Now here’s a goddamn bike race for you. Only one stage — but it’s 2,745 miles long, from Banff, Alberta, Canada, to Antelope Wells, N.M., and there are no soigneurs, domestiques, chefs, team cars, buses, officials, checkpoints, etc., et al., and so on and so forth. Strictly a garage-band sort of deal. Ride or die.
The Tour Divide runs along the Adventure Cycling Association’s Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, and the association has just hired the women’s record holder for the event, Jill Homer, as project manager and deputy editor of Adventure Cyclist magazine.
I like this note in the rules:
7. Tour Divide is a web-administered, do-it-yourself challenge based on the purest of wagers: the gentlemen’s bet or agreement. Nothing to win or lose but honor.
How refreshing.
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You in training for it, O’G?
Actually, when’s the MDM edition kick off? I’ll be sure to bring a cooler of beer to watch you slog by. If you’re lucky, I’ll sling some beer on ya.
hey Patrick i have been following Kent Petersons antics for years…check his blog at http://kentsbike.blogspot.com/
dude blows me away with his mileage…makes me feel like the old fat bastard i is!
He did that shit on a singlespeed….i’m such a pussy….
O, Lord, no,
The day you see me riding from Canada to Mexico is because the cops are chasing me and the car won’t start.