Backward Mutters

Category: cycling

  • THE Piedmont Triad Omnium: A Old Guy’s Perspective

    This weekend the first Piedmont Triad Omnium was held in Lexington and Thomasville. The event was organized by a local cyclist – Jim Martin, and sponsored by many of the local bicycle clubs/shops. The following is a brief description from my vantage point as a volunteer and Cat 5 cyclist…

  • PG-13 Live Tour Coverage

    Vaughters drops the F-bomb on live TV.

  • Blood, Sweat, and uh, Fears?

    Blood, Sweat, and Gears is today. Red and Chum will be contesting the the last of the spring challenges or actually the first of the summer ones. But hey, it’s Boone. It only started spring in the beginning of May. Incidentally, the only “contesting” will be whether or not Chum…

  • Stormin

    Tuesday night, and that means Farmer’s Market. A nasty storm blew through Gboro and though the sky looked troubled, it only sprinkled as we left. Here’s a pic of some of the tree damage that blew through a couple of weeks earlier. I so can’t hang with the group. I’ve…

  • 2008 3 Mountain Madness Report

    Two of the Ramblers made it to Pilot Mt to ride the 2008 edition of 3 Mountain Madness (aka 3 Mountain Metric). Red and Chum lined up, and Red would like everyone to know that he was in front of Chum for a good 30, er, meters or so. The…