Along with Colby, we spoke with Michelton-Scott’s Brent Bookwalter. Brent is an Olympian, a veteran of many grand tours, and the organizer of the popular Bookwalter Binge Gran Fondo. This year it takes place on October 26 in his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina.

The fifth-annual Bookwalter Binge Gran Fondo, which has grown into a Western North Carolina fall cycling classic, is giving it the old college try this year.