| Title: | Bicycling |
| Notice: | Bicycling for Fun |
| Moderator: | JAMIN::WASSER |
| Created: | Mon Apr 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3214 |
| Total number of notes: | 31946 |
Prompted by Fred Mudgett's note on the Five-Borough Bike Tour in NYC,
here's a placeholder for the 1992 Assault on Mount Mitchell.
Reaching ever-higher levels of price if not performance,
the organizers are charging $50 this year and limiting
ridership to 700 (which apparently was filled moments
after their announcement) ... plus a waiting list.
(The last few years have seen 1700-1900 riders.)
As always, you can look in prior years' notes to find more
info, and you can contact the Spartanburg Freewheelers if
interested.
-john
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2243.1 | anybody going "unofficial"? | NOVA::FISHER | Rdb/VMS Dinosaur | Tue Apr 14 1992 18:57 | 5 |
Ok, so this year the fee is $50 and it's already sold out.
How many unofficial participants are expected?
ed
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| 2243.2 | possibilities | SHALOT::ELLIS | John Lee Ellis - assembly required | Tue Apr 14 1992 19:35 | 16 |
I don't know how many people go unofficially. The trouble with doing
so, should one desire to, is that it's a point-to-point century, and
you must have registered to get the bus service back to Spartanburg.
Support vehicles aren't allowed up on the summit any more ... but
what a vehicle could do is wait down in Marion for you (you retrace the
last 25 miles back down the mountain) or on the Parkway just beyond
the Mt. Mitchell road turnoff (NC hwy. 218) at mile 96 of the route.
Or of course one could simply bike back to Spartanburg. :-)
Anyway, all but the latter are conjectural solutions, put forth in
the interests of innovative thought.
-john
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