Are you following the adventures of Boulder cyclist, Ryan Van Duzer as he rides the west coast all the way to Cabo?

Why is Ryan doing this?

Fulcrum publishing has just released a new book call Great Road Rides Denver and is currently available at Amazon. Thanks to Fulcrum publishing for sending us a few copies to review which I did.

Thanks to Jay Kenney and Fulcrum Publishing for allowing us to show you the content for Red Rocks Park Loop

Want to learn even more about the book and the author, then check out the book events for the following dates and locations

June 14 at The Tattered Cover, LoDo, at 7:30 pm
June 19 at Barnes and Noble Denver West at 1:00 pm
July 15 at Clear Creek Books in Golden at 6:30 pm

The Review

303Cycling caught up with the promoter of the Hell of the Wolf Ride to talk about their ride. This is one of the earliest Colorado bike tours starting in under a month on April 18th! Are you ready? Next week Tyler Hamilton will provide us with a training plan rides just like this one, stay tuned!

This will be the 8th official running (or riding) of the Hell Of the Wolf Loop (H.O.W.L.) Ride. This year’s fully-supported ride will be a non partisan, non political appreciation ride for Governor Bill Ritter for his many contributions to Colorado including green technology, jobs, healthcare for low income families, making roads safer for cyclists and teaming up with Lance Armstrong to bring professional bike racing back to Colorado in 2011!

This year, past Olympic Medalists will be riding, including Gold Medalist Connie Carpenter-Phinney, Bronze Medalist and first American to win a stage in the Tour de France, Davis Phinney and seven time, Tour de France rider Ron Kiefel. Other cycling legends and celebrities will be among the estimated 1,000 cyclists for the 8th Annual H.O.W.L. ride.

Former three-time Colorado State Cycling Champion Bob Shaver started the ride. He has this to say about the event and changes for this year:

“For the fit cyclist the H.O.W.L. does not present itself as a particularly challenging ride. That has never been its intention but rather a ride to do with friends. We have lots of exciting changes for 2010. The foremost will be many more riders! Because of this we’ve had to make some route changes but we also have much more support in terms of rider safety. We will have police marshalling the intersections so we can ride interrupted through town as we do the “town loop” through Castle Rock.

This year the new route will take us through a scenic residential area to Larkspur. We’ll catch part of Larkspur as we head south to Palmer. From Larkspur the riders encounter rolling hills; a couple of those are pack breakers, with short fun descents. The road flattens at the final descent before Palmer Lake.
Traditionally we would stop at Palmer Lake and wait for stragglers. This year for those of us not in the best of form, we will stop for a well-stocked rest stop.

The story of Ryan riding across America both inspires me into doing a tour again. His journey across the USA has been amazing and in the process he raised $3000 for Community Cycles in Boulder. The DailyCamera reported on his success today and you can also hear what Ryan himself has to say