by John Paff | Sep 22, 2023 | Devotions, Updates
Bike gadgets are great, aren’t they? When I was a kid, my bike gadgets consisted of only two things: 1) a light (either battery powered or the kind with a small generator that rubbed against your tire), and 2) a playing card clothes-pinned to the fork that made a cool... 
by Dave Marty | Aug 7, 2023 | Devotions, Updates
It was 2012 when I did my first RAIN—the annual one-day, 160-mile Ride Across INdiana. I had trained diligently for it, riding over 1,000 miles in the first half of the year to make sure my body was in good enough shape, but what I wasn’t quite prepared for was the... 
by John Paff | Jul 17, 2023 | Devotions, Updates
One morning, few weeks ago, I hopped on my bike for a 15-20 mile ride in the countryside near my home. It was a beautiful day, but before I’d gone even five miles I found myself feeling a bit sluggish, like I just didn’t have the energy with which I’d started out. I... 
by Dave Marty | Jun 19, 2023 | Devotions, Updates
I’ve never been bikepacking before, so when a friend of mine recently invited me to bike 400 miles along the Empire Trail in New York, my first thought was, How do I pack all the stuff I need for a week of biking and camping? Well, my friend gave me a couple of... 
by Dave Marty | May 27, 2023 | Devotions, Updates
Just over three years ago, in the early stages of the Covid-19 shutdown, I decided one chilly March day to relieve my cabin fever going for a bike ride on the B&O Trail near my home in Brownsburg, Indiana. My goal was just to hammer out a few miles and burn off...