In mid-summer of 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic changed anything that might be considered routine, a friend and I crossed into Canada at Beebe Plain on what would be the last of several annual bicycle tours on the excellent rail trails and bike routes created by our neighbor to the north. We hadn’t pedaled too many kilometers when we noticed that something had dramatically changed since the previous year: E-bikes were everywhere and in abundance. When we stopped in a bike shop in S...| The Montpelier Bridge
Hundreds of cyclists took to rain-drenched dirt roads Saturday morning, April 26, for the annual Muddy Onion dirt-road bike tour put on by Montpelier’s Onion River Outdoors. Starting from School Street in Montpelier, across from Kellogg-Hubbard Library, they headed out over backroads on routes of 58, 40, or 20 miles that looped through East Montpelier, Calais, Woodbury, and, for the longest tour, Cabot. An overnight downpour and showers off and on during the day made for muddy, interesti...| The Bridge