By Thomas Henson Jr. I hate traffic. Whether I’m on a bike or in my car, there’s a part of me that wishes I had a private roadway all to myself so I didn’t have to be so hyper-aware, so defensive, and so, well…irritated. When you’re walled-in by motorists,
UCI Road World Championships Hoping for a Worlds start, Matthew Busche recently previewed the UCI Road World Championships race course. Busche, who rides for Trek Factory Racing, is the current US National Road Race Champion. The Official US Cycling Selection Committee meets on Sept 4th to set the final
By Thomas Henson Jr. Whether you’re out on a family outing or a long-distance training ride, the last thing you expect is a close encounter with a motor vehicle. But it happens. My law firm handles dozens of North Carolina bike accident cases each year—this is a problem we
By Brian Beatty There are rare pieces of advice that are so rich they inform one for decades and become “best of” material. For my many years of mountain biking, the advice given to me almost 20 years ago by Matthew Lee remains my ‘best of’. After watching Matthew
By Thomas Henson Jr. For better or worse, kids are sponges. They soak in the lessons of the world, and then replay them in their own little lives. That’s why it’s important to impart lessons about safety as early as possible, to instill a lifetime of good habits. I know
By Thomas Henson Jr. Do you bike to work? Most cyclists I know would like to commute by bicycle. You know the reasons: good for your health, more time on the bike, better for the environment. But if you probe this topic, you’re likely to hear the word except
By Michael Hernandez Since 2012, I’ve been on a grassroots mission to bring together people of all walks of life within our community to kick cancer to the curb. The Good Ride cycling event was created to bring together those who share a love of cycling to generate positive change
By Brian Beatty Many of us can relate to the experience of grinding away on the bike… whoomph, whoomph, whoomph… only to passed by someone turning over the steady drone tone of wrrrrrrrrrrrr. The steady tone of the rubber on the road comes from the smooth and even application
As the top cyclists in the world compete at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships, visitors from all over the globe will get their chance to tackle the same climbs and cobblestones that make up the championship course during two unique, public participation events. Richmond 2015, the organizing committee
The 2015 UCI Road World Championships, cycling’s pinnacle event, will be held September 19-27, 2015 in Richmond, Va., and is expected to attract 450,000 onsite spectators over the course of the nine-day event as well as a worldwide TV audience in the hundreds of millions. More than 1,000 cyclists
