Andy Tetmeyer

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• Posted PBP - my best excuse ever to Bike Hugger
  Leaving Brest the weather was great. Bright sunshine, about 70 degrees, a little tailwind. Although the first stretch out of Brest is uphill, back over Roc Trezevel, I was feeling a lot better about riding back to Paris than I...
• Posted PBP - SLEEP? what is this sleeping you speak of? to Bike Hugger
  When I got to Carhaix, the last checkpoint before Brest, I had been awake for 29 hours. I had never been awake that long before, much less ridden 300+ miles at the same time. In spite of latching onto a...
• Posted PBP - Misery to Bike Hugger
  The first night was the best thing about PBP. Although I didn’t see any French countryside, I couldn’t really see the hills coming, and at least the first night it did not rain. For me, the first night was the...
• Posted PBP - God bless the Italians! to Bike Hugger
  8pm Monday: the 16th edition of PBP leaves Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. I went for a brisk 8 mile walking tour of Paris in the morning, then went back to the hotel and got four hours of sleep. I caught the train to...
• Posted PBP - part deux to Bike Hugger
  Brevets completed, notes signed, 80 hr group chosen, children shuttled off to relatives, my wife and I head to Paris. The fun started even before we boarded the first plane. A few years ago my friend (and frame supplier) Paul...
• Posted Paris-Brest-Paris Update to Bike Hugger
  I went to France 3 weeks ago for vacation. Well, that and a bike ride. Every four years the Audax Club Parisien runs Paris-Brest-Paris, a 1200K ride from Paris, to Brest, and back. The ride has a long history, having...
• Posted RAGBRAI to Bike Hugger
  Note that when Andy told us about building a RAGBRAI bus for Lance, we thought that was so cool we invited him to post about it. He’ll also post later about Paris-Brest-Paris. I’m driving down I-35 tomorrow to meet up...

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