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Watch for bicycles on these roads Sunday

By Bill Moss, Published: June 1, 2019

Hundreds of bicyclists will be riding roads during the WNC Flyer Sunday in Henderson and Transylvania counties.

Riders will pedal off from Oskar Blues Brewing Co. in Brevard at 8 a.m. and return to the brewery all day as they complete courses ranging from 30 to 100 miles. The event, capped at 1,000 riders, is sold out, sponsor Blue Ridge Bicycle Club announced.

For the first time, a course takes riders into Laurel Park and Hendersonville, in the area of Jones Gap, Hebron Road, the Hendersonville Country Club, Lake Osceola and Kanuga Lake Road.

Watch out for bikes on these roads: In Transylvania, Everett, Hart, Cascade Lake, Crab Creek, Talley; Henderson County: Pleasant Grove, River, Big Willow, Finley Cove, Finley Street, Echo Lakes Drive, Fairway Drive, Hebron, Lakeside Drive, Old Kanuga, Sugar Hollow, Kanuga Lake, Evans, Big Willow, River, Etowah School, Old Highway 64, McKinney, Brickyard, Holly Springs, Turnpike, Brannon, Ray Hill, Warlick, Banner Farm, Ladson, King, U.S. 64 West, Grove Bridge; Transylvania: Neely, Park Avenue, Parkview Drive, U.S. 276 S., Gallimore, North and South Country Club, Island Ford, Walnut Hollow, Hannah Ford, Calvert, Old Rosman Highway, Middlefork, East Fork, Barclay, Old Hendersonville Highway.