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Welcome, road rider.
Ready To Ride® is a Web site for sport-recreational cyclists who want to balance the demands of career and family with the physical, mental, and equipment requirements of long distance cycling. If you are looking for ideas on how to increase your mileage and your enjoyment of the sport of cycling, you will find scores of articles packed full of useful ideas you can put to work immediately. If you don’t see an article that interests you on the home page, use the search box to locate an article on a topic that interests you.
About David
Photo courtesy of Stephen Hinde, Rocky Mountain 1200.
David Rowe is a road bike rider who lives, works and rides in the Pacific Northwest. Like a lot of cyclists, David was comfortable riding 30 to 50 miles with his club. Then he was bitten by the Century bug. That’s not unusual, but he found that his approach to the sport helped him to ride the longer distances feeling great, completing Centuries with the notion that it would be fun to just keep on riding.
David’s goal-centered approach helped him attempt longer more challenging routes in the Cascade Range and on the Columbia Plateau with distance cyclists called randonneurs. What he learned while riding with these highly skilled cyclists helped him complete some of the most challenging long distance events in the Pacific Northwest, including the Cascade 1200k (2006), the Portland-to-Glacier 1000k (2007), and the Rocky Mountain 1200k (2008). In 2009, David entered Race Across Oregon, a 520-mile endurance cycling event, sanctioned by the Ultra Marathon Cycling Association. His second place finish in the RAO’s men’s solo 50-59 division qualified him for Race Across America.
With his son Evan, David created Ready to Ride® in 2005 with the goal of helping cyclists excel at distance cycling events of 100 miles or more. David and Evan have published two eBooks including A Rider’s Guide to Building the Long Distance Bicycle (2007), and The Ride of Your Life (2009). Both are available online from RoadBikeRider.
About Evan
Evan Rowe is a Graphic Designer living in Portland, Oregon. Evan began his career at Oregon State University as an Engineering major, but quickly discovered that the field didn’t offer him avenues to explore his creativity and artistic expression. He had long kept photography as a hobby that he spent a great deal of his personal time with, but he wanted to find something on the cutting edge of the artistic world. A few short months later, Evan found himself in a competitive group of 38 hand-picked students in pursuit of a BFA in Graphic Design, a program which allowed him to marry his hobby of photography with his newfound loves for typography, page layout and Brand/Identity design. Evan is currently working at a Branding design firm in Portland.
Evan is also a contributing photographer to RoadBikeRider.com, and his photo essay coverage has been featured on the RBR premium site in 2006 and 2007. Evan designed the book, A Rider’s Guide to Building the Long Distance Bicycle.
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