Don’t pack up your bike yet! The Alabama Backroads Century season maybe over, but there is still at least one more good century ride this year coming up in Alabama. I’m excited to be the guest speaker at a fundraiser for New Water Ministries, which is hosting a century ride (with 30, 60, and 100…
“Turtles all the way down” – Garmin Edge 520, Edge 800, Edge 1000. I only gave it one ride, but the new Garmin Edge 520 is running the latest Garmin firmware design, which includes an absolutely ridiculous elevation filter. That’s disappointing, because this small GPS unit has such great potential. I wanted it to be…
Every fall for the past 10 years, we have traveled to Clemson, South Carolina for fall break. Football game on Saturday (sometimes), long ride for me on either Sunday or Monday (or both), and drive back home on Tuesday usually after visiting local apple orchards in the mountains. My bike rides over fall break have…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brian Toone (@kartoone76) I have missed Six Gap the past few years, so I was excited when the opportunity to ride it came up at the last minute. I decided to make it an extra epic adventure this year by getting up at 1:30AM, driving 4…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brian Toone (@kartoone76) I’m really excited about a last minute opportunity that has opened up for me to race Six Gap on Sunday. I won’t be able to make it up for the criterium, but I’ll be gunning for the fastest combined time on Hog Pen…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brian Toone (@kartoone76) The thing you have to understand about these kinds of adventures is how ridiculously fun they are. Part of the reason I blog about them and take so many pictures is to try to share that intangible sense of adventure with other people…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brian Toone (@kartoone76) Frozen Niagra, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky Now that I’ve wrapped up just about everything for Race Across America this year – except for the poster-sized topocreator maps I’m sending out to supporters – I’m going to switch back to this blog for updates on…
I’m so excited to be racing the Race Across America this summer. I created a separate blog for all of my RAAM posts, and “Cycling Adventures” blog will remain idle until the race is over. Here is a link to the RAAM blog where I will be posting all things cycling since everything I’m doing…
Eddie Fryer and a host of volunteers put on an amazing event today as a fund-raiser for the Alabama NICA high school cycling league. I helped scout out the route with Mark Fisher, and it turned out to be pretty much perfect for this type of event. Below, I’ve linked to all the videos I…
We’re currently investigating a potential route for the Birmingham Baker’s Dozen. This route is looking more and more like the final route so I went ahead and created the map and stats for all the climbs. We explored this route on Sunday, and I made youtube videos of all the climbs. Lots of random conservations…