I'm not trying to upstage Tony's trip to Mt. Airy to ride the Tour de Gaps route, just throwing out some other options for groups or individuals that might want to make a day trip to Pilot for some hilly/mountain training.
I have an old friend that rides with Mock Orange Bicycles (MOB) which is a shop in downtown Winston-Salem. My parents live that way and while I was home during the holidays he told me during the off season they lead shop rides every Saturday. That particular weekend they had ridden from the shop to Pilot Mountain and back. The mileage for this out and back route was in the mid 50s. I contacted MOB to get more details and find out if they would mind anyone tagging along. The MOB cycling team lead off season training rides from the shop every Saturday at 10:00. He said they don't climb Pilot every weekend, more often they head south for the rolling terrain instead of north to the mountains for their off season rides. Similar to the Gyros, they sent out an email about mid-week stating that weeks ride. I am now on the email distribution list. If anyone is interested I can inform the group the next time they head to Pilot. The shop employee I talked to said they would be more than happy to have a bunch of Gyros tag along on their shop rides (they have A & B groups with guides doing the same routes). He also said they could give us routes to do on our own leaving from the store or anywhere that suits us. I'm going to watch the emails and if they post a route that interests me I'm going to try and make it. If anyone is interested let me know and maybe we can work out transportation. Thanks, Courtney --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you foolishly subscribed to the Gyro email group. To post useless drivel to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] We love reading 3000 line messages so please don't bother trimming your replies. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
