Category: Racing
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2015 a year to remember
topocreator.com map showing 30,000 miles of riding in 2015. 23 states and 203 counties covered in 2015. Click to enlarge. Every January I look forward to writing this blog post with a summary of all the statistics, data, and maps from the previous year’s racing. This year’s summary took a bit longer because I wanted…
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Six Gap 2X
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brian Toone (@kartoone76) I have missed Six Gap the past few years, so I was excited when the opportunity to ride it came up at the last minute. I decided to make it an extra epic adventure this year by getting up at 1:30AM, driving 4…
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Six Gap
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brian Toone (@kartoone76) I’m really excited about a last minute opportunity that has opened up for me to race Six Gap on Sunday. I won’t be able to make it up for the criterium, but I’ll be gunning for the fastest combined time on Hog Pen…
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Race Across America 2015
I’m so excited to be racing the Race Across America this summer. I created a separate blog for all of my RAAM posts, and “Cycling Adventures” blog will remain idle until the race is over. Here is a link to the RAAM blog where I will be posting all things cycling since everything I’m doing…
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The Inaugural Birmingham Baker’s Dozen
Eddie Fryer and a host of volunteers put on an amazing event today as a fund-raiser for the Alabama NICA high school cycling league. I helped scout out the route with Mark Fisher, and it turned out to be pretty much perfect for this type of event. Below, I’ve linked to all the videos I…
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Birmingham Baker’s Dozen – potential climbs
We’re currently investigating a potential route for the Birmingham Baker’s Dozen. This route is looking more and more like the final route so I went ahead and created the map and stats for all the climbs. We explored this route on Sunday, and I made youtube videos of all the climbs. Lots of random conservations…
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2014 Season Summary
An epic season I’ve been on many rides and raced in many races I’d classify as “epic”, but this is probably the first season I’d classify as “epic”. Lots of epic rides and races, but also one epic crash completely changed the course of my season. I’m super thankful to be able to write this…
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Oak Ass 100 Miles of Awesome
Kyle Taylor and I at the Ada Overlook to show my hometown on our Friday pre-ride just before running into Ty Magner. (click to enlarge) Last year I was very sentimental after winning the inaugural Oak Ass 100 mile mountain bike race at the place where it all started. 25 years earlier, me and my…
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Fool’s Gold 2014
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brian Toone (@kartoone76) Race Summary 10th place in the men’s open category, 12th place overall with two very fast singlespeeders (Gordon Wadsworth and AJ Linnell) finishing ahead of me. It would have been three singlespeeders finishing ahead of me, except Bob Moss got a flat mid-race.…
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Alabama Road Race State Championship
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brian Toone (@kartoone76) Pro/1/2 podium – Left to right – Said Assali (Shama Cycles), Me (Friends of the Great Smokies), and David Potter (Infinity Racing/Tom Williams BMW-Mini). I’m super happy to take the win today in the Alabama state road race in Elkmont up near the…