At a Glance BRAG International’s Tuscany bike tour starts with a shuttle from Florence to San Gimignano on Day 1. The tour also ends in Florence, with a guided walking tour and a pasta-making class on Day 6. Spending 24 hours in Florence before the tour gives you time to recover from jet lag and…
Century bike rides (100 miles) are very popular among recreational bike riders. History of the Century Bike Ride may explain why!
At a Glance BRAG International’s Loire Valley bike tour begins in Tours, not Paris. You fly into Charles de Gaulle (CDG), then make your own way to Tours for Day 1 check-in, bike fittings, and the welcome dinner. Spending 24 hours in Paris the day before gives you time to beat jet lag and see…
Some career changes come from years of careful planning. Jeff Havermann’s came from a carnival game he hadn’t thought about since the mid-1970s. During 2025 Spring Tune-Up, Franklin was welcoming riders and mentioned that the town of Madison was fundraising to beautify its town square by selling tickets for a game called “Rooster Roulette.” Franklin…
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…