- INTREPID CYCLISTS ON their own or in small groups braved the rain and sometimes chilly temps on Saturday to ride in the 10th Vermont Gran Fondo. With a start and finish in Bristol, several hundred riders climbed up and over as many as six mountain gaps and covered up to 145 miles. Independent photo/Steve James
- INTREPID CYCLISTS ON their own or in small groups braved the rain and sometimes chilly temps on Saturday to ride in the 10th Vermont Gran Fondo. With a start and finish in Bristol, several hundred riders climbed up and over as many as six mountain gaps and covered up to 145 miles. Independent photo/Steve James
- AS HE NEARS the top of the Appalachian Gap in Starksboro during Saturday’s Vermont Gran Fondo bike ride, Brian McInnis is so excited that he pops a wheelie. The owner of a bike shop in Medford, Mass., McInnis biked over four Green Mountain gaps during eight and a half rain-filled hours. He said he had a lovely time. Independent photo/Steve James
- INTREPID CYCLISTS ON their own or in small groups braved the rain and sometimes chilly temps on Saturday to ride in the 10th Vermont Gran Fondo. With a start and finish in Bristol, several hundred riders climbed up and over as many as six mountain gaps and covered up to 145 miles. Independent photo/Steve James
- SEAN SWEENEY OF Leicester leads a peloton approaching Bread Loaf. Independent photo/Steve James
- INTREPID CYCLISTS ON their own or in small groups braved the rain and sometimes chilly temps on Saturday to ride in the 10th Vermont Gran Fondo. With a start and finish in Bristol, several hundred riders climbed up and over as many as six mountain gaps and covered up to 145 miles. Independent photo/Steve James
- INTREPID CYCLISTS ON their own or in small groups braved the rain and sometimes chilly temps on Saturday to ride in the 10th Vermont Gran Fondo. With a start and finish in Bristol, several hundred riders climbed up and over as many as six mountain gaps and covered up to 145 miles. Independent photo/Steve James
- MOUNT ABE GRAD Biene Harris monitors the App Gap approach in the rain during the Vermont Gran Fondo. Independent photo/Steve James
- INTREPID CYCLISTS ON their own or in small groups braved the rain and sometimes chilly temps on Saturday to ride in the 10th Vermont Gran Fondo. With a start and finish in Bristol, several hundred riders climbed up and over as many as six mountain gaps and covered up to 145 miles. Independent photo/Steve James
- INTREPID CYCLISTS ON their own or in small groups braved the rain and sometimes chilly temps on Saturday to ride in the 10th Vermont Gran Fondo. With a start and finish in Bristol, several hundred riders climbed up and over as many as six mountain gaps and covered up to 145 miles. Independent photo/Steve James
- INTREPID CYCLISTS ON their own or in small groups braved the rain and sometimes chilly temps on Saturday to ride in the 10th Vermont Gran Fondo. With a start and finish in Bristol, several hundred riders climbed up and over as many as six mountain gaps and covered up to 145 miles. Independent photo/Steve James
- INTREPID CYCLISTS ON their own or in small groups braved the rain and sometimes chilly temps on Saturday to ride in the 10th Vermont Gran Fondo. With a start and finish in Bristol, several hundred riders climbed up and over as many as six mountain gaps and covered up to 145 miles. Independent photo/Steve James
- INTREPID CYCLISTS ON their own or in small groups braved the rain and sometimes chilly temps on Saturday to ride in the 10th Vermont Gran Fondo. With a start and finish in Bristol, several hundred riders climbed up and over as many as six mountain gaps and covered up to 145 miles. Independent photo/Steve James
- A LONE RIDER nears the App Gap as part of last weekend’s Vermont Gran Fondo. Independent photo/Steve James






















