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Three days starting out in the high 30s, low 40s, with enough duds to stay warm. Prophotog Jim Harris wasn't selling many pix because everyone looked the same for three days, wearing all the warm clothes in the kit bag. This is the best of Jim's three pix.

Finally, the weather warmed and we rode a bit faster. Jim panned this one; trees blurred in the background.

Team Downing and singles Dan and Janet Edgerton riding in high cotton, chasing down the rest of the peloton after a personal tour of the Jackson NC court house. Also by Jim.

Team Biddison leads the paceline toward Edenton. We had three tandems and four plus singles taking pulls. Snapped by Janet with a view from the back.

Here's a typical evening venue, Tent City, Roanoke Rapids, with a band playing, riders lounging around listening or out of sight asleep in their tents.

There's a lounger now. Janet, not a jazz fan. lounges at her tent rather than the bandstand.

More lounging. The Edgertons, ridebuds from Raleigh, on the "porch" in front of our tent; Wild Turkey never more than an armlength away.

Dan breaking camp in Tent City, Edenton, while Stoker Jeanne looks on. Experienced backpackers and cyclists, the Edgertons see no reason to join the 5 AM risers just to ride 50 or 60 miles.

Teams Downing, Biddison, and Archer on the front steps of the Perquimans County Courthouse in historic Hertford NC. The latter two teams are members of the RATS .

People In Tight Shorts, the TarPITS, from Henderson-Oxford fell by the wayside during CNC. Too much Wild Turkey? Here's the two survivors, Tommy May and Bill Harshbarger on the courthouse steps.

The Chain Ring of Fools, the CNC riding contingent of the Carolina Tarwheels, are the partyingest, dancingest, friendliest group of riders imaginable.

Here are The Chain Ring of Fools at the end of CNC.

The Wisconsin Cheese Heads! OK, so you think this was a gag to wear the cheese heads for a few miles, eh? No, no, ya betcha not! The whole week! Nary a mile without the Cheese Head "helmets". A man and his mother! No greater love hath no mother.

Why can't a possum cross the road? Suspicion confirmed! CUI (Crossing Under the Influence).