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Ride the Rockies

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:25:54 +0100

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B2B

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:06:16 +0100

PHOTOS: Chris Millimanww.chrismilliman.com/ WORDS: Sam Richardsonww.rapha.cc/samuel-richardson VIDEO: Paper Fortressaperfortressfilms.com/work/ It is fair to say that for all the time spent riding throughout this country the Rapha Continental ha...

Vail to Vail

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:14:42 +0100

WORDS: Carey S-Hww.rapha.cc/carey-sh PHOTOS: Dan Sharpww.danielsharpphoto.com/ VIDEO: Benji Wagnerww.benjiwagner.com/ If you've ever been a somewhat serious skier in the United States, then you've probably had Vail Ski Resort on your list as a p...

Gentlemen's Race Litchfield, CT

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:59:59 +0100

WORDS: Jeremy Dunn PHOTOS: Brian Vernorrianvernor.com/home.html & Jesse Burkeww.jesseburke.com/ VIDEO: Paper Fortress Filmsaperfortressfilms.com/work/ The trick to enjoying a great Gentlemen's Race does not lie within the prize list. You wil...

Tour of the Unknown Coast

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:27:05 +0100

We do not choose which rides we label 'best ever'. They choose us. Of course, from looking back on the ones that wind up with that moniker it is possible to discern a few elements that help the ride earn this title. A perfect sunshine laden day can d...

2010 Summer Season

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:41:48 +0100

Over the last three years the riders of the Rapha Continental have explored some of the most beautiful regions and roads in North America. With the help of customers and friends, the chronicle of our ongoing journey has now grown to fifty rides and o...

Big Loop - Boise, ID

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:18:14 +0000

Our desire to move, travel and expand, and road trip is central to our identity and consciousness. Americans love frontiers. We are restless and ready at once to pack-up and move-on should life require it, for a job or a woman, or for gold or for fam...

Pintler Loop

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:15:39 +0000

Before, during, after, later, and depending on how long a day may be later again, the cyclist eats on ride days. String together a succession of ride days or even alternating ride and travel days, and food slowly becomes less and less a plethora of s...

About The Bikes

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Our approach to building bicycles for the Rapha Continental Riders is a reflection of our environment both in terms of riding and in terms of the people, builders and brands local to the Pacific Northwest; Portland in particular. Inspired by the styl...

Beartooth Pass

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:24:41 +0000

This ride could be a top five. Maybe three. Riding in the brisk Portland Sunshine on a March day waiting for the rains to come again, I contemplated how amazing it would be to ride Beartooth now, today. How if I could, if the roads were passable,...

Jeremy's Ranch

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:41:45 +0000

Luck marries place, time-of-day and weather, not planning. Climbing under the sun with no shade. Tailwinds rolling off a pass. Sleet on a summit before a huge descent. Rain two miles into a 100 mile day. It’s all luck. And as all riders know, it...

Snowy Pass

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:09:15 +0000

On our left, riding our way into the foothills outside Laramie, Wyoming, is a deep depression that seems to have been formed by centuries of wind erosion that stretches for miles and miles. On our right, ranch-lands are covered in tall, blowing grass...

Coal Miner

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:27:55 +0000

We’ve stayed in hundreds of different places over the course of this project. In the beginning, when it was local to the Northwest and Northeast we stayed at home and with friends and teammates. Twice, while in Los Angeles, we stayed at The Standar...

The Four | A Ride With Andy Hampsten

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:12:35 +0000

We have been fortunate to meet some incredible people through the Rapha Continental. Locals, shop-owners, constables, hosts, and riders of all sorts as we've made our way across the States. Boulder, CO is known as a mecca for riding, the outdoors and...

Phantom Canyon

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:30:34 +0000

"Some of those roads were fashioned without switchback technology. It’s like the engineers didn’t respect or appreciate gradient. It’s like they looked at the hill from the bottom and just started clearing, leveling and paving a path straight-u...

Sangre de Christo

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:31:44 +0000

Angel Fire, one step further in than Taos, is a small town near Wheeler Peak in the Sangre De Christo Mountains, New Mexico’s highest. As far away as it is, Angel Fire is home to a fairly well known century ride called the Enchanted Circle. We didn...

Buffalo Pass

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:25:25 +0000

Chinle, Arizona is 100 miles south-west from Four Corners Monument where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona meet. 198 miles from Moab, 311 miles from Grand Junction, 229 miles from Albuquerque and 195 miles from Flagstaff, it sits at the mouth of...

Blue Mound

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:06:24 +0000

Blue Mound State Park is on the tallest hill in southern Wisconsin. And at 1,716 feet above sea level, Blue Mound is the seventh highest peak in the state. Had Chicago won the bid for the 2016 Olympics this area would have hosted Olympic road racing....

Black Hills

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:12:27 +0000

Perry Jewett is a firefighter and has been for nearly 20 years. He is also the Race Director of an annual Labor Day mountain bike race called the Dakota 50. He lives with his wife and daughter in downtown Spearfish, South Dakota. He rides everything;...

Lincoln Continental

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:29:50 +0000

Nebraska is a mathematician’s delight; it’s one big square divisible by hundreds and thousands of smaller squares. Farms, fields, ranches, all on a grid of right angles and square plots. It’s deceptively not flat, like an ocean, where scale and...

M22

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:31:24 +0000

Fudgie. It’s a loving term bestowed upon any tourist that makes their way along the northern tier of Lake Michigan where fudge can be bought at any stop. With the help of amazing hosts and friends, we found ourselves at the best bar in the town of ...

Diabolical Double

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:07:14 +0000

In the Appalachian Mountains along the Upper Potomac, the roads boil and roll like a winter storm on the high seas. The surfaces of Garrett County in Western Maryland rise in peaks and crests. These pavement waves are several hundred feet high and co...

Centre Ramble

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:04:02 +0000

Often because of the shape and nature of the landscape, topography will dictate the pace of a ride. Rouge Roubaix, for example, demands you to race, while the aptly named 86-mile Centre Ramble, suggests an easier-paced and, well... rambling kind of a...

Lost River Barn

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:03:59 +0000

The Host Originally from Jersey, Jay Moglia moved to D.C. to attend American University. After school he worked bartending, playing music, and the odd construction job. During the summer of 1991, faced with no construction work and burned out on the...

Cold Knob

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:58:20 +0000

In West Virginia the physical and cultural landscapes are inextricably linked. Landscapes are defined by the physical and biological processes that shape them--the topography, climate, the geology, and the ecology. Cultural norms are often predicate...

Six Gap and Brasstown

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:45:05 +0000

From a psychological standpoint when an aspect of an individual’s demeanor improves solely because they are being studied, it’s called the Hawthorne Effect. We sometimes call it the Ira Ryan Effect. Ira Ryan, in this case, is a verb and it can, h...

French Broad River

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:25:18 +0000

From the gas station town of Dillingham, North Carolina, the road to Craggy Gardens is called Stoney Fork. Strewn with gravel, rocks and forest debris, Stoney Fork is seven miles of off camber turns, washboards and dirt Less than ten feet from the...

Killing Me Softly

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:47:33 +0000

Cycling is sport and transportation and transformation. And cycling is vantage. A position and condition that when combined, offer a Point of View. The position, seated on a bike, slightly bent and pointed forward, is engaged. Moving through time and...

Mississippi Delta

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:16:48 +0000

In the three years of Continental riding, this is the worst road ever. We’re lost and stopped at an intersection in the middle of nowhere. Stopped collectively, unsure of where this odyssey ends, quiet, empty and bemused looks reflect a ride lik...

Rouge Roubaix

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:36:17 +0100

We are not racing the “Rouge Roubaix”, a now somewhat famous event which takes place every year in March, we are simply riding it. Though like any other Continental or Gentlemen’s ride we are inclined to ride it hard. However, we quickly learn ...

Jasper Disaster

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:06:54 +0100

Since its popular debut in the 1972 movie Deliverance ‘Dueling Banjos’, originally called ‘Fuedin’ Banjos’, has become synonymous with hillbillies, backwoods, banjos and the musically-inclined simpleton. Deliverance was not filmed in Ar...

Gentlemen's Race Northwest

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:44:22 +0100