This year for the first time in quite awhile I am not joining the Rapha "Festive 500" challenge. Of course, as always the timing...

Jerome and I planned a ride for Saturday. It seemed our last chance to get in a ride together thisyear. We planned a 730AM start so we could...

I had an afternoon commitment, and Jerome was in the early stages of recovery from some kind of stomach bug (e-coli?), so we took a short ri...

It is finally nice, cool fall weather in Tokyo ... though still quite warm midday.  I am in the middle of a house sale -- I had a work-relat...

The sawteeth mountains of Gunma Yesterday I was in Karuizawa having helped move some furniture for a friend Friday night.  The fall colo...

Jerome and I rode out to Keio SFC on Saturday morning where I had work.  He continued on over Yabitsu Pass.  An 80 km round trip for me, and...

Today was the nicest weather since my return from the USA over 3 weeks ago.  Still a bit warm and sticky (for October especially), but nice....

Randonneuring, Audax, Brevets. These words bring to mind activity that historically has been near the low end of the cycling style spectru...

In Tokyo, the cycle shops open, and they close. I mostly ignore it, since I do not have enough business to patronize even the ones I feel c...

On Saturday I took a short (~95km) trip with Jerome and Didier in not-too-hot but stiflingly humid weather.   We started late, amid heavy tr...