A eight day trip to Colorado's Pike Peak from Southern Indiana. Taking nothing but back roads and off the beaten path routes. Average speed will be well under 45 MPH. The adventure will be shared by a small group of men, some on motorcycles of various kinds.
Pikes Peak 1440-168 News & Info
The bikes for Pikes Peak
While the route and plan for the ride had been continually adjusted / improved, these changes were small and didn’t effect the general strategy...
Pikes Peak Recap – winning while failing
Cut to the chase. We didn’t make it all the way to Pikes Peak. The plan was to ride 1500ish miles in 7 days...
Follow along with live GPS tracking for the Pikes Peak Ride
We have a Garmin Inreach device with us on our ride.
The Inreach is a satellite communicator. It does a few things for us:
Provides...
Final Route Plan To Pikes Peak
This is it... the actual, final, official, finished, route... at least until we start riding and need to change it.
All the way - final
DAY...
Strategy for the Pikes Peak 1440 -168
Any great Adventure starts with an idea... this idea has been brewing for some time now, and you can read about how it...
What are we thinking? The idea behind the Pikes Peak 1440 – 168
A group of six men were sitting at a picnic table, taking a break from hiking. We were pondering life, purpose, possessions, and personal...
Pikes Peak – experiencing the indescribable
My personal experience with Pikes Peak started in 1983 when I was 12 and we visited on a summer vacation. I've returned two more...
Furkot.com: Online Mapping Tool – Quick Review for Adventure Trip Planning
Planning the trip is, in many ways, the best part of the experience. Researching, mapping, looking for short-cuts, or in our case interesting "long-cuts"...
