UPCOMING EVENTS

SPRING AUDAX RIDE: Sunday, 24 May

CHEAHA TWO DAY TOUR: Saturday and Sunday, July 18 and 19

WAYNESVILLE, NC ADVENTURE: Thurs thru Sun, Oct 1, 2, 3, and 4

Other rides and tune ups: TBA

I expect I don’t have to do a lot of explaining about the Audax Ride. To date, this blog has been devoted to doing just that. There will be more in the future. For now, I want to deliver some more details on the two new touring projects.

The Cheaha Two Day Tour: This will be an out-and-back. We’ll leave from Peachtree City, GA. We will spend Saturday, 18 July, riding to the summit of Cheaha mountain. That’s just about 100 miles. Then we will finish the day’s riding by doing another 14 miles, down off of the mountain, and to our overnight location in Oxford, Alabama. The site I’ve chosen for the overnight stop is located in the middle of a group of hotels, with several restaurants (including a Waffle House) all in the same general locale. We’ll spend the night in hotels.

On day two of this tour, we will get up, check out, meet for breakfast, and then ride back to Peachtree City. The return trip will be about 100 miles. It will not include a climb up Cheaha.

We will be self-supporting on this trip. That means, we will bring what we need. We won’t have motor support. Sure, we’ll have stops along the way. We can use the stops to buy food and water, as well as taking the odd “breather.”

The Waynesville, NC Adventure: This is a semi-supported tour. We’ll recruit a few drivers among our friends and significant others. The idea is we’ll spend three days doing cycle touring up to Waynesville. We can meet our drivers at the overnight stops along the way. I’ll be supplying a lot of info on accomodations soon.

On the fourth day, we’ll do a spectacular ride up onto the Blue Ridge Parkway, to Water Rock Knob, the highest point on the Parkway. Thisw ride will return to Waynesville. Once we’re back in Waynesville, we meet our drivers for the last time, load our bikes up, and drive back home.

The overnight stops on this trip will be in Dahlonega, GA; Dillard, GA; and in Waynesville, NC.

Preparations and training: Keep watching this blog. I’ll be putting up a lot of training advice, posting dates and times for some useful training rides, discussing equipment, and providing more details on the trips themselves. Please do feel free to comment, and please do contact me if you are interested in any part of this project.

One last detail. I will not be handling any money for the Cheaha or Waynesville tours. Each rider will be responsible for booking overnight lodgings, and for their own meals. In other words, I’ll get you to places to eat and sleep, doing so is your responsibility.