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…

From Watching BRAG Pass His House to Rolling With It: Walter Hicks’ Full-Circle Journey

By Stephanie | July 15, 2026 |

“For me, BRAG is a disconnection from the real world of busy work schedules, emails, phone calls, etc.. Here, you spend most of the day on the road, enjoying nature and making new friends. In the afternoons, you are enjoying great music and beers. At night, you are enjoying those campfire discussions about what if…

Origin Story of the Cycling Men of Leisure (it’s for Women, too!)

By Stephanie | February 13, 2026 |

The tiny Georgia town barely showed up on the map, the kind of place you’d drive through without slowing down if you were in a car. But Adam Baranski and Michael Sharp, aka the Cycling Men of Leisure, weren’t in a car—they were on bicycles, late in a long BRAG day, legs already in negotiations…