rbent Forum - Tour de Argyle, Sat Oct 4

FlyingLaZBoy Moderator '16 ICE SprintX fs, '16 Rocket, '12 KHS Mocha Posts: 5803	Tour de Argyle, Sat Oct 4 Sep 6^th, 2008, 8:27pm Yes, it's right in most people's back yards!!!! This should be a good rally to get RBENTers out to -- nice roads, and local! Granted, many of you already ride this area for FREE... http://www.corinthcycling.com/ $25 entry through Sept 26th.
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bikerteam Five Star Member Exceed Your Limitations Posts: 630	Re: Tour de Argyle, Sat Oct 4 Reply #1 - Sep 7^th, 2008, 5:18pm Yup - Terry, Mark L. and I did this one last year. After about the first mile, you get to cimb "Hilltop", which many of you know. After that, the ride is a breeze!
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mleuck Five Star Member rbent member Posts: 1105	Re: Tour de Argyle, Sat Oct 4 Reply #2 - Sep 7^th, 2008, 6:07pm Last years ride was very good although they did that goofy lap thing west of Argyle for the 100k, I hope they spread the route out a little more.
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Re: Tour de Argyle, Sat Oct 4
Reply #3 - Sep 9^th, 2008, 1:22pm

I'm planning on going to the Texas Flyers meeting today where one of the items on the agenda is the Tour De Argyle Changes/Updates.
I'm hoping they cover the reroute which puts us on a gravel(y)/rough road for a mile instead of a main road so I can pre-ride it. And I'll ask about the 100k loop. Christine (Shantar) and I plan on riding to/from the start to make it more of a day if we can wake up early enough.

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Re: Tour de Argyle, Sat Oct 4
Reply #4 - Sep 10^th, 2008, 11:23am

No updates that I was interested in anyhow.
The only new info I found was that they had about 200 people last year and expect more this year. Should be water, some kind of drink (gatorade/poweraid) and oranges at the stops.
Oh if you want to volunteer to run a stop or cornermarshal a out in the middle of no where stop sign let me know and I can get a number for you to call.

Don't know where the reroute is that goes over a not so or if the 100k lap is there.

If you were presigned up they sent an email out recently. This is what I hoped to get info on.
"Thanks for signing up for the 2008 Tour de Argyle, we are looking forward to seeing you all and having a nice ride. I did want to get your feedback on the long route, as we are considering altering it a bit to get it closer to 61 or 61.5 miles. Would you like that and still ride it? Please respond.
To make this longer route as safe as possible, we have routed it off of a main road and onto a much smaller road that has a short section of a little bumpy road and a short section of gravel road. My group and I ride this section all of the time, so we feel it is a safer alternative to a much busier road."

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Re: Tour de Argyle, Sat Oct 4
Reply #5 - Oct 1^st, 2008, 6:50pm

Quote from evblazer on Sep 10^th, 2008, 11:23am:

No updates that I was interested in anyhow.
The only new info I found was that they had about 200 people last year and expect more this year. Should be water, some kind of drink (gatorade/poweraid) and oranges at the stops.
Oh if you want to volunteer to run a stop or cornermarshal a out in the middle of no where stop sign let me know and I can get a number for you to call.

Don't know where the reroute is that goes over a not so or if the 100k lap is there.

If you were presigned up they sent an email out recently. This is what I hoped to get info on.
"Thanks for signing up for the 2008 Tour de Argyle, we are looking forward to seeing you all and having a nice ride. I did want to get your feedback on the long route, as we are considering altering it a bit to get it closer to 61 or 61.5 miles. Would you like that and still ride it? Please respond.
To make this longer route as safe as possible, we have routed it off of a main road and onto a much smaller road that has a short section of a little bumpy road and a short section of gravel road. My group and I ride this section all of the time, so we feel it is a safer alternative to a much busier road."

It looks like the 100k will now avoid the "2nd lap" west of Argyle and instead they have a nub going through north from Argyle through the south part of Denton.

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