A-D Bikes Blog
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A-D Racing Race Report: Auburn Cycling Classic 2025
Racing in the southeast is great. The fields are big, the bikes are cool, the competition is strong and it is unheard of for me to get in this much racing so early in the season. It is also great to see parts of the region I would never see otherwise.
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A-D Racing Race Report: Florida State Time Trial Championships
The Florida State Time Trial Championship is a 40km out and back course held this year outside of St.Cloud, Florida. The course is utterly flat and mostly straight, windswept and fast. It is one of the few, regularly scheduled full length time trials that also offers Eddy Merckx and junior categories and a team trial. -
Climate Change cooks the Tour de France and floods the Giro D'Italia
My view is that making a small change to how I conduct business and run my life is better than doing nothing, and that if everyone tries to introduce small changes, these changes will take hold and make a difference, hopefully in time to prevent a dystopian future or one that is just not very comfortable. This is how I have arrived at doing what I can to make A-D Bikes a circular and sustainable bike company. -
My Cycling Climate Moment: the water bottles don't freeze anymore on the Double Loop
The last time I was around for the double loop in 2022, it was a balmy 40 degrees by the time the ride was underway. The Gatorade flowed freely. My feet and hands were warm. I wore a wind vest and arm warmers. It felt like early spring in Maine. If I had been asked to identify a single, simple, cycling-related and personal measure of how the climate has changed over the past twenty years, this would have been it. -
A-D Racing: NorthBeast Cycling Classic Race Report
Topview Sports does an excellent job of organizing and executing this event and Cornelia, Georgia, which is in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, is a very nice place to visit and race (it is also the name of our daughter which is really the reason I chose this event....I don't know anyone named Jackson). -
The A-D Bikes Sustainability Program
What started out trying to be a reseller has evolved into something closer to LKQ Corporation. The only difference is that the deproduction operations of Frame and Wheel are integrated with a bicycle brand, A-D Bikes. -
A-D Racing Race Report: Swamp Classic 2024
The Swamp Classic is a two day omnium held in Micanopy, Florida (just outside of Gainesville) and among the first USA Cycling road events of the s...
