MSB Cyclists... make a legit Tour of the USA

Make a lap through the Super Dome!

You could probably combine the tours de Georgia, Missouri, and California into enough stages for a tour de USA.

The US is too large for a complete tour.

The way to do it is in regions. Maybe something like New Orleans to Denver or Miami to New York.

Other problem is you probably can't use most of Midwest and Southwest unless you want people dying on bikes.

A great test would be maybe Michigan to Seattle.

You got flats, altitude, open roads, and would have true test.

So he said make a tour not an actual event.

A Tour de USA would be crazy expensive but it'd be the greatest cycling race ever known.

Simply the variation in terrain and conditions would make for an epic race. It'd take no less than 2-3 months to complete. No way we'd keep interest in it long enough to do it justice.

The creativity of the American public would make for some unbelievable rides that would create a mini economy for cyclists to complete the routes themselves.


Some of the races would have to include the following.

1) Across Long Island. Montauk to the Brooklyn Bridge or Coney Island

2) Manhattan Sprint. Starting at the Battery and through the financial district, Chinatown, Little Italy, SOHO, Union Square, by the Flat Iron bldg, up 5th Ave, by the Empire State Bldg, kick over to Park Ave through the Rockefeller Center, up through upper Eastside, route through Central Park, make the turn through Harlem hitting Columbia U, Jackie Robinson Park, Rucker Park, over to Garvey Park back to Central Park and hustle Central Park West to hit Broadway again at Columbus Circle with a velodrome type loop de loop around the roundabout and then dash to the finish line at Times Square.


3) Paul Revere's Ride - Follow the path he took as part of the route. It's a little more than 20 miles from Boston to Revere's intended destination in Lexington. So a short speed trial

4) Through the Mountains of Vermont

5) Philly to DC. Liberty Bell to the Capitol.

6) Appalachians. Would likely need to break this up into a couple stages. Start off in Virginia and through WV, TN, NC ending in Asheville, NC and Blue Ridge Mtn Run.

7) Bristol. Around the NASCAR track sprint.

8) Sherman's March - Atlanta to Savannah

9) First Coast Jaunt - Jacksonville down the coast then finish it in Disney World.

10) Miami Beach to Key West

11) Starting somewhere in LA and going through the swamps to NOLA.

12) the Natchez Trace

13) Trail of Tears, Follow either the northern or southern route from N. Alabama into Oklahoma.

14) Rust Belt - Pittsburgh to Detroit

15) Something involving Chicago

16) Minnesota, Canadian Border, N. Dakota, to the Badlands in S. Dakota... some mix of those

17) the Wheat and Corn Trail through Nebraska and Iowa

18) St. Louis to KC, or from the Arch down Route 66 or down the Mississippi River to Memphis or Vicksburg. (lot of options to route out of StL)

19) Kansas Plains into Colorado

20) Something involving Denver, CS, Boulder, Fort Collins????

21) Downhill White knuckle Mountain Run

22) Million Dollar Highway (uphill)

23) frick texas

24) New Mexico Casino Poker Run, seriously Taos to Santa Fe is probably the winner, or something involving Roswell.

25) Moab Desert or Great Salt Lake in Utah

26) Vegas Strip Sprint or Grand Canyon/Hoover Dam tie in with a Flagstaff to Vegas race

27) Seattle to Portland or vice versa

28) Alaska races, there's hundreds of interesting remote routes that could be chosen.

29) Hawaii races. Around the Big Island or through Honolulu

30) there's a million California races that could be done.




It'd be murderous.