updated May/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.
A fairly convoluted, wordy explanation (but, -hey it works) how these
pages are organized, ie. what makes a pass or a
summit or a shoulder summit is contained in the
