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If You Build It, They Will Come

Uhh, guys, I'm over here.image Okay, now look at the camera and get pumped!Processed with VSCOcam with c1 preset Field of Dreams is an outstanding movie. That Kevin Costner guy, yeah, I think he's going to make it in Hollywood.Just like a random baseball field in rural Iowa, if you build it t(he)y will come. That's been the plan at large with #TKAtoZ. Cyclists are located everywhere, e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e, and all the more so in places like Asheville, NC where the national cyclocross championships are taking place this week. So rather than riding around in pocketed factions, I wanted to get people together and share the love of the bike. Pedaling together, meeting new friends, sharing stories and tales about how and why they're here and what they dig about the bicycle. I can't think of any other means that brings people together as much as the love of the bike. Sure golf clubs are spiffy and motor yachts are flashy and computers are neat, but bikes are awesome.Also realizing that people like do(ugh)nuts, I've now hosted four rides from local donut shops in the fair town of Asheville. Hole Doughnuts and Vortex have each seen a heard of cyclists roll in, sip and dine, then roll out the door in bright spandex. These shops have been extremely friendly and accommodating to the clip-clop of cyclists' shoes and enthusiastic morning chatter.image That picture, above, is this morning at Vortex. With 30 people ultimately in attendance today, the pace was friendly, the group fantastic, and smiles were plastered ear to ear. It could be on account of this Coconut Delight...donut ...or maybe all these delicious bad dogs...image ...perhaps the tasty coffee; whatever the case, if you build it (and put it on social media, and tell your friends, and your friends' friends, and then keep blasting the good news of bikes + donuts + old friends + new friends, well by golly, they will come.  THEN we migrate to the course and watch bike racing and cheer and compare the footware of a cyclocross observing crowd. Very New England, brah.image ONE LAST #TKAtoZ RIDE IN ASHEVILLE, GANG:Meet at Vortex Doughnuts tomorrow (Sunday) morning at 8:30am and we'll ride at 9am, next stop, the races. Really hope to see you there!