Photos from a Saturday-morning-epic-road-ride; to the foot of the Smokies and back. 90 miles.
Hurricane Ike blew through the gulf, and gas prices sky rocketed. Eric and I were planning to head to North Carolina and ride Bent Creek trails in Pisgah; instead I will leave the car parked.
Rolling out in the morning dew
Porterfield Gap
Walden Creek
Finally, a candidate worth voting for!
Panther Creek
Miller's Cove
Nails Creek
downtown
Game day traffic
Eric, Drew, Jonathon, Jeremy, Mark and myself ran into some fellow mountain-bikers on road-bikes in Walland; Alex and Nathan. We rode back in a big group.
The longest mile, heading home:
5 comments:
We did the same thing. We went east and over Joppa Mtn Rd for 68 miles. We had planned on riding Tanasi. I wasn't afraid of not finding gas. It was just my little protest and I left the element in the driveway.
Clipper
I asked myself, what would Eddy Merckx do? Ride to the Ride! I found the answer blowin in the tailwind.
I don't know any road routes east of Knoxville. I am interested, however, in Clinch Mountain and now Joppa Mtn.
^^^^Bravo.
I got one for you that's ~109
Ben, do have a road bike now? We should go ride. I am looking for a tour guide of east Knox roads. Or we could just go shred some trail!
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