There’s a morning in October — you’ll know it when it arrives — when you clip in, roll out, and realize the air has finally turned. The soup of a Georgia summer has burned off. The light comes in low and gold. The first fallen leaves crunch under your tires, and somewhere ahead a ridge…
Island Hopping in Croatia by Bike and Boat There’s a particular kind of morning that only exists on a Croatian bike and boat tour. You step out of your cabin, coffee in hand, and the boat is already tied up in a stone harbor that hasn’t changed much in five hundred years. Someone is unloading…
From the flat, rails-to-trails glide of the Silver Comet to the technical singletrack of the north Georgia mountains, the Peach State packs an astonishing amount of variety into two wheels. That’s why you can pedal past Civil-rights landmarks in the heart of Atlanta, roll along a converted railroad named for a racehorse in the west…
Comparison-shop European bike tours long enough and the listings start to blur. Similar routes, similar photos, similar mileage, and prices that look close enough to make you wonder what separates one week from another. The route is rarely the answer. What actually shapes your trip is everything built around it: who meets you, where you…
There’s a stretch of Georgia most people only ever see in summer; sunburned, swatting gnats, fighting for a parking spot at the beach. They never meet the coast the way BRAG cyclists do. That’s because we know the truth. The Georgia coast saves its best self for winter! The heat lifts. The gnats go underground.…
Ask most BRAG veterans about their most memorable ride, and you’ll get a good story. Ask Kevin Fitzgerald, and you might get a scene from Georgia Public Television. In 1990, framebuilder Jim Bradford needed someone to pilot his tandem for a day, so he handed the reins to Kevin—and Jim’s 8-year-old son, Blake, took the…
Before the wine, the cork forests, and the medieval hilltop towns of the Alentejo, give yourself a day in Lisbon, the city that started it all. If you’re booked on BRAG International’s Portugal Bike Tour through the Alentejo, you already know the ride ahead is something special: wineries, converted convents, and a night under Dark…
The Ultimate Guide for Active Adults Winter on the Florida and Georgia Coasts offers the perfect escape from harsh northern climates, and what better way to explore the Golden Isles than on two wheels? Winter bike tours in Florida and Georgia provide an ideal combination of comfortable weather, stunning scenery, and gentle exercise that’s perfect…
BRAG cyclists safely travel along quiet Georgia backroads to cross the state in 2015.
The Bicycle Ride Across Georgia (BRAG) took the BRAG Bus, 10 cyclists from Georgia, and our iconic Big Red tent to Iowa at the end of July for our annual pilgrimage to the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (or RAGBRAI). RAGBRAI is an annual bike ride that takes tens of thousands cyclists across…