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Beyond the 719 Ride

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IS THE THE EXTRA STUFF AND THE ADD-ONS

Vincenzo Nibali in the 2014 Tour de France

The Race

The Race harnesses the sensations of the best ride of your life and the thrill of the most electrifying race you’ve ever watched. It’s not a novel about cycling. It IS cycling!

A Race for Madmen

A Race for Madmen gives context and color to the legendary stories that have made it into our collective cycling consciousness. It’s like a well-executed team time trial — graceful, fluid and a beautiful thing to experience.

Fausto Coppi and Jean Robic ride up Alpe d'Huez in the 1952 Tour de France

Pedalare! Pedalare!

Pedalare! Pedalare! is light on tales of racing, heavy on the analysis of Italian society, generous with introductions to notable Italian cyclists and absorbed with The Golden Age of Italian Cycling. It performs well, deserves respect and is worth a read.

It’s All About the Bike

A devotional to one of humankind’s greatest inventions, It’s All About the Bike celebrates the tradition, lore and beauty of bicycles. It delivers a mature winning performance that can be appreciated for its simplicity, elegance and manner.

Alpe d’Huez

Alpe d’Huez is a rewarding and animated feast of the defining and signature Tour de France moments and the stories behind them. It is a smart, imaginative, and engaging profile of “the cathedral of climbs.”

Geraint Thomas and Team Sky ride into Paris on the last stage of the 2018 Tour de France

The Tour According to G

For a GC contender there’s no hiding in the high mountains of the Tour de France, and The Tour According to G hides nothing from its readers. It’s forthcoming, direct, jovial and rousing. It delivers a strong winning performance from the Grand Départ to the Champs-Élysées.

The Tour is Won on the Alpe

Although The Tour is Won on the Alpe doesn’t fulfill its book-flap promise, it still puts in a strong performance, like a dedicated gregario or domestique riding in support of his team leader. It’s a performance worth a top 10 stage placement.

Greg Lemond in the final stage time trial of the 1989 Tour de France

Étape: 20 Great Stages From the Modern Tour de France

Étape is an engrossing celebration of the Tour de France. It reanimates memorable stages and moments, mostly from the late 1980s through 2012, and it’s a master work of cycling history and storytelling.

For a month-to-month list of Colorado cycling events and century rides, the Bicycle Colorado events calendar is a comprehensive resource. And for Colorado bike races, the USA Cycling and BikeReg event calendars are worth having in your saddle bag, if you race with a saddle bag.

Is #GratitudeFriday a thing? Here’s wishing a belated and heartfelt 🧡 thanks 🙏🏻 to:

Every course constructed is imbued with a purpose by its creator. The purpose of The Course That Cannot Be Defeated is to elevate you. To take you where you want to go.

Three thousand. Six thousand. Nine thousand feet. It will lift you up. It will deliver accomplishment and achievement, but it will never give an inch.

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All smiles all the time for @adamashor, even on The Course That Cannot Be Defeated 🙂😀😁😎

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#FatTire speed at the #719Ride with @jimmydot

Fat is fast when jersey and helmet colors match. 😀

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“Now, here is a game that they like,”
Said the cat.
“They like to RIDE BIKES,”
Said the Cat in the Hat . . .

Then Sally and I
Saw them ride up a hill.
We saw those two Things
Ride with strong will.

FORZA! FORZA!
Up! Up! And away!
Up the hill they rode
That July Saturday.

Thing Two and Thing One!
They rode up! They rode down!
On the seat of their bikes
They rode all around.

Around and around
They rode through the town
Wearing orange, not brown
And they didn’t slow down.

It was great!
It was grand!
This ride that they rode.
We know it is true
We saw it firsthand.

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Now 🤙🏼 and then 👍🏼 — 2021 and 2020 — 3x #719Ride participant @bigburlay 🔥

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@carekberg didn’t make it out to the #719Ride last weekend, but she was with us in spirit, as she was hating her life in #CrestedButte. 😁

72-year old @almarshall7 on his way to a five lap PR on The Course That Cannot Be Defeated — after breaking his hip, pelvis and scapula in January.

W Al! FORZA! 🔥

2018: 6 hr 24 min
2019: 6 hr 48 min
2020: 6 hr 41 min
2021: 6 hr 19 min

📸: @vladidrago

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The jersey says it all.

RIDE
The Course That Cannot Be Defeated

Thanks to all who did.

Without you, the #719Ride is just an idea.

With you, it’s a THING! A #ColoradoSprings Original

🚴🏻‍♂️: @cadet.stimpy,
📸: @vladidrago

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W Vlad!

“719 ride was dune and dusted this Saturday again big success in 2021. Forza 719 will be back in 2022 for Lap record I try but still short 1min 30sec sitting at 3rd place 🥉 with 47:45” - @vladidrago

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Meet Steve, Jane and Alex Fredrick — Purveyors of Fine Ice Pops.

The Fredricks have been adding ice pop flavor to the #719Ride for a couple of years.

This year they handed out 216, minus a couple they ate themselves. They intend to buy more for next year because you made them feel very appreciated.

Thank you for that.

And thank you Fredricks. 😍

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Not ordinary. EXTRAordinary!

Eric Sexton completes one #719Ride lap of The Course That Cannot Be Defeated.

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