Comments on: Birmingham to Chattanooga – well, almost!

By: Clinton

Clinton — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:17:58 +0000

Forgot to add: take plenty of food and drink, the commerce on this highway was killed by the newer interstates in a lot of areas.

By: Clinton

Clinton — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:15:17 +0000

Highway 11 goes from New Orleans to Maine, and I highly recommend most of it for riding. I have done Chatta to Knoxville on it, and plan to do the same as Brian to Chatta (but will skip Mentone). Most towns like Fort Payne have parallel roads so you avoid the pickup mirrors, which are the most dangerous feature of Hwy 11. Lot a chip seal and breakage on the edges, but not really a lot of traffic Thanks for the great map!

By: Adam Smith

Adam Smith — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:44:07 +0000

That is crazy Toone!!! Freakin awesome, but crazy. Man, I just need to get on my bike and go like that. You da man!

By: kartoone

kartoone — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:47:51 +0000

Thanks Jacob – I had debated about whether or not to climb up to Mentone knowing that it might keep me from making it the whole way – but I really wanted to do the climb out of Fort Payne (the one that we went down on one of our training rides during last year’s camp) — essentially reversing that route back to Dan’s house. I came down the mountain just past Dan’s house on the climb that we had used for hill intervals. That whole stretch (the climb, the rolling hills and the descent down from Dan’s house) was my favorite part of the ride so I’m glad I did it!

By: jacob

jacob — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:57:08 +0000

wow, that’s impressive brian. if you hadn’t made the detour up to mentone you’d have made it. incredible.

for reference, i rode 35 miles with about 2,000′ of climbing on sunday, and still felt like it was all i could do after saturday!