Tag: trinidad

  • Small Town America at the Heart of Gravel Racing? The Rad Dirt in Trinidad Shows Us Why

    Submitted by Bill Plock on October 5th, 2021

    If the heart of gravel racing is the wild west of cycling – where the rules are few and weirdness is welcomed instead of scrutinized – small town America is its soul.

    The lure of gravel racing is in the long, off-road adventure. It’s tricky trails and hellacious hills and mud so thick it’s like riding through peanut butter and rolling roads with expansive views. It’s dust and limestone chunks and pea gravel that bury your tires like quicksand.  Read more

    • Gravel, Heating up in Trinidad, PX 160 Doubled Riders from Last Year

      Submitted by Bill Plock on May 27th, 2021

      We had amazing growth and are happy to announce that we doubled the number of entries from last year. We also saw more participants in the160 KM distance than ever before, and a record number of female riders.  Read more

      • Colorado’s Next Big Gravel Race, the ‘Rad Dirt Fest in Maybe Colorado’s Next Big Boom Town–Trinidad?

        Submitted by Bill Plock on April 5th, 2021

        The time capsule of Trinidad and the surrounding Spanish Peaks makes for the perfect back drop for what might become Colorado’s newest bucket list gravel bike and trail run event—Life Time’s ‘Rad Dirt Fest.

        The city of Trinidad, nestled at the base of Colorado’s newest state park, Fishers Peak, located on the North side of Raton Pass, will host this event in early October. Trinidad, one of Colorado’s oldest and most preserved cities still flourishes with about 10,000 people but it feels like it hasn’t changed much since its heyday in the early 1900’s.

        But it has changed–tons. As in tons and tons of coal that used to roll through here after being mined near the roads the ‘Rad Dirt Fest follows. Thousands of miners and their families lived in the Spanish Peaks area northwest of town leaving hundreds of miles of smooth gravel roads to play on a hundred years later. Read more

        • Trinidad the Next Moab or Fruita?? Rob Quinn Thinks So

          Submitted by Bill Plock on August 13th, 2019

          The Colorado State Lottery, The Trust for Public Land and The Nature Conservancy, who sealed the deal on a $25.4 million purchase for The Crazy French Ranch that includes the 9,630 foot-high iconic Fisher’s Peak situated right in back of town and ironically Read more

          • Pony Xpress Gravel 160

            Submitted by 303cycling on December 19th, 2018

            Trinidad 160K/70K gravel grinder   Come discover the challenge’s Pony Express riders faced in the 1860’s. These earliest American racers speed across remote, desolate regions of America. They had to combine speed, endurance, and mental toughness just to stay alive.Read More

            • 90k/160k Pony Xpress Gravel

              Submitted by 303cycling on January 12th, 2018

              Trinidad   Come discover the challenge’s Pony Express riders faced in the 1860’s. These earliest American racers speed across remote, desolate regions of America. They had to combine speed, endurance, and mental toughness just to stay alive. While at theirRead More