“That’s it!” said Gainesville, Florida, Flahute (the hardest of the hard men) Big Headed Todd. He pulled out of the line, stopped pedaling and drag chuted backwards in an instant. For 12 windy miles on the drops, a Cat 1 road cyclist tortured nine of us at 30 mph. All on the rivet and nose on the […]
As my old cycling buddy Mark T. from East Mobile Bay used to say, “I’d rather arrive at a race under trained than sick.” Sage advice. But it didn’t work this time. Some human fomite at work transferred a horrible, hacking plague right during what I had hoped to be a training peak for Darby […]
On April 12, 2015, the Gravel Cyclist crew made the trip to Ferguson, North Carolina, and the Leatherwood Mountains Resort. Formerly known as Tom Dula’s Revenge, Darby Roubaix is a bicycle race approximately 50 miles in length, along a course of dirt, gravel and paved roads, featuring a tough climb to finish things off. Check out […]
Darby Roubaix (April 12, 2015), formerly known as Tom Dula’s Revenge, is a bicycle race approximately 50 miles in length, along a course of dirt, gravel and paved roads, featuring a tough climb to finish things off. The race starts and ends at the fantastic Leatherwood Mountains Resort. For 2015, the torch was passed from […]
