April 4, 2014 by Bruce Wynkoop I was going to blog about my first organized bike ride, The Ride Across Minnesota, next but then saw an article in a local newspaper in which the writer encouraged people to bicycle for various reasons. I agreed with the author until, toward the end of the article, he stated people […]
April 7, 2014 by Bruce Wynkoop A few years after taking up bicycling I started thinking about doing a statewide bike ride. RAGBRAI sounded interesting but also sounded a bit frenetic and crowded (upwards of 15,000 cyclists). When the MS Society of MN announced their first bike ride across Minnesota, TRAM 250, in 1990, it sounded like […]
April 18, 2014 by Bruce Wynkoop As nice as The Ride Across Minnesota is, after five years of riding someone else’s routes on someone else’s schedule, Eric and I decided we’d like to ride through a different state. So, in 1995, we planned a bike trip of our own, around Lake Champlain in Upstate New York […]