Road Biking Colorado’s Front Range: A Guide to the Greatest Bike Rides from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins (Road Biking Series)
Posted by: Mr.Cycling in Road Bikes
Customer Review: pretty good
This book contains a pretty good selection of bike rides around the front range, with detailed directions/mileage/descriptions.
It offers ideas for rides not usually suggested for road riders.
However, the reason that most of the rides are not normally done by a lot of road riders is that a lot of the rides suggested contain long stretches of dirt roads and, having just done one of the rides today, feel that dirt can be actually kinda scary to go down on skinny tires. The author does give some hints to riding on dirt, though.
The ride descriptions often contain interesting extra information about the area. In addition to these descriptions, I also wish that the author had included some more objective information about the hardness of the rides–for example, giving hardest/average grades of climbs instead of saying ‘this climb will haunt you in your sleep for weeks to come!’
But generally, a nicely done guide for those living in the Front Range. If you live in Boulder and don’t like dirt, maybe look for another supplementary book (the really little black and white one is not bad).
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