by Vince Cummings I decided to do a new double century called the White Mountain Double to get my third official double for the year in the Triple Crown series. This ride climbs to the top of White Mountain after a flat thirteen mile warm up. The climb gains ...

by Clyde Butt Prep After a 19 month absence from riding in California Triple Crown series events, I’m glad I chose to do this one. A long term period of unemployment forced me into survival mode – I simply could not justify or pay for the events. Praise God, I landed safely ...

I want to say thank you to everyone who sent words of encouragement over the past few days. They have really helped me get through this week and help me gain the perspective that a DNF after 350 miles in <22 hours is more of an accomplishment than a ...

by Marie Becker Towards the end of 2008 Pat Becker and I were sitting around trying to decide what our goals for riding would be in 2009.  Both of us were burned out from all the training for the Death Ride, so we decided not to do that this year, and ...

by Paul Metz Don and Barbara from the "Alameden Cycle Touring Club" want to do some climbing on the free day in Lake Tahoe on the Prologue.  They haven't done much climbing on their tandem, and want to see how it would go. We get up a bit early, hoping to leave ...

by Brian Chun Vince Cummings and Brian Chun biked from home and then merged at Landess and Morrill Rd. @ 6:15 am, starting from Milpitas, taking short stops in Livermore, Carnegie motocross park, and the Patterson Jack in the Box on Sperry Rd. Russ left much later with the Reverse Hamilton ...

by Brian Chun ACTC riders in the June 13th Alta Alpina Cycle Club's Riding the Wild Sierra Challenge included ~160 miler, ~16700' climber Carlos Perez Gautrin, who completed 6 passes: Kingsbury Grade East, Luther Pass East, Carson Pass North,  Blue Lakes, Monitor West & East (Topaz) and ~176 miler, ~17000' climber ...

by Brian Chun ACTC members Brian Chun and Richard Hanke biked to Genoa, Nevada in their 500+ mile Ride Across California June 4th-8th.  On Day 1, aided by delta tailwinds, they climbed 140 miles to the historic gold mining town of Jackson (elev. 1200'), site of the Kennedy Mines, once the ...

by Richard Hanke Pre Ride: One day an email arrived announcing that Brian Chun would lead a ride to Lake Tahoe.  I checked the date and I did not have a conflict so I decided to join.  Since riding across America with Trek Travel last September I wondered what it would be ...

by Deborah Hoag Climb to Kaiser is sponsor by the Fresno Cycling Club, which consist of 13,500' of climbing and 155 miles with temperatures above 100 degrees.  The ride begins and ends at Alla Sierra Middle School in Clovis, Ca.  The first 23 miles is pretty flat. What makes Kaiser hard ...