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♦ Steve Atkins wrote up a ride report on his blog about his Bartlett Lake 200k experience. Check it out HERE!

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♦ I travel with an S&S coupled Ti bike. I get asked regularly how I pack it. I've put together a set of instructions with photos on how I pack it. Find it HERE if you're interested in seeing it.

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Upcoming Brevets in the Four Corner States

ARIZONA 2025:

UTAH:

See: http://www.saltlakerandos.org 

COLORADO:

See:  http://www.rmccrides.com/brevets.htm

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This series of events is intended as a "warm" season series for the desert. The mountains can be extremely cold during overnight and during early/late riding, so let's just stay where the weather is nice. This series has replaced the previous "Around the Bend" events due to traffic increases along the old route. Google now routes drivers to Rocky Point, MX on the roads we once traveled. So, here are our new offerings.

The basis of the routes is the Desert Loop 400k. On the 400k, we will circumvent the entire "Valley of the Sun" while visiting some of the most popular cycling areas. We will be circling roughly 5 million people, so there will inevitably be a few cars. But, the routes have been selected to try to miss an much traffic as possible. The route starts and finishes in Chandler and travels in a counter-clockwise direction.

Services are located at regular intervals along the route. Towns and cities visited: Chandler, Queen Creek, Mesa, Fountain Hills, Scottsdale, Carefree, Cave Creek, Peoria, Sun Cities, Buckeye, Estrella, Avondale, Laveen and possibly Phoenix somewhere in there!

Terrain: The route follows the Gila, Salt and Agua Fria River Valleys as it winds between several mountain ranges. While this route is relatively flat by Arizona brevet standards, with 6600 feet of total climbing, it differs from flat routes in other parts of the country in that it offers continually changing views of mountains in all directions along the entire course.

The 300k, 200k & 125k events start & finish at the same location. They also ride together from the start until they need to split to maintain their specified distances.

For a visual of the 4 routes overlaid, HERE is a Collection of the rides.

Each is color coded so that you can see where they overlap and diverge. More details, and registration procedures, for each event is found at the individual liks below.

The wild horses in the photo below are an iconic centerpiece of the Lower Salt River. They can be spotted in numerous locations along a roughly 15 mile stratch of the Forest Service land in that area. More info on the horses may be found HERE.

125k details may be found HERE
200k details may be found HERE
300k details may be found HERE
400k details may be found HERE