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BAKERS DOZEN RUN – DAY 6

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Day 6 is the long day. A 250 mile ride from the Blue Ridge mountains to the  Allegheny mountains on the border of the Virginias. There will be roads but probably not good ones. There will be dirt and ruts, and none of it will be flat. Two routes divide the teams but both travel …

BAKERS DOZEN RUN – DAY 5

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There is always at least one day of this race that tests the riders more than the rest. Not really a fun day but more of an experience to be conquered. The forecast for the area was flash flooding and thunderstorms. The storms were still a couple hours to the west at the start so …

BAKERS DOZEN RUN – DAY 3

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An endurance race is usually punctuated with long bouts of difficulty. Weather, planning, mechanical durability, mental stress, preparedness, luck, all factor into successfully completing the journey. Winning, even in a such a low stakes venture as a moped race with no cash value and very little bragging rights, is still a towering achievement of grit. …

BAKERS DOZEN RUN – DAY 2

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Day 2 is listed as the fun day of the race. It’s a short, 50 mile hop from the campsite in Tellico Plains to Deals Gap, North Carolina where the teams can relax and enjoy the local sights. It is not an easy ride though. That fifty mile stretch contains 4,500ft of elevation to climb …

MAITLAND KELLY – BAKERS DOZEN 2021

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I chatted with Maitland Kelly of the Creatures of the Loin about the upcoming Baker’s Dozen moped race around the Appalachia’s. Maitland has been carrying the torch of the original Pinball Run and is in the sixth year of the new event (during 2020 there was no actual event due to the pandemic). I caught …