RALEIGH – Wit Tuttell, the Executive Director of Visit NC, announced the 2019 Cycle North Carolina “Mountains to Coast” Route with the help of town representatives in a pre-recorded video released at the Cycle North Carolina Route Announcement Party, held at Tobacco Road Sports Café & Brewery in downtown Raleigh on January 30. Here is the video of the “Mountains to Coast” Tour announcement. The twenty-first annual ride is scheduled for a Blowing Rock to Atlantic Beach route, from September 28 to October 5, 2019. With beautiful tourist stops along scenic back roads, the “Mountains to Coast” trek is the…
While the National Races are not until 4:50 PM (Women’s 90 Minute) and 6:40 PM (Men’s 110 Minutes), there are still other races and lots of activities that have already started in downtown High Point today. The National races each have a $10,000 purses. That makes it one of the biggest cycling in the United States! There are Food Vendors, Exhibits, even a few cycling movies, a Beer Garden and a lot more. It’s all FREE, excluding why you might purchase to eat or drink, For more details, head over to the High Point Cycling Classic website or Downtown High…
The men and women professional riders head to High Point, NC this week for the USA Cycling Pro Criterium National Championships held in conjunction with the High Point Cycling Classic. Downtown High Point will be converted into a high speed cycling course, where cyclists will race 40 minutes or more for prizes. In additional to the races, a festival, exhibits and other activies are scheduled, including two free concerts (Friday and Saturday). More info can be found at the 4th Annual High Point Cycling Classic Website.
Four-day High Point Cycling Classic includes food, music, kids zone and art HIGH POINT, N.C., June 11, 2013 — Downtown High Point will be filled with a blur of fast-moving bicycles on July 27 as elite men and women riders from across the nation compete in the 2013 USA Cycling Professional Criterium National Championships. The races are the U.S. biking world’s equivalent of the NCAA Tournament, the Super Bowl and the Daytona 500. The four-day 2013 High Point Cycling Classic being held July 25 to 28 will feature a variety of fun activities for people of all ages, including outdoor…
I still remember the Sunday afternoon when Lance Armstrong rode/drove right by my house out on Old Oak Ridge Road, as the race he was involved in, swung right through our town…. Armstrong was just getting rolling/started on his cycling endeavors and the race that came through Greensboro was the Tour DuPont/Tour de Trump…. Donald Trump was sponsoring this race in its early days/stages and then DuPont products picked up the race and became the sponsor…. There were several stages/legs of the race and one of those just happened to take the bike riders right through out town and as…