Road Bike Asheville, North Carolina: Favorite Rides of the Blue Ridge Bicycle Club

by PARNASSUS, Jim Parham, Blue Ridge Bicycle Club

Book Overview

Asheville, NC has all the elements that make for superb road biking--a year-round riding climate, varied terrain, scenic backroads that see light automotive use, and a cycling-friendly population. Champion cyclist Greg Lemond has called Asheville's "Land of Sky" one of the best training locations in the world. In this guide, the Blue Ridge Bicycle Club offers 16 of the best routes in the Asheville area, ranging from 8 to 64 miles in length. Choose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889596000
• ISBN13: 9781889596006
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Milestone Press (NC)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.7" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Easy to use and accurate information. Good ride selection

I've ridden several rides following the book, and I found the milage accurate, the rides interesting, and the cue sheets very easy to use. The maps are separate from the cue sheets in the book, but flipping back and forth was not a problem. I personally found the cue sheets adaquate without the maps, but the maps provide a useful overview. If you're familliar with Jim Parham's other books, his mapping technique, while always good, has gotten better. These maps are really clear. However, on some of the rides, some intersections were too complicated for me to figure out from the map alone. The cue sheets were perfectly clear in these instances. Overall, this book is a model of ride information.