we aren't anti-lyrca...

Moving through a tunnel of green in a single file line, I could hear behind me, “This is just what the doctor ordered.”

Another gal commented how “she’d be able to go all day if she moved at this pace.”

Someone else remarked that this place was “so beautiful.”

Usually when you think of a cyclist, you think of this ⬇️ 

Lycra //Lycra//Lycra//Thigh Burn and Sweat

At Circle and Spoke, we think that cyclists come in all shades of speed and ability and interests. No lycra required!

You could enjoy biking to connect with your child.

You could enjoy biking to go buy groceries.

You could enjoy biking to breathe on a pretty trail.

I enjoy offering to folks the chance to move, at a leisurely pace. For Pedal, Paddle and Pause earlier this month, we pedaled and settled into the beauty of the trail and took in the cascading waterfalls, mountain rhododendrons and endless shades of green.

It’s a bit countercultural to what a lot of folks associate with biking. 

Yes… you can go biking and relax. 

Yes… you can go biking and also not tire yourself. 

Yes… you can go biking and feel totally content not completing the trail. 

What might you want to carve out for yourself and choose at your own pace, at your own cadence and drop the story of what is typically packaged as how you “should” be engaging in that activity? 

Wheels up, 

Ellen