Bicycling Salt Lake City: A Guide to the Area's Best Mountain and Road Bike Rides (Where to Bike) [Paperback]

Gregg Bromka (Author)

Book Description

Series: Where to Bike | Publication Date: May 1, 2007

A guide to 33 of the best mountain and road biking rides in and around Salt Lake City, Utah.

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From the Back Cover

Bicycling Salt Lake City features thirty-three of the finest cycling opportunities in the area, from mountain bike rides in the central Wasatch Range to road bike rides throughout the mountains and valley.

 

Look inside to find:

 

• GPS-compatible 3-D shaded relief maps
• Detailed information about each ride, including directions, distances, elevation gains, traffic conditions, and hazards
• Elevation profiles of each ride with terrain, trail surface, technical difficulty (mountain biking), and margin of comfort (road biking)

About the Author

Gregg Bromka was bitten by the mountain biking bug when he reluctantly rode Moab's Slickrock Trail with his buddies in the mid-1980s. Since then he has developed an obsession with Utah trails and has written more than a half-dozen guidebooks, the latest being Mountain Biking Utah's Wasatch Front and Mountain Biking Park City and Beyond. Road biking completes his love for pedaling two wheels. A transplant from upstate New York and with a degree in geology, Gregg has made Salt Lake City his home for more than twenty years. 

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Falcon; 1st edition (May 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762740965
• ISBN-13: 978-0762740963
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,251,309 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #91 in Books > Travel > United States > States > Utah

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Salt Lake road riding necessity, December 18, 2007

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Kevin Moore "Kevmo" (Salt Lake City, UT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bicycling Salt Lake City: A Guide to the Area's Best Mountain and Road Bike Rides (Where to Bike) (Paperback)

I ride both the road and singletrack. Although Gregg Bromka has written several excellent trail guides for Utah mountain bikers, there has not been a well organized print guide to road rides in Salt Lake envirions prior to this book. The road rides are well chosen and feature excellent descriptions and access instructions. The list does not include all classic local rides but hits most of them with suggestions for add-ons and shortcuts if time is pressing. It is obvius that the author has ridden all of the rides in this book and made careful observations. Of course, these are ultimately suggested routes and I ride a little different route than described in the book for all of these rides but that is the fun of it.

There are little things that frustrate me about the book, most annoying of which is the inclusion of ten mountain bike rides. While the author states that his intention is to provide a well-rounded guide to all cycling in the area, these rides are previously published in his other guides and I cannot help but think they are filler to make the book thick enough in the absence of more road rides to describe. This is unfortunate because there are certainly more road rides in the Park City and Midway/Heber areas as well as the city limits that could have nicely filled out the book and would have been valuable information for the roadies looking for something a little different from the usual SLC rides.

In the end, I have used this book extensively and highly recommend it for the visiting or new roadie in SLC. Even roadie veterans may find some new routes and variations.