Road Biking Florida: A Guide To The Greatest Bike Rides In Florida [Paperback]

40 featured road bike rides, from easy rambles to long, difficult challenge rides make this a great book for any cyclist interested in seeing the sunshine state.Many have dreamed of seeing Florida at a slower pace than through the windshield of a car whizzing along the interstate, and yet few have done so. Road Biking Florida provides an exquisite tour of the Sunshine State, offering bike routes for every taste and moment. Each ridewhether along highways or quiet rural lanes, from short 25-mile rambles to 100-mile classicshas been ridden and reviewed personally by local author Rick Sapp. He highlights not only the unique features of the road but also the people, the ecology, and the history of the areas covered. The authors passion truly brings alive those halcyon rides under hammocks of oak draped with Spanish moss, past whitetail deer munching on acorns, along stretches of white sand beaches, and through wide expanses of the Everglades and swamp.Rick Sapp grew up biking the steepest hill in Florida and decorating his J.C. Higgins one-speed with cr?pe 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. He has published a dozen books, including Camping Florida (forthcoming, FalconGuides) and many magazine articles.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 Floridas 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. Look iló0