by thedirtyroads | Mar 24, 2021 | Multi-Day Rides, The Colorado Route
There can be too much of a good thing sometimes. Long sunny days are great until you get sunburn, good friends need to leave at some point and free beer is fine until you fall over. In order to provide a “just enough” serving size of the Colrado Route we...
by thedirtyroads | Dec 9, 2018 | The Colorado Route
The Trough Road between Radium and Kremmling is part of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route and when I caught up with some fellow bike tourist I assumed they were on the big tour but they were on their own tour just like me. They had just come from my hometown of...
by thedirtyroads | Nov 16, 2018 | The Colorado Route
Marshall Pass is part of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route and when I saw other cyclist I realized that I hadn’t seen another cyclist since Silt and was all sorts of excited but they had obviously seen a lot of other cyclist and just kept rolling along. I like...
by thedirtyroads | Oct 26, 2018 | The Colorado Route
While 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 has given me a...
by thedirtyroads | Dec 7, 2017 | The Colorado Route
The 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 the high...