Bicycle Ride Across Georgia

The Wisdom of 40 Summers: Kevin Fitzgerald’s Sage Guide to BRAG

By Stephanie | August 14, 2026 |

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…

BRAG Dream Team Origin

By Stephanie | January 7, 2019 |

Before Lance Armstrong put cycling on the map in the minds of Americans and prior to childhood obesity becoming recognized as an epidemic, the Dream Team program was created in 1994 by the Bicycle Ride Across Georgia (BRAG) to offer Atlanta Public School students the opportunity to get fit by cycling across the state. After…