3/14/2024 0 Comments Iron horse bike week 2021A toned down 49th edition of the IHBC will now ride on Saturday and Sunday. The COVID-19 pandemic canceled the 2020 edition of the Memorial Day weekend spectacle that is the second-longest continuing cycling event in the United States. While that golden anniversary should have come this weekend, 50 years after bicyclist Tom Mayer first challenged his brother, Jim, in a race between bike and train from Durango to Silverton, it instead will come in 2022 – 50 years after co-founder Ed Zink first helped Tom Mayer put together a 36-rider event as a kick-start to tourism season. (Courtesy photo)Īs soon as the 45th Iron Horse Bicycle Classic finished in 2016, organizers started to think about the 50th. In 2022, the IHBC will celebrate its 50th event. The picture of the cyclists racing the train helped the event skyrocket in popularity after its first year. Elliott is pictured here racing the train ahead of Tom Mayer, the inspiration behind the race, and Ron Moore. Mike Elliott, front, led the peloton up the valley and won the 1972 Iron Horse Bicycle Classic, the first official race.
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