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SIERRA VISTA — The 28th La Vuelta de Bisbee rides this afternoon with the prologue time trial.
At 4:30 p.m. today in front of the Copper Queen Plaza, each of the more than 200 riders will depart 30 seconds apart from one another, and head up through Tombstone Canyon and Historic Old Bisbee.
The finish line for the 2.8-mile time trial is at the top of the Mule Pass Tunnel.
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Winners in the men’s A professional race and the women’s race will don the yellow jerseys for Saturday morning’s 79.3-mile Sulphur Springs Road Race which will begin at 7 a.m. in front of the Copper Queen Plaza.
Riders will head East on Highway 80, down the Lavendar Pit and around the traffic circle, exiting toward Douglas.
The riders will proceed down the Highway until they reach the Double Adobe-McNeal turnoff and ride to King’s Road which will take them back to Highway 80 between Douglas and the main campus of Cochise College.
The riders will then turn right onto the highway, and the professionals will turn once again on the Double Adobe-McNeal road for a second lap to King’s Highway. The rest of the field will head back into Old Bisbee for the finish at the plaza.
On Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m., the Warren Time Trial will take place. Because of construction in front of City Hall, the finish line will be moved back a mile and a half, reducing the 8.3-mile course to 6.8 miles.
Sunday morning the riders will gather for the final event, the Tombstone road race which starts at 8 a.m.
Again starting in Old Bisbee, the riders will ride in a non-passing parade up Tombstone Canyon before they are turned loose on to Highway 80, this time turning west.
The course leads down Highway 90 heading toward Sierra Vista and hangs a right on Moson Road. Moson leads three miles to Charleston Road where the riders hang a left, cross the San Pedro River and head into and through Tombstone.
Heading back up Highway 80 through St. David, the riders make their final moves before the first of two final climbs, up Mule Pass, through the tunnel and down into Old Bisbee.
The riders ride past the Pit and turn around at the traffic circle. They head back up through Old Bisbee and climb to the top of the tunnel where the finish line awaits them.
Riders should be coming in between 11 a.m. and noon.
