Red Bull. A name so synonymous with action sports that you may even briefly forget that they are the makers of the popular energy drink available at your closest convenience or grocery store. With ventures like the Red Bull Rampage and even a Formula 1 team, it’s not a surprise any longer when you see their name on something. What is a surprise is when they ask lil’ol’ BeersNGears to be the partner for screening one of their films. To which we said yes. The film is called Nor

There are more ways than ever to power transportation–there’s the long-time-running world-standard of gasoline and diesel powered internal combustion engines; there’s the multi-millennia-tested but somewhat outdated use of animal power, and then there are things that technology has brought us like electric and even self-driving vehicles (whoa!). This new technology is sure to beat them all though! It’s empowered by beer! R Our sanctioned rides will all start at 9AM, and make

Tofurkey Burner Race Better late than never, I guess. It’s been a while since I’ve had a computer for processing photos so these have been just sitting on my camera for months. I’m happy to say I’ve survived and I believe am made stronger for enduring this eternity of weeks and months without photo processing capabilities. On the road to recovery, I edited these photos from the Tofurkey Burner CX race at the new Cyclocross course at the corner of Patterson and 10th, on the ou

What could possibly be better than the Brag Wagon except more Brag Wagon? This is a universal truth that goes without saying. And this is exactly why BeersNGears will be hiring more and more guides, for more and more Brag Wagon trips, for more and more Bike Trips to Brag About. So stoked that BeersNGears will have none other than Mike Cobler guiding you through your Brag Wagon journey. When he’s not fixing someone’s bike, Mike has been known to look at 80’s skateboarding maga

HalloWheels 2017 This year’s HalloWheels–Winston-Salem’s first and only bicycle festival–is being presented to you by the number 4. Some of our favorite words consist of 4 letters; words like “ride”, “bike”, and “beer”. As in, this is the 4th year we’re doing this thing and it’s guaranteed to be at least 4 times better, according to satellites at NASA. In some ways, we’ve kept a lot of the same things that make HalloWheels so much fun: it’s still 3 days of bicycle shenanigans

In this article, I will lay out the foundation for why “More Riding Is Better Than Less.” Just kidding, sounds like the beginning of a terribly boring piece, and if you’ve found this, I doubt you would disagree with the sentiment. So we’ll just jump straight to the how to make that a reality part. If you’ve been following along, you might know that Amy and I spent some time living in Raleigh, NC, a city with a vibrant, amazing cycling culture. We moved to Winston-Salem on pur

Why we keep riding after the racing is over All the typical thoughts of an athlete ran through my head, except for the one that made me realize I was not prepared for such an event.  This didn’t happen until reality set in, but if you knew me back then, “quitter” or “scaredy cat” would not have been terms to describe me.  So I prepared,  like the determined athlete I knew I was.  I managed to locate a used Hybrid, (part road, part trail bike), slogged through multiple running

A few years ago I was sitting around in my sweatpants with a hot cup of coffee in my hands, a lazy Saturday mid-morning unfolding.  The temperature was cold and I had been riding a lot earlier in the week and was resigned to a day off.  But an instinct told me to get out there, and now!  I didn’t have a vision of any particular ride, but I dashed down to the basement and geared up for a cold one, with just a feeling that something special was about to happen.  Looking over my

According to Wikipedia, “cycling culture refers to cities and countries which actively support a large percentage of utility cycling.” And while riding for utility is where a large portion of the culture originates, if you ask me, it goes far beyond that. To me, the word utility conjures up emotions of things to do that I don’t necessarily enjoy doing. Work things and checklists, but my view on cycling culture is just the opposite. I still ride for utility. I run errands, go

Having a harvest festival in 1621 meant you wouldn’t starve over the coming winter. Many of the settlers coming to America would not make it through their first winter and these days, we can plan a three day party like the Pilgrims and Native Americans did and have it catered. We don’t even have to cook it. Today, we live in a society of plenty and while most of us will never know what it truly means to be hungry, there are still Americans who don’t know where their next meal

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.” – Ernest Hemingway At BeersNGears, we have taken what Ernest Hemingway once said, and created a no-drop, group bike ride from it. It’s called “Discover Your City” and the point of these rides is to discover the city we live in atop our favorite bike. We ride our bikes to local businesses to learn about the owner’s, their story and what they sell

For those of you who have been following along, you know that there’s been a lot of drama in the local mountain biking community. For those of you who haven’t, let me fill you in. A Lesson In History There have been many people before me who have worked hard to organize, get approvals, plan, design, build, and maintain the trails we have. To all of them, my most sincere, thank you! In years past, the vast majority of trail building and maintenance has been spearheaded by one

You may remember a survey that we sent out towards the end of last year with questions like, “would you be more likely to ride to a business that offered ‘perks’ to riders?” and, “where do you ride your bike?”. Our goal for the survey was to learn more about the riding habits of people in Winston-Salem to help us be more effective in getting businesses to sign up to be a Bicycle Benefits business and we also learned a few other cool bits of information. I was surprised to fin

I’m pretty sure you’ve heard about Habitat for Humanity by now but what you may not have heard about all the things Habitat does for our community or ways you can be involved. They not only have a long history of helping people all over the world become homeowners, they help them learn to maintain home-ownership permanently. Since 1976, Habitat has helped 6.8 million people find strength, stability and independence through safe, decent and affordable shelter. The organization

“Eat. Drink. Think.” is the theme for the eleventh annual Earth Day Fair put on by the Piedmont Environmental Alliance and the goal is to educate the public on sustainability. It’s a free event with workshops and demonstrations, live music, and vendors selling creative and sustainable products. So bikes are an obvious shoe-in. We were stylin’ at last years Earth Day Fair with bike valet and the coolest Spirograph ever made, but this year we wanted to turn it up a bit. View th

Not too long ago, I wrote about a big project the city was working on which needed our support. You guys came through in a big way and more than 70 people showed up to one of these meetings and now, figuratively, we will have a Multi-Use Path in our city that will connect Baptist Hospital on Hawthorne Rd. to the Strollway, Wake Forest Innovation Quarter and Salem Creek Greenway. I say “figuratively” because the next step is to find a way to pay for the completion of the Multi

The Earth, without art, would just be Eh. So it stands to reason that the cycling industry (address: Earth) also depends on art and artists. The only difference is their methods and mediums. You see, the definition of art is — something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings. In that case I can think of many artists. The person with an idea for the newest, fastest race bike or the person that feels their

You may remember our first ever Discover Your City ride where we hijacked the Community Bike Ride and planned a special trip to Twin City Hive. It’s been awhile since that happened so we’ve planned another one. There is no hijacking required for this edition of Discover Your City, just one strategic stop along our route. During this ride we will be making a pitstop at Small Batch Beer Co. where they brew beer one barrel at a time right here in downtown Winston-Salem. There we

Cyclocross is said to have gotten its start by cyclists challenging other cyclists to race to a nearby landmark. Steeples were often the tallest, most visible landmarks for many people of the time and gave way to a “Steeplechase” type of race. There were no predetermined routes or iPhones so navigating to the landmark mark may have included dirt roads, jumping fences, crossing streams, blazing trails, running you and your bike up stairs, and riding through the neighbors field

This year has been a real year of discovery for us at BeersNGears. What I knew coming into it is Winston-Salem desperately needed a bridge built. The gap from person in spandex to person on the couch had to be spanned for Camel City to fully embrace cycling for how truly great it is. How great is it? The bicycle has been a champion for Women’s rights, a means of opportunity to grow yourself or community around the world, still the most efficient form of moving people around,