Touring
"Touring"
is a bit ambiguous among cyclists. On one hand, we use it in opposition
to "racing" --- rides that are not competitive, that don't
hurry past pleasant views, that seize opportunities to have coffee
and conversation
are usually referred to as tours. A
second sense of "touring" is the extended trip, usually for
several days. Such trips may include carrying all supplies for camping
overnight ("self-supported touring"); carrying only daily necessities
and having a support team transport one's camping gear and other belongings
to each day's destination ("supported touring"); or they may
involve carrying only the credit card that can be used to acquire all
the other necessities. The FLCC has devotees of each type of touring.
The Sunday ride is a weekly tour of the not-a-race kind and each year
members of the club go on longer trips, singly or in groups.
FLCC Sunday
Tours
The club has evolved
a repertoire of routes for its Sunday tours and in the past few years
we've created some maps and cue sheets for them. This was begun by
Phil Davis when he was the club's touring veep for several years. More
recently it has been carried into the computer age with digitized maps
that can be seen on and downloaded from the Web. I keep having the hallucination
that this job will be finished and require no more sitting at the computer
during good riding weather. But there seems always to be a backlog of
corrections as well as new rides to be defined, mapped, and put on the
web. Please excuse the mess. If there is specific information you need,
please contact me or another
club member.
Organized (commercial or otherwise) tours that sound really good:
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