Due to the great and fabulous weather in Alabama you can cycle nearly all year around and long-distance cycling is a favored activity for the motivated extreme biker. Crossing Alabama by bicycle can be either very easy or extremely difficult. Consider if you were to start at the Mississippi Border on Highway 98 and ride down hill into Mobile AL and then cross the bay and ride to Highway 59 to Highway 90 into Floridas Panhandle, you could be in Pensacola sooner than you might think. The entire route is only 50 miles plus 10-more to Pensacola, FL and you could do it in about 3-4 hours or 5 even with traffic in Mobile. Piece of cake and perhaps this is indeed a good warm up for the enthusiast who wants to try their skills in long-distance bike riding? Another good ride across Alabama may take you a very long day or even a couple or even three days if you took it easy. That ride is from Meridian, MS to Columbus, GA passing thru Demopolis, AL; Selma, AL, Uniontown, AL; Montgomery, AL; Tuskegee, AL and then onto Phenix City, AL, which is a hop skip and a jump across the river from Columbus, GA. The ride is nearly 200 miles across. It is mostly flat, but not completely and very scenic. Perhaps you will consider these routes for your long-distance cycling in Alabama this year? Alabama is the perfect place to ride and there are so many beautiful bike-riding routes to choose from. Think on this in 2006. |
