Tour de Little France
Thursday, July 20th, 2006 Saturday, 22 July, 9 a.m.
Brewerton Plaza
I-81, exit 31, West on Bartell Rd
[ just 25 min, and $5 worth of gas, from downtown Syracuse. ]
Weather - sunny and seasonal.
31, 47 and 65 mile options in generally rolling terrain.
n.b. - the map on the web site does not show these shorter options but the maps available
at the start will have them denoted.
n.b.2 - the RL will be doing a slightly modified [for the better, of course] 62 mile version of the
long loop. With regrouping - at avg speed of 16-18 mph.
Back in the day, one option of the Peter Scott Swamp rides out of Phoenix went to Little France.
I believe that ride still goes there but in 1996 a ride was designed to be ridden in conjunction with Le Tour and looped through this hamlet two, three, four times.
Traditionally, many riders wore yellow.
Now, by not-so-popular demand the ride has returned to it’s proper temporal place in the schedule.
The ride roams along the Oneida River, through gently rolling southern Oswego County dropping down to Oneida Lake before returning to Brewerton for a flavor-of-the-month, mango-raspberry shake.
So, dig out that yellow jersey, set your DVR to record Floyd’s victory, and join us on the road.