The brochure for the Great Arizona Bike Adventure described the agenda for the first two days as follows: Head into the Black Mountains, and cruise into the old mining town of Oatman. Take care to not run into any burros! Exchange one saddle for another and take a horseback ride.

Day two: Continue pedaling on the longest currently used stretch of Route 66. Stop and take a tour at the Grand Canyon Caverns, the largest dry caverns in the United States.

Oatman began 0ver 100 years ago as a mining tent camp and quickly became a flourishing gold-mining center. In 1915, two miners struck a $10 million gold find, and within a year, the town's population grew to more than 3,500.

Oatman was named in honor of Olive Oatman, who was kidnapped as a young girl by Mojave Indians and later rescued in 1857 near the current site of the town. Oatman was served by a narrow gauge rail line between 1903 and 1905 that ran 17 miles to the Colorado river near Needles, California.

With the gold rush of 1849, thousands of people sought routes to California, publicizing the area in an unprecedented way. The west was being opened and from trails such as the Santa Fe Trail, Jedediah Smith’s route across the Mojave Desert to San Bernardino and Beale’s Wagon Road across New Mexico and Arizona a transportation corridor began to emerge. The railroads would follow this corridor a few years later further establishing routes west that would someday become a part of Route 66. The railroad also provided new routes for wagon travel, and wagons increasingly followed alongside the tracks.

We've all heard the term "SAG"... But what does it mean? Where and how was it derived?

1963-- Times, June 5/7--
"When, later, Selaru had gear trouble they both gave up the struggle for the solace of the sag wagon".

9/30/07 Day 1: Laughlin, NV to Kingman, AZ miles 30.4 max speed 10.3 average speed 3% average grade 12% max grade Trip Alt 4,510 feet Max Elevation 3,552 feet 5 hours 7 minutes 100 degrees.

10/1/7 Day 2: Kingman to Seligman 93.53 miles 28 max speed 12.7 average speed 2% average grade 8% max grade Trip Alt 3,214 feet Max Elevation 5,475 feet Total Elevation 7,725 7 hours 21 minutes Jerry got his first flat.: