CRESTED BUTTE - Glo Cunningham’s first attempt to ride Pearl Pass did not begin well. “I had a three-speed and two of my three speeds broke on my way up the hill out of town,” the 61-year-old cyclist ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Crested Butte and Gunnison Valley are recognized as one of the best places in the country to mountain bike — and for sound reason. In the heart of the Elk ...
The 31st annual Crested Butte Bike Week gets underway today with Alison Gannett’s Rippin’ Chix Mountain Bike Camps for women ($35 per session; $95 for the singletrack skills workshop) and a 6 p.m.
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Recognized as a mecca of mountain biking, Crested Butte is also a pioneer of fat biking. Fat bikes use oversized tires to boost stability and traction while ...
There’s a reason Crested Butte consistently tops bike bucket lists. Set among the Elk Mountains—some of Colorado’s most iconic and picturesque—the town is surrounded by endless dirt and paved roads ...
Mountain bikes were originally and affectionately known in the mid-1970s as “Crested Butte klunkers,” one-speed, 35-pound hunks of metal that locals had Frankensteined out of Schwinn frames and ...