Blood Sweat and Gears 2025

Blood, Sweat and Gears is a bike route of 100 miles starting and ending in Valle Crucis. Starts at 730 am.  On June 28, 2025 .The BSG is a challenging to strenuous full English century – 100 mile loop ride starting and ending at the Valle Crucis Elementary School, approximately 5 miles south of Boone, North Carolina. The route roughly circles Boone through the outskirts of Watauga County, the heart of North Carolina’s High Country. The terrain is constantly changing with hills of all lengths and curves too numerous to count. The cumulative climbing elevation is 8,800 feet.