I am experimenting with a new feature for the site that allows me to upload the GPS files from our rides and display a map on the site. This is the ride we did last Thursday that I took the video on.
For those people with GPS’s, you can download the GPX file linked below the [...]

I added two new photo albums to the gallery tonight. One is of various pictures that we have been taking this spring. So far, it includes some pictures from the Paris to Ancaster race and from the first Ontario Cup race in Mansfield at the end of April.
If you haven’t seen it yet, Juliette wrote [...]

Steve, Terry and the Collingwood crew gave me a GoPro video camera for my birthday, so I have been experimenting with different ways of using it. Last Thursday, I mounted it to the seatpost of my mountain bike while Tim, Juliette, Amanda, Trevor and I rode at Hilton Falls.
It was dark and rainy on [...]

Juliette and I are home safe and sound. We are having a bit of trouble adjusting to the idea of working and snow, but all is well. We both wrote daily about our trip when we were down there, so we will be posting that to the site as we get it typed in.
Update: [...]

I don’t do tourist very well. I think it is because I am so easily bored. I see other sitting in the cafés all day drinking coffee in the morning, then beer for the rest of the day. They just watch the people come and go. I try it, but I get restless and leave [...]

We had been planning on staying at the resort until lunch, but we woke up restless and missing our bikes, so we packed our panniers and were on the road for Holguin by 9:30.
The ride passed quickly with a tailwind and beautiful scenery. Steep cliff topped mountains dotted the landscape and the terrain rolled enough [...]

We were up and by the pool drinking coffee by seven this morning. During these weeks of riding, I have settled into the rhythm of the sun, rising and setting each day like one of its disciples.
A buffet breakfast, a swim in the sea, worshipping the sun; leisurely days in a place like this pass [...]

Last night in the square in Banes, we met an American with a touring bike. He was big, loud and Texan. He didn’t want to hear anything about the road ahead or our story, he only wanted to forcefully regale us with his epic stories of his tour so far, his bike and his mishaps.
He [...]

We set off early again this morning for Banes. The first 16 kms on the main road to Holguin were busy, but the road was in good condition and it passed quickly. We then turned north toward Banes and the road immediately turned bad. As we wove through the potholes and our teeth chattered along [...]