Muddturtle3 said:
Beautiful scenery....but how are the roads? I'd love to take my bike on a cross country ride....
The roads are pretty good. C-DOT does a pretty good job taking care of potholes and what not...but it really varies from stretch to stretch...there are a lot of rural dirt driveways connecting to roads, so you do get a fair amount of gravel in corners, especially early in the spring...some roads are better than others, some are a bit washboarded on uphill corners especially...and well, route 6 ( the usual way to get up to the south end of Peak to Peak) is closed (in part) due to a landslide...so sometimes they are really bad

...the paricular roads from Saturday, Golden Gate was nice and gravel free (i think it's got a fairly new surface)...Peak to Peak was OK...some patched blacktop, a fair amounth of wash boards and some tar snakes, but not bad at all really, hardly worth mentioning...the end of 72 was freshly surfaced though, and there was just a little bit of loose gravel at the extreme outside of lanes, but nothing to worry about...the roads in the park are amazingly well groomed considering parts of them are under snow for half of the year (but there is a lot of traffic so the pace is slow)...Berthoud pass was fine on the west side, the east side they were resurfacing in areas, so it was down to dirt in some stretches, and other were ground down with the familiar checkerboad groves that make the front end wallow a bit, but is really not bad at all...
In general they are much better than the roads where I grew up back in upstate NY.
asp125 said:
Nice pics in your album. I like the composition on this one of Berthoud.
If you're looking for fall colors you should ride Squaw Pass to Mt Evans, or Hoosier Pass behind Breckenridge when the leaves turn.
Thanks, I'm definitely going have to check them out, Squaw pass especially...