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Does anyone else in the Denver area ride Lookout Mountain regularly? I try and ride it three times a week, winter and summer. A travel brochure lists 4.6 miles with 56 curves and seven hair-pins. Not as many as Deal's Gap, but it's all uphill (2,000 ft elevation gain), and there's few trucks and no cops. If you go up and down, it's 112 curves and 14 hair-pins. Let's ride!

 

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You don't need oxygen, but it is a good workout. You don't have to use the brakes much going up, but coming down, gravity adds a lot of speed. And those switchbacks are truly 15 MPH.

There's a lot of bicyclists who also ride it, so you have to ride in the outer tire track a lot. Going down, those bicyclists are crazy. They do 40 MPH on some curves with those skinny 7/8-inch tires. They are faster than the cars.

Last month, I took some guys from Texas on Lookout Mountain. On the CBR site, they said they were coming to Denver and asked if anyone knew any good roads. One guy went kind of slow because he was always looking over the edge. You do have to watch out for rocks and deer.

 

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Rodogg, next time you visit the relatives, send me a pm. I'll show you some nice backroad twisties. Supposed to be in the 60's next couple days. That'll melt all the snow around here.