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Speed Week’s Friday race kicked off a three-day street festival in “Bike Town”, Spartanburg, SC. The downtown race was part of an Omnium weekend and on the National Criterium Calendar. It was great to see the City of Spartanburg so invested in the race, offering up primes and supplying bike-share bikes for a fun, crashed-filled [...]
Are you looking for a road trip to watch a bike race? You and your pals should make the annual drive down I-85 to one of the greatest crit races in the world – The Terrapin Twilight in Athens Georgia. This is the flagship race of the national USA CRITS Championship Series. Charlotte has a [...]
The ninth annual Presbyterian Hospital Invitational Criterium in downtown Charlotte brought out the heavy hitters. The women were racing for 25 miles and for a $25,000 total purse while the men were racing for 50 miles and $75,000. In addition the prime bell was going to clang all night long with cash. On the start [...]
The third annual Boone-Roubaix will again draw hundreds of cyclists to Boone, NC on April 21 for a unique opportunity to participate in a European-style “Spring Classic.” In the same vein as the great monuments of cycling like the the, “Hell of the North” Paris-Roubaix, the Hell of the High Country will offer recreational riders [...]
Someone recently asked me to recommend some road bike ascents to do in the Southeast. The inquirer had two weeks for a big trip and wanted to climb as much as possible over that timeframe. With so many available could I pare a list down to the essentials (climbing wise)? It was a very interesting [...]
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