The kind of hunger that you can build up after a couple of days of bike touring is the stuff of legends. I like to joke that I have to count my fingers after I eat in case I need to hack one back up and have it re-attached.

@thedirtyroadsRidesMulti-Day RidesThe Colorado RouteTDR StandardsUniversal More Blog Posts>>Climbing up the Ute Trail out of Salida the sun is relentless and it is the hottest day of my entire tour but after the summer we had it’s really not that bad. On the way...

@thedirtyroadsWhile I have ridden the majority of the Colorado Route before in bits and pieces over the years dating back to my first ever bike tour in 1992, I had never attempted to ride the whole route in one go before until this year. Riding the route all at once...

@thedirtyroadsThe Colorado Route is Colorado’s premier dirty road cycling tour. Coming in at just over one thousand miles the Colorado Route delivers a grand variety of terrain from the populated flatlands of the Front Range to the spectacularly wide open expanses of...