by Bill Plock | Apr 21, 2024 | Colorado News
By Bill Plock April 21, 2024–Ride the Rockies (RTR) ended for many reasons. Not all of it can be put on in any one thing and the decline started years ago and accelerated rapidly in the last three years. A complex combination of poor management, a difficult...
by Bill Plock | Jan 13, 2023 | Cycling
Ride the Rockies is thrilled to announce its new ride director: Sabra Nagel, who brings with her 13 years of cycling event experience. With a specialization in technical cycling event production that includes charitable, recreational, amateur and competitive cycling...
by Bill Plock | Feb 19, 2022 | Industry News
By Bill Plock “It’s nice to connect to the Front Range and I’m excited for this route” said Jason Carolan of Flexential, the title sponsor of Ride the Rockies at the last night’s energetic route announcement at Audi Denver. For the first time in a few years the route...
by Bill Plock | Feb 15, 2022 | Industry News, 303 travel, Adventure, Touring
By Bill “Knucklehead” Plock This is not the story I thought I would write when I decided to join the “Knuckleheads” bike tour from Naples to Key West Florida. The Knuckleheads are group of men from all over the country connected in various ways to biking....
by Bill Plock | Nov 9, 2021 | General News
By Bill Plock Denver, Nov 8th–Funny how things often come full circle. In 1985 Claire Martin of The Denver Post was riding along a rolling cornfield in Iowa with about 12,000 other bicyclist and had a thought she shared in the book “30 years of Colorado Cycling...
by Bill Plock | Oct 14, 2021 | Community
By Bill Plock June 2021. Almost 20 years ago the Colorado town of Norwood was command central for one of the state’s largest forest fires, the Burn Canyon Fire. Patti Grafmyer, the town administrator recalls Norwood rallying to help the hundreds of firefighters on...
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by Bill Plock | Jun 11, 2021 | Featured
By Becky Furuta: The romance of pedaling the open road is well established: the camaraderie between strangers, the innate introspection, the breaking-down and getting lost and being found again. The lure of escape and the search for transcendence were the auspices...
by Bill Plock | May 4, 2020 | Community, garage talk
Each year riders from all over the country participate in Colorado’s Ride the Rockies and Pedal the Plains. But they won’t be in 2020–like so many events. In this episode of 303 Garage Talks, tour director Deirdre Moynihan shares not only the reasons...
by Bill Plock | Jan 11, 2020 | Featured
The 35th edition of Ride the Rockies starts and stops in Durango with a loop on day one in Durango and a loop on day five in Ridgeway exploring the Uncompahgre Plateau. On the final day riders will tackle one of the most scenic roads in North America as they follow...
by 303cycling | Feb 7, 2019
Crested Butte Join us this year on the 34th Annual Ride The Rockies. It is an epic adventure showcasing colorful Colorado on two wheels. Enjoy the hospitality of Crested Butte, Gunnison, Buena Vista, Snowmass, Carbondale, Hotchkiss and Mt. Crested Butte. ...
