Customer Reviews

Road Biking Colorado's Front Range: A Guide to the Greatest Bike Rides from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins (Road Biking Series)

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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).

lightening quick shipping! the book is great--dialed in useful info to plan short, medium, and long rides. degree of difficulty indicated on the rides seems accurate so far. high marks for the seller and the book. thx

Anyone who is anyone should own this book if they like to ride. Seriously, go out and buy it right now!! I have done most of the rides and loved every single one of them.