Velodromedary celebrates “slow adventures by bike.”

Hey, I’m Max, just a guy in the SF Bay Area who likes to explore and enjoy the outdoors by bike… and who rustles up groups of friends and friends-of-friends for occasional rides, usually in the 30-70 mile range with food involved (here are some of my favorite routes over the years).

I’m all about the casual sightseeing-detours-and-chatting pace– even on a long uphill, I always stop for blackberries:

This blog was most active ~2009-2018, then life and social media evolved and a lot of my immediate post-ride maps+photo sharing moved elsewhere (strava, instagram, texts).

I still occasionally organize group rides, but only post here after an especially interesting new route or a longer-distance tour. I keep the site online as a way to remember and share past routes, and from time to time I even hear from random strangers that they’ve found it useful… feel free to get in touch at max.bikeit (at gmail dot com)…

2026 edit: I just moved this site off of Tumblr where it’s been since 2009 (as bikeit.tumblr.com), but which was getting slower and more annoying to update, to a static site built with Hugo. I expect some links and images broke during the translation, but I’m fixing them as I notice them… such is the life of online content (many of the blog’s external links from 15 years ago have already broken, I wish I’d saved screenshots or archives of some of them).