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Up for the Chino Grinder? ‘I’m bringing IVs and a different bike’

By Ed Wisneski Excerpts from the Daily Courier article originally Published: April 30, 2015 6:01 a.m. CHINO VALLEY, Arizona – The inaugural 106-mile Chino Grinder cycling race last year from Old Home Manor Park in Chino Valley to Elk Ridge

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The Ride Across Arizona – Topock Az to Blue Az (615 miles)

By Harry Johnson   A few months ago, Craig Swetel, the co-founder/director (along with his wife Minnie) of the Chino Grinder Race, posted an event on the Riding AZ Gravel site that he called the “Ride Across Arizona”.  Basically, Craig

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Arizona’s Original Gravel Grinder? The 1921 Tucson-Phoenix Bicycle Race

Arizona Rebublic Headline: Tucson-Phoenix Bicycle Race ‘To Be Real Try-Out The Tucson to Phoenix bicycle race to be held May 1, 1921. The Tucson-Phoenix Bicycle Race was held on hilly roads of the old Borderland Highway over a course of

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