As a professional photographer and athlete, the thing I love to see above all else is effort; 100%, focused, passionate, effort. So for Janine and I to shoot the 2010 Giro d’Italia’s absurdly steep Plan …
Italian Dolomite Bike Hotels
Cyclists… Now admit it, you want to feel like a European based pro. You want to ride those perfect, twisting switchbacked climbs, descend amongst towering walls, and fly through villages on cobbled lanes. When your …
Professional Road Racing Training Tips
Training for a Granfondo? Perhaps the Maratona dles Dolomites Post courtesy of Bruce Hendler at AthletiCamps: High Quality Coaching and Performance Cycling Camps, based in Northern California. Bruce is an old cycling friend of mine …
2009 L’Eroica Photos
Simply put, I love bikes. The culture of cycling is a large reason I have chosen to live in Italy, for the roots run deep and rich. This past weekend we headed south to Tuscany …
Bench Season
As a cyclist, I have a fifth season; Bench Season. It is spread amongst the autumn and winter months and typically only falls on the warmer days, or, mood and time permitting – any day …
Granfondos
Road Bike Racing: The Granfondos For the road bike racers in the audience… let’s face it, watching Euro racing on TV gets our heart rates up, makes us drool at the roads, the fans, the …
Roadside Distractions
Roadside Trash; what it says about a culture, its people, and its habits. After 25 years of staring from my bike at roadside debris, litterings, and the impact of humanity, I feel I have greater …
City Limit Sign Sprints come to the Dolomites
Andi Mariner’s eyes lit up when I told him about the American group ride ritual of sprinting for city limit signs. The rest of our group didn’t seem overly interested until Andi’s 5th sprint win …