the what what:
frederick city alley cat, w/ checkpoints, contests, challenges, scavenger hunting, and rad urban cyclist prizes.
Where: meet at the big bell tower in baker park downtown frederick.  you know it.  MAP HERE
all the normal crap too: skid competion, track stand comp, rapping comp.
do we all know what an alley cat is?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleycat_races
the saturday after [...]

Pavé Pavé Pavé! is a blog written by Whit Yost, a Philly resident with a love of all things cobbled, sweaty, and Euro.  His new site is a handy guide to the Spring Classics, with links to good coverage, informed commentary, and actual first hand knowledge of some of the courses.  I’ve been meaning to [...]

The readers and contributors of Ride Lugged will have cause to stroke their respective genitalia upon viewing (and subsequently following) the following intertube place: Going Slowly

Runkeeper, I don’t know why these guys didn’t think a little more broadly when they named their app, maybe they’re planning on coming out with a whole line of keeper apps, bikeridekeeper, kayaktourkeeper, hangglidingkeeper, basejumpkeeper. Personally I think they should just change the name to something more generic like fitnessmapper, workoutlogger, because I assume that [...]

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so we had a super good turn out for the scramble.  dave got points for driving the furthest to get here.  phil got points for riding a bike that would give a cory townie a run for its money (crappynesswise).  way to many people showed up on fixed gears and kicked ass on them.  joe, [...]

More info

So this summer I’ve set myself a cycling goal. I’m going to start from my house and climb up Hamburg Rd. in one go…no stops. Today I started my first ever attempt to climb it. I made it about 2.2 miles up the hill. I think it’s a good starting point. I basically made it [...]

so route slip became the beached whale that is left to die on the sands of new jersey and is looted by tourists and inuit wannabes.  they sort of stopped providing support, and rolled over and lost all my routes, which was a lot of routes.  thats what you get for free i guess.
anyway, they [...]

Google Maps

It’s kind of frustrating how hard it is to find decent maps of Patapsco so I figure this is at least a start.
I found this site with a bunch of GPS files that mapped some of the trails at the Patapsco Avalon Area and I converted them to google maps files and then imported [...]