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Road Cycling The Blue Ridge High Country

...sometimes you just need to buy the book! Road Cycling The Blue Ridge High Country book by Tim Murphy

 

If you're coming to our area for more than a day, you'll need to know where to ride based on your location & ability level.  Don't spend hours searching the web for routes that may be incorrect! Local cyclist, Tim Murphy, has made it simple with his book Road Cycling the Blue Ridge High Country, Retail $14.99.  This is the most popular book we sell at Boone Bike! Give us a call and we'll be happy to mail one to your home so you can begin planning your next High Country escape!

"Screaming white-knuckle descents. Peaceful creek-side rambles. Rides across high mountain balds, through orchards, along old railroad grades, and past Christmas-tree farms. And, of course, grueling ascents, like the category-one climb up Beech Mountain, which gains nearly 1,500 vertical feet in three miles."

“You can’t play baseball at Yankee Stadium,” says author Tim Murphy, “but you can experience the climb that drew some of the world’s top endurance athletes, and changed one of them forever.”

“It’s a classic,” Lance Armstrong said of the Beech Mountain climb after his stage win there in the 1995 Tour DuPont. Armstrong’s inspiring comeback from cancer began during a training camp in these same mountains three years later.

The Blue Ridge Mountains provide some of the finest road cycling in the country, and the 26 rides in this volume constitute the best the High Country has to offer. Six mountain and foothills counties in northwestern North Carolina are covered, as are portions of southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee. Each ride description includes precise directions, information about road characteristics, detailed maps and elevation profiles, and lists of food, services, and outdoor options along the route."