Tour de Trump/Tour DuPont routes?

This is not a proper answer. Its more a collection of notes gleaned from different sources. Feel free to add more if you find other things.

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1989

The first Tour de Trump, a 10-day, 837-mile bicycle race through five Eastern states http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/15/sports/dispute-mars-end-of-the-tour-de-trump.html

Other site says 825 miles total, or 782 miles. 10 stages in all.

Prologue Albany, MAY 5, 1989. A 2 mile time trial to establish a race leader

Stage 1 - May 6th. First stage was in Albany NY to New Paltz (110 miles), on May 5. This segment is remembered for a hellishly difficult climb called Devil's Kitchen. Officially named Platte Cove Road but dubbed Devil's Kitchen for a nearby mountain hollow, the climb was a 15-degree grade in West Saugerties that ascended from 300 feet to 1,840 feet above sea level in a span of two miles. This part of the route is https://ridewithgps.com/routes/2746243

Stage 2 - May 7th between New York and Allentown on Sunday, May 7. 123-mile route ran due west from NY through New Jersey, over rolling hills and into a head wind, before ending in Allentown, Pa.

Stage 3 May 9th. GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, AND WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA

Stage 4 May 10th. BETWEEN FRONT ROYAL AND CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA 107-miles

Stage 5 or Stage 6 14.5km ITT in Richmond

Stage 5 or Stage 6 - MISSING

Stage 7 team time trial in Richmond, Va

Stage 8 68-mile circuit race in Arlington, Va

Stage 9 - May 13th Baltimore criterium, a 30-lap, 51 miles

Stage 10 - May 14th The 1989 Tour de Trump ended with an ITT in Atlantic City on a Sunday, just before the Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino. 38.6km The 24-mile time-trial course started in front of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, continued a mile down the boardwalk, took a hard left through a slum area, passed in front of the Trump Castle and took a right over the Brigantine Bridge. From that point the course became a maze of turns through Brigantine Island. From http://forum.cyclingnews.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=30224

Three "non-Trumpian" towns through which the race passed: New Paltz (N.Y.) and Front Royal (Va.) and Allentown (Pa.) Also, the first six stages of the Tour passed through the Catskills, the Poconos, Pennsylvania Dutch country and the Blue Ridge Mountains and had the feeling of a European road race—rolling hills, open countryside, winding roads. From http://www.si.com/vault/1989/05/22/119927/the-wheels-of-fortune-the-tour-de-trump-billionaire-donald-trumps-bike-race-through-the-american-countryside-was-a-smashing-success

Here's the only "map" I could find, in two pieces.

From "Spy Magazine" and by "SYDNEY SCHUSTER" original link at https://sydneyschuster.wordpress.com/2016/03/03/run-amok-mapping-the-tour-de-trumps-mishaps-foul-ups-and-egregious-exaggerations/

One other reference to a map for this year:

    Article "What's in a Name? It's Tour de Trump"
    By MALCOLM MORAN, Special to The New York Times
    Published: May 5, 1989, map of Tour de Trump route (pg. D23) 

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1990 Tour De Trump

Suggested plan in 1989 was "Begin the Tour in Boston, steer it down the coast, to Washington...Philadelphia...Detroit...Chicago—go west, young man!—to San Francisco, before concluding the show in L.A. " but this was written in 1989. Probably a grand plan that was changed a lot.

The plan had changed by February

Trump joined Delaware officials in Wilmington to discuss details of the race, in its second year. This year's event will begin in Wilmington May 4 and conclude more than 1,000 miles later in Boston on May 13.

13 stages in this year.

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1991 Tour Du Pont

Race was organised/directed by a group/company called "Medalist Sports Inc." of Richmond, Va, according to http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1990-11-16/sports/1990320048_1_tour-du-pont-tour-de-trump-medalist-sports

Eileen Webber, a spokeswoman for Du Pont, said: "We just made the announcement of our sponsorship of the race and, as yet, we haven't had a chance to negotiate with any cities. I'm sure most the cities involved the last two years will be high on the list for the race next May." Same source.

So the first Du Pont one was probably pretty similar to the earlier two courses.

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1992

Nothing found

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1993

Nothing found

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1994

Nothing found

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1995

Nothing found

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1996 Final Year.

Won by Lance Armstrong, 12 day event.

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Other info

A random image found

Are you still looking for stage maps? I have the Tour DuPont program books from 1993, 1995 & 1996. They include a map and a profile of each stage. Also have Lance Armstrong's signature in the 1995 book.

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edit - Here's a first snap of the overall maps for the three years.

Apologies for the quality - I've just snapped them with a phone in the meantime, and the glossy paper makes it hard to avoid reflections. Better images will be coming, will scan the lot with a flatbed scanner.

1993:

1995:

1996:

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EDIT Here's the complete 1993 magazine: https://criggie.org.nz/bikes/stackexchange/1993-dupont.pdf Its 73 Mbytes.

I know this thread is super old but the 1990 version ran through my home town of Saugerties NY, ran through West Saugerties and up Devils Kitchen into Cairo. Platte Clove/ Devils Kitchen is a very steep incline and my dad was telling me that many of the bicyclist had to get off their bikes cause they couldnt make it up it (this road is closed during the winter because its cut into the mountains)

The 1990 edition had a stage in/around Bethlehem, PA. I don't know exact date or route but do know it did at least two loops, probably three, around the city. Route climbed The Hill at Lehigh University. I believe it finished on New Street.

I have a shirt still from when I lived in Harrisonburg VA and a stage ended there. Can't remember the year. I remember being excited about seeing someone but it might have been Greg not Lance. I don't know what happened to pics I took at finish line.

Late to the party, but I worked on the 1990 Tour de Trump. I remember a number of the finish line locations.

I also worked on the West Virginia Mountain Classic, which like Tour DuPont, tried to fill the void after Trump dropped their sponsorship. So I may mix up the locations between the races.

WVMC was produced by the same group as the CoreStates US Pro Championship. Dave Chauner, former Olympic cyclist who raced in Europe was involved in producing the races.

Tour DuPont was produced by a different group (perhaps the same group as Tour de Trump) and I didn't work on that event. I think Tour de Trump, West Virginia Mountain Classic, and the Core States USPro Championships were all sanctioned by USA Cycling, not United States Cycling Foundation (USCF). If I remember it was a professional vs. amateur issue.

Tour de Trump

1. It started with a time trial at the Hotel DuPont in Wilmington, DE.
2. Wilmington, DE to Baltimore, MD Inner Harbor.
3. Missing stages...
4. Stage Finish in Charlottesville, VA
5. Missing stages...
6. Stage Finish in Harrisburg, PA
7. There was a stage or time trial based around the Trexlertown Velodrome.
8. Circuit Race or stage finish in Bethlehem PA
9. Transport to NYC
10. Central Park Criterium, NYC.
11. Stage Finish in Albany, NY.
12. Transport to Western MA, probably Amherst.
13. Finish line was in Boston, MA. I think it was on the West side of the Boston Commons.

Either Tour de Trump, or West Virginia Mountain Classic:

1. Morgantown WV. (Might have been the starting stage for WVMC)
2. Greenbriar Hotel (Also may have been WVMC)
3. A couple ski resorts in WV. I remember one stage start line was moved from the mountain top where the previous day finished to the valley for because of an overnight snowstorm.

Someone posted a video of the 1990 Tour de Trump. I haven't watched it, it's 83 minutes. <https.www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4ufHfCZGN4>

This article has a photo of the 1989 race program cover with all the stages listed. <www.cyclingnews.com/features/when-president-trump-inaugurated-the-1989-tour-de-trump/>

Some photos and background, more about the business of putting together a race. Mentions some locations like the 1989 race finishing on the Atlantic City Boardwalk in front of the Trump casino. <www.businessinsider.com/tour-de-trump-bike-race-atlantic-city-history-photos>