Some people have a drawer full of socks. I have a drawer full of women’s cycling gloves. (OK — I have a drawer full of socks, too.) I just happened to be pawing through that drawer this weekend. One of those weekends when the sun said warm but the 25 mph north wind said spring’s […]

Some welcome warm weather has come to The Salt Lick Known as Rochester. Ah, nothing like riding my bike and smelling Mother Earth instead of ice water. Cardinals and robins are singing and V’s of Canada geese fill the sky. No matter what’s happening in the economy, their world is still sane. And that makes […]

Richard Schwinn has had a long and varied history in the bicycle business, starting out as a mechanic in high school and working all around Schwinn Bicycle Company’s Chicago factory, including a stint building Schwinn’s elite Paramounts in the early 70’s. After a period outside the bicycle industry, Richard returned to Schwinn in the late […]

Did you think this was going to be about climate change? No, it’s about a website every cyclist should bookmark. I’m referring to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/610day/fxus06.html These guys deal in the future. In late January, in upstate New York, I’m desperate for a glance at the future. A warmer future. A future that […]

Early January, 2009. It’s snowing. It’s freezing. Not a cycling creature is stirring. Unless they work at Terry, that is. Today finds us busy welcoming just one of many vendors who will be visiting us this month, showing off their cycling apparel lines for Fall 2009. What could be more fun than sitting around with […]

The project seemed simple enough: resurrect an old Kirtland Tour Pac handlebar bag and its hardware that has been languishing in my closet and put it on a bike I’ll be using in a few weeks for some biking and birding. I’ve stuffed small binoculars into my jersey pocket before, but where do you put […]

Recently I was in Maryland for the 4th Annual Women’s Council sponsored by W.L. Gore, makers of Gore-Tex® and Gore Bike Wear™. Prior to the Council, I headed down the Eastern Shore of Maryland for a few days of riding. July on the Eastern Shore is synonymous with hot and humid. And so I found […]

It finally happened: summer has returned to upstate New York. Riding a wave of heat and humidity, it arrived in full bloom this weekend. Ah, there’s nothing like that first bike ride in the stuff. Fragrances abound, cotton fluffies stick to your face and your breath gets hot. Huh? In 1977, when I started riding […]

My cousin Elizabeth was one of the many riders at the Wild Goose Chase event at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge this past Sunday. She’s the one holding the bouquet. No, she didn’t dress like this for the ride — this photo was taken at her wedding on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in July, 2003. […]

f you read this blog regularly, you know I skip work some mornings to go for a bike ride. The boss is setting a bad precedent…. I never come back from a bike ride without feeling it was a gift. This morning was no exception. I was enjoying a nice little tailwind as I rode […]

Around this time of year, the word “mileage” always creeps into my thoughts. As in “how’s my mileage this year compared to last year?” Now, a couple of years of using Graeme’s training programs have taught me that it’s not the quantity of miles that matter; it’s the quality. Quantity, not quality. Oops. I slipped […]

Four members of our Terry racing team just arrived at my house to go on a bike ride with me and I’m feeling a little panicky. I mean, they rode the Rochester Crit last night, so I know they can make mincemeat out of me within the first half mile, leaving me groveling and gasping […]

I’m turning the blog over to Naomi Cermak, a member of Team Terry. Naomi pushes a pen about as fast as she pushes her bike. This post is about her win in the recent Bristol Mountain Road Race. Enjoy! Ever wonder what’s going through that empty space between my two ears during a bike race? […]

Edward “Ted” “Teddy” King stopped by our office for lunch today. He rides on the Priority Health racing team and lives here in the “Hell of the North” between racing gigs to be with his lady. It was neat to hear about the Tours of California and Georgia from the rider’s point of view. What […]

Spring is a strange time of year. Hope meets reality and angst ensues. The hope is that upstate New York will finally thaw out as the days get longer. The reality is upstate New York doesn’t thaw out until it’s darn well ready. The angst is if I don’t get a good bike ride in […]

If you can find a warm retreat in January, go! Last summer I was browsing a magazine and I came across a few lines about a roost of bobolinks that had been discovered in February in Bolivia. Eighty thousand, to be exact. Adjacent roosts totaled to over 130,000 of the birds — about 6.5% of […]

May all of our cycling friends enjoy many miles of super riding in 2007! I took this photo at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge while visiting there last year on a winter escape from cold, dreary upstate New York. Michael Hutchinson, who so eloquently captured my innermost feelings about a good bike ride, is a well-known […]

My continuing search for fitness on the bike is always leading me down new paths. All are appealing, but some entail dredging up baggage I’d just as soon not have to bother with. This happened just a few weeks ago when Graeme Street sent me his new Cyclo-FUEL program. What could be better? Three different […]

There’s something very relaxing about escaping for a few days to the colors of Vermont with a group of people you’ve never met before. It never ceases to amaze me how we immediately feel we’ve known each other for years. It must be the love of cycling that does it. That along with fresh air, […]

We don’t sponsor a team with the idea of winning everything in sight. We sponsor a team because we’ve met some of the nicest, coolest people in the world as a result. Kerry Litka joined our Team Terry this year and has quickly become an invaluable member. Not only can she ride, she’s a pillar […]