18 Hours of Fruita was a killer mountain bike endurance race just over the Utah/Colorado border at Highline Lake State Park. After competing with friends from Team Lung Butter, we came in 7th place out of twelve multi-person coed teams. You can read a trip report and see a ton of pictures from the May…
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18 Hours of Fruita mountain bike race
18 Hours of Fruita is a mountain bike endurance race that is both a competitive event and a fun party in one. 2010 is the sixth year of the race and the course this time around was lengthened to around seven miles as it winds around Highline Lake just north of Loma, Colorado. Although located…
Mountain biking Fruita’s Kessel Run (video)
As a continuation of yesterday’s post about mountain biking in Fruita, Colorado, here is a helmet-cam video of what we all considered to be the highlight of the entire trip. Kessel Run. Located in the Bookcliffs area of Fruita on 18-Road, Kessel Run is a rush. Although it’s not technically difficult, it still forces you to hone in on your bike-handling skills on countless twists and turns through a banked creek bed
Mountain biking Fruita, Colorado
Okay, so mountain biking in Fruita, Colorado has nothing to do with Utah, but the town is just over the border, and the landscape is very Utah-esque. Therefore, riding in Fruita is like riding in Utah if you ignore that “Welcome to Colorful Colorado” sign at the state line. But why travel so far to…
Bike rental: $45. Memorizing your credit-card number: expensive!
The day after wrecking my husband’s bike, I walk into Over the Edge Sports bike shop in Fruita to pick up my rental, thinking I’ll be renting some crappy old hard tail. No. There it is, a Rocky Mountain full suspension with disc brakes. It’s all shiny and cute and most importantly dark green with pretty maple leaves painted on the frame. Immediately I fall in love with it, almost like my crush on Christian Slater in Robin Hood Prince of