Last August my buddy Larry and I, along with our wives, set out for Montana for a four-day road bicycling adventure. We drove matching compact RVs complete with bicycle racks in back. The first part of quickly getting to Montana is to follow I-80, which meant leaving the pine-scented Sierra forests for the Nevada sage-scrub lands. We spent the first night in Winnemucca, Nevada, hooking up our life support of electricity to run the air conditioner.

Two days later we were camped in Billings on the banks of the Yellowstone River. That sounds so much better than the reality of not being really camped but instead parked in one of many parallel slots containing RVs (some supersized). The Yellowstone, though close by, was only accessed over a thorn-strewn river rock path that we chose to avoid.

It’s May! Bike to Work month happens, the Amgen Tour of California rolls to a venue near you, and there are tons of rides, races, tours, auctions and more this month. Get out and enjoy some quality time with your bike! Before you do, though, check out the Cycle California! calendar.

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Start with dependable, university-based research. Let the experts use their tools to determine whether one exercise is better than another. Usually, articles that sell a product will bend any research to fit their product.

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