Road Biking™ Florida A Guide To The Greatest Bike Rides In Florida

by Sapp, Rick

• ISBN13: 9780762744480
• ISBN10: 0762744480
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-24
• Publisher: Falcon Guides

Summary

Road Biking Florida features forty-two carefully designed rides throughout the state, from Navarre Beach, Okefenokee, and Atlantic Beach in the north to Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades, and the Keys in the south, and Tampa Bay and the Cape Canaveral seashore in between. Highlighting not only the unique features of the road but also the people, the ecology, and the history of the areas covered, local cyclist Rick Sapp provides a sampling of Florida's diverse offerings. Enjoy halcyon rides under hammocks of oak draped with Spanish moss as well as edgy rides so uptown that your eyes may blur at the endless series of stops and turns.

Author Biography

Rick Sapp grew up biking the steepest hill in Florida and decorating his J.C. Higgins one-speed with crepe paper streamers for elementary school bike races. Since then, he has covered the state, from Pensacola to Key West, and broadened his enthusiasm for all-things-outdoors to kayaks and canoes, fishing, hunting, hiking, sailing and bird watching.



An accomplished writer - "Writing for a living is the only thing I have ever wanted to do," he says - Rick has authored a dozen books and literally hundreds of magazine articles. As always, his subjects are travel, the outdoors and people who are making the most of their opportunities.



Rick now lives in Gainesville, Florida.

Excerpts

“In this book you will find rides of every sort. Rambles that are merely warm-ups for experienced cyclists and true classics that will challenge any rider’s endurance—and will. Several pedals are scenic from the moment you mount up to the moment you return the bike to the rack—while a couple are designed to show a side of Florida that may be a bit unsettling. Several rides travel through country so lonely that farmers and ranchers will look up from their work as you wheel past, children dizzy on tire swings will stare, and families shelling butter beans in the porch swing will smile and wave. A few rides are so uptown that your eyes may blur at the endless series of stops and turns.”

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Excerpted from Road Biking Florida: A Guide to the Greatest Bike Rides in Florida by Rick Sapp
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