Eric Murphy, Winner of the 2007 Classic Criterium
Professional Category displaying his well earned trophy. 		  Kosta Boda glass sculpture courtesy of Fragile Gifts of Sandy Springs.

• Criterium Overall Purse: $9,000 •

The GreenTour Bicycle Ride
A Trio of Recreational Bike Rides Through Beautiful Sandy Springs
5-Mile Ride, 12-Mile Ride, 30-Mile Ride, and option for a 45-Mile Ride.
First ride starts at 7:45 AM

The Sandy Springs Classic Pro-Am Criterium
A US Cycling Federation Sanctioned Course in the Heart of Sandy Springs
9 Professional and Amateur cycling races – an exciting spectator event.
First race starts at 8:30PM • Team Cyceleworks

The GreenFest
A festive atmosphere of great food, beverage, music featuring
the Daniel Adam Johnson Roda Band (acoustic Brazilian jazz) and
the Cooper Tisdale Group (American blues/rock).
Begins at Noon.

Bicycle Raffle        
CycleWorks has donated a Customized-Fit Trek 1000 Road Bike.
One of the best chances you’ll ever have to win a great bicycle.

The GreenTour promotes a more bicycle and pedestrian-friendly environment in Sandy Springs and hopes to build awareness about environmental and personal health, alternative transportation connectivity to Atlanta, Cobb County, Dekalb County, Gwinnett County and the City of Roswell and other bike and pedestrian paths that connect to schools, parks, business and activity centers.

Food • Fun • Tee-Shirts • Prizes • Music

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City Sandy of Springs Initiates Historic Land Use, Transportation, and Parks Planning Effort

The city of Sandy Springs has initiated a historic planning effort regarding Land Use, Transportation, and Parks . This   first-ever comprehensive   planning effort will guide the actions of the city of Sandy Springs for years to come. Sub-Committees are being formed in the following areas:

  • Land Use
  • Transportation, which includes the development of a comprehensive Bike and Pedestrian Network
  • Parks and Recreation

Read More and view the schedules of the Citizen Advisory Committee and the Parks and Recreational sub-committee by clicking here. As more information becomes available, we will post it on this web site.

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“Communities that are bicycle and pedestrian active are almost always cleaner, greener, more sustainable and healthier.”

Thanks to more than 800 cyclists the combined GreenTour Bicycle Ride(s) and The Classic Criterium Cycling Race(s) have made our event one of the largest and most successful cycling events in the Metro Atlanta and in Georgia. We hope everyone who participated will join us again in 2007 as we move the event into the Springs where we hope to make it a permanent fixture. Stay turned for a specific date.

The GreenTour is the premier event of the Sandy Springs Bicycle & Pedestrian Community Initiative. It’s a bicycle event intended to generate greater awareness about the value of creating a bicycle and pedestrian-friendly environment in Sandy Springs – with connectivity to Atlanta, Cobb County, Dekalb County, Roswell and other bicycle paths that connect to schools, parks, business centers and activity centers.

The Sandy Springs Bicycle & Pedestrian-Friendly Community Initiative strives to:

Support the building of infrastructure and activities that promote fitness
  • Create greater awareness about the benefits of a bicycle & pedestrian-friendly community.
  • Support connectivity to parks, schools, business districts and other destinations.
  • Promote the use of alternative transportation.
  • Promote a healthier environment through support of clean transportation alternatives.
  • Create cycling activities for all levels of cyclists.

“The GreenTour is more than just a bicycle event is part of a journey toward a bicycle and pedestrian-friendly environment, which is just one aspect of a healthy community,” says Ron Comacho, Co-Executive Director. “The new bike and pedestrian initiative will provide transportation choices, that had been largely ignored by local Transportation planners,” adds Bill Cleveland, the other Co-Executive Director.

Like many bike and pedestrian organizations, the Bicycle & Pedestrian-Friendly Community Initiative will be actively promoting the design and implementation of an integrated, comprehensive, and community wide Bike & Pedestrian Network in Sandy Springs with The Green Tour as one catalyst for awareness as well as a fun recreational event.

“Working with cycling oriented businesses and their teams, such as CycleWorks and the CycleWorks Cycling Team, we hope to add a Crit to the mix of the larger GreenTour and Bike-Ped activities in Sandy Springs” says Lisa Wearing, Marketing Advisor to the Sandy Springs Bike-Ped Initiative. Stay tuned for this announcement.

“The type of Transportation System that we build in Sandy Springs has the potential to promote or undermine the health of our community,” adds Alan Bragman, avid cyclist and a local Chiropractor working on the Bike-Ped Initiative.

Recent Centers for Disease Control (CDC) medical research makes a link between the lack of pedestrian and bicycling infrastructure and the promotion of sedentary lifestyle patterns that underpin existing local disease patterns.

Please support The GreenTour and the Sandy Springs Bicycle & Pedestrian-Friendly Community Initiative.