Why I Bike

With a quarter century of bike touring experience, Tony Ives has managed to do it all - a professional career (retired), a family, and extended multi day bike tours. His secret? Include family members (spouse) in as much of the tour as possible. And since bike tourist/travelers have multiple interests, music, literature, culture, and food, include those themes as well as you plan a bike tours.

In a sharp humorous wit, Tony communicates his decades old passion for bike touring with ease and reassuring suggestions for others. At 63 years of age, his attitude towards life is his propellant to stay healthy and fit - and always, always, thinking about the next tour.

On and off bike tourist (mostly on) who started out riding in supported tours and now creates his own adventure tours, Dennis Ordiway is a poster child for older professional adults wanting to get back on the bike. Meticulously planned tours (sometimes painfully so) he enjoys the pre-tour research as much as the actual tour - not too uncommon amongst adventure bike tourists. His ultimate desire is to become an American Nomad, after he retires.

A bicycle commuter, an adventure bike tourist, an at-home bike mechanic, Dennis is busy planning out his next adventure all the while still working full-time as a physicist. His next solo self-supported bikepacking adventure seems to be an extension of his previous tours - into Northern California's Redwood Forests, and Oregon. If you want to know about these areas for bike touring, just ask him. He has a passion for sharing details.

Dr.Tom Seabourne, professor at Northeast Texas Community College, is successful at what many people would consider "extreme activities". From the Race Across America (RAAM), an ultra marathon bicycle race across the United States, to breaking the Guinness World Record for indoor cycling, Tom succeeded at it all.

Tom is also a failure.

And in his new book, "Glitches into Gold: Live like a Champion" his story is about overcoming these heartbreaking, ego smashing, and health frightening events. He joins us to share his story and to talk to us about his love for cycling.