updated Jan/2012
Choose
an area of interest from above
to access pages about cycling passes. Both paved and
MTB, recognized and unrecognized
summits are included. The Colorado section has the
most entries.
But in first place this site would like to be about the joy of bicycling. So here an essay by a former president of the Denver
Bicycle Touring Club about bicycles and the people who ride them,
redistributed with permission.
Wheelmen
Also, two short travelogues of three day
weekend tours over a few passes covered in these
pages :
The Wild
Kingdom, goes over the following passes in
Colorado: Pearl, Ohio, Cumberland and Taylor
Passes.
The three
day day ride goes over Berthoud Pass and the
the Trail Ridge Road Passes (also in Colorado).
For more narratives about longer cycling tours - with
and without mountains - see the links in the blue line on top.
How these
pages are organized, ie. what makes a pass or a summit or a shoulder summit is defined in the
