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Beyond the 719 Ride

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1911 Tour de France

The 1911 Tour de France was the ninth edition of the race. It consisted of 15 stages and included the race’s first foray into the high Alps.

Front of the peloton in the 2017 Tour de France

The Tour

The Tour is a fun, fast, and entertaining tale celebrating cycling and the Tour de France while acknowledging a sad part of cycling’s past. It’s Jan Ullrich finishing second in the doping marred 1998 Tour de France.

Vincenzo Nibali in the 2014 Tour de France

The Race

The Race harnesses the sensations of the best ride of your life and the thrill of the most electrifying race you’ve ever watched. It’s not a novel about cycling. It IS cycling!

A Race for Madmen

A Race for Madmen gives context and color to the legendary stories that have made it into our collective cycling consciousness. It’s like a well-executed team time trial — graceful, fluid and a beautiful thing to experience.

Fausto Coppi and Jean Robic ride up Alpe d'Huez in the 1952 Tour de France

Pedalare! Pedalare!

Pedalare! Pedalare! is light on tales of racing, heavy on the analysis of Italian society, generous with introductions to notable Italian cyclists and absorbed with The Golden Age of Italian Cycling. It performs well, deserves respect and is worth a read.

It’s All About the Bike

A devotional to one of humankind’s greatest inventions, It’s All About the Bike celebrates the tradition, lore and beauty of bicycles. It delivers a mature winning performance that can be appreciated for its simplicity, elegance and manner.

Alpe d’Huez

Alpe d’Huez is a rewarding and animated feast of the defining and signature Tour de France moments and the stories behind them. It is a smart, imaginative, and engaging profile of “the cathedral of climbs.”

Geraint Thomas and Team Sky ride into Paris on the last stage of the 2018 Tour de France

The Tour According to G

For a GC contender there’s no hiding in the high mountains of the Tour de France, and The Tour According to G hides nothing from its readers. It’s forthcoming, direct, jovial and rousing. It delivers a strong winning performance from the Grand Départ to the Champs-Élysées.

The Tour is Won on the Alpe

Although The Tour is Won on the Alpe doesn’t fulfill its book-flap promise, it still puts in a strong performance, like a dedicated gregario or domestique riding in support of his team leader. It’s a performance worth a top 10 stage placement.

Greg Lemond in the final stage time trial of the 1989 Tour de France

Étape: 20 Great Stages From the Modern Tour de France

Étape is an engrossing celebration of the Tour de France. It reanimates memorable stages and moments, mostly from the late 1980s through 2012, and it’s a master work of cycling history and storytelling.

I feel pretty, Oh, so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and bright, And I pity
Any cyclist who didnt participate with me in July
I feel charming,
Oh, so charming,
Its alarming how charming I feel,
And so pretty
That I hardly can believe Im real.
— The Course That Cannot Be Defeated
📷 : @tschrister
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3x 719 Ride participant and octogenarian Frank Morrey loves him some hills. ❣️ ⛰
And we love him! 😍
📷 : @artisticgoldcreativeconcepts
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The strength and power of FORZA, the essential element of the 719 Ride, means you can ride up 6% to 10% grades, over and over and over and over and over again, as the temperature approaches 100 degrees Fahrenheit, while carrying an invisible baby in the crook of your arm. È una meraviglia! #719ride2022
📷: @artisticgoldcreativeconcepts
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The 719 Ride cycling jersey helps you ride uphill with your head held high and a smile on your face. Its a marvelous thing! #719ride2022
📷: @elevationwheelcompany
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The 719 Ride is satisfactual
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Wonderful feeling, wonderful day.
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The 719 Ride has a distance for anyone and offers a a challenge to everyone. #719ride2022
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Oh, what fun we had! #719Ride2022
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719 Ride FORZA in action.
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📷: @elevationwheelcompany
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The course for the inaugural #719Ride on Tuesday, July 19, 2016 hosted five riders and offered 7,356 of elevation gain.
At that time, the idea was to get as close to 7,190 of elevation as possible.
Blodgett Drive was prominent, but Rossmere Street and Allegheny Drive past the quarry had yet to make their appearances.
Time was spent on the flat of Centennial Boulevard and the final miles were downhill from Marshall Sprague Park all the way back down Woodmen Road back to the starting point at Woodmen Valley Chapel
Oh, how things have changed.
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When one rides up the .719 mile climb on Rossmere Street in 4:03, one wins $71.90 and makes an average 8.9% grade look like a downhill.
FORZA @goldenboygould! Salute! Your prize money is in the mail. Thanks for ripping around The Course That Cannot Be Defeated. So sorry your humanity, notable as it is, still required you to surrender and eventually stop riding. 😉
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Verified Rossmere Street still goes up. It’s ready for you tomorrow.

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