Riding Is Good for Your (Broken) Heart
By: Jay Bartlett Published on: 01/01/2025With each explosive uphill, dopamine washed through my system. With each downhill, twisting through the trees, endorphins mixed into the feel-good cocktail. I was soon happy to...be. Mind you, riding your bike isn’t going to make everything bad...
Fall Ride
By: Jay Bartlett Published on: 02/11/2024My wheels whir across the fallen leaves that are still full of color from their autumnal parade: yellows, reds, oranges, and greens both below and above me. The leaves still attached to their limbs in the trees flutter and shimmer in the cool breeze.
The Good Old Days?
By: Jay Bartlett Published on: 02/09/2024I’m rocketing down twisting singletrack through pine trees, some wider than I am tall, needles brushing the ends of my handlebars. I’m hoping to keep from going too deep into those needles through the turns, knowing full well that...
Riding on the Wind
By: Jay Bartlett Published on: 01/07/2024A gusting, forty-mile an hour wind swept up through Kershaw-Ryan State Park. Its only escape from the box canyon was up and over the 700-foot cliffs that the Redemption Trail runs atop—close to the edge. And there I was, riding...
