Bike for Life Stories
In Bike for Life Stories, bestselling author and journalist Roy M. Wallack narrates published stories about his cycling adventures from all over the world that he hopes will amuse, teach, inspire and make you think.
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Episodes
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Friday Dec 18, 2020
In 2005, on a press junket to test the new Specialized Roubaix shock-absorbing road bike, Roy finds out what it’s like to ride the world’s most jarring race.
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Russ Allen, the longest-lived member of the 1932 U.S. Olympic team, explains what it was like to be one of the world’s best six-day riders in Madison Square Garden in the 1930s, make a living as a professional gambler, stay super fit and ride a bike 30 mph into your 90s, and serve the greatest-ever stoker on Roy M. Wallack’s tandem.
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
A father-and-son tandem team takes on the amazing 335-mile, car-free C&O Canal/Great Allegheny Passage gravel path from Washington DC to Pittsburgh PA
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Join Roy as he and his bike take on the 13,796-foot Mauna Kea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii, the steepest, highest and shortest sea-to-summit climb in the world
Saturday Dec 05, 2020
Saturday Dec 05, 2020
A fat bike gives Roy more than he bargained for when unexpectedly dense snow turns an easy Sierra adventure into an all-day ordeal
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Friday Dec 04, 2020
The second half of Roy M. Wallack's experience at the world's hardest bike race
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Roy M. Wallack, a 6-time finisher, explains why La Ruta de los Conquistadores, the legendary 3-day, coast-to-coast mountain bike ride across Costa Rica, is known and feared as the World's Hardest Bike Race.