I noticed the Knoxville News-Sentinel<\/i> had at least three cycling-related stories over the past few days. That’s pretty good publicity.<\/p>\n A judge in Cumberland Gap, TN, has turned his bicycle collection into the Little Congress Bicycle Museum. If I ever get to Cumberland Gap again (it’s been many years since I’ve been there) this stop would be interesting to see.<\/li>\n <\/p>\n KNS<\/em> reporter describes her quest to become a cyclist and complete the English Mountain Challenge.<\/p>\n Bicycles bring out the best in people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I like to think so.\n<\/li>\n <\/p>\n Details a Detroit, MI, cycling club’s training foray into East Tennessee.<\/p>\n “Blount County and the surrounding foothills of the Smokies offers some of the best cycling in the country,” Alexander said. “It’s a wonderful combination of rural roads, little traffic and beautiful scenery – although experiencing the scenery from a bicycle is a lot different from experiencing it from a car.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n From what I’ve seen, Western North Carolina is probably a better cycling tourism destination than this side of the mountains–they’ve got more rural roads and more mountains. But as a whole this region offers great and challenging terrain for cycling. I noticed the Knoxville News-Sentinel had at least three cycling-related stories over the past few days. That’s pretty good publicity. “Bicycle museum’s curator wheels and deals for history“ A judge in Cumberland Gap, TN, has turned his bicycle collection into the Little Congress Bicycle Museum. If I ever get to Cumberland Gap again (it’s been […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nOn Saturday, when I was on the Blue Ridge Parkway<\/a>, I met briefly with a few other cyclists who were vacationing from Ontario, Canada. It reminded me how lucky I am to have this scenery in my back yard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"