Cloud City Wheelers Bicycle Club, Leadville, Colorado

 

Cloud City Wheelers Ride Again!

The Cloud City Wheelers - a bicycle club based at 10,154' in Leadville, Colorado.

Guy on an antique bicycleA local club of male cyclists was formed in Leadville during 1889 and by May of 1893, bicycling had taken its place as a leading sport. In the early years of cycling in Lake County it was a male sport, but the ladies did not allow that haughty attitude to persist for long. By the early nineties a local journalist reported "the cycle craze broke out with something like a fury, affecting all grades and conditions of men and extending in somewhat milder form to the fair sex."

It was further noted that locally there were fives types of cyclists. "The good and the very good, the bad and the very bad, and the incorrigibles. Have compassion for the kindergarten pupils, however, who are doing the best they can and do not deserve to be shot at. . ."

 

Riding the Mineral Belt Trail, Leadville, ColoradoThe Cloud City Wheelers bring back the craze!

A local club of cyclists has formed in Leadville again! The orginal Wheelmen have long since cycled to better rides, but a new version of the bike club has formed.

Join the Wheelers for fun rides, kids events, winter mountain bike races, trail restoration, or a BBQ at the pump track.

 

 

 

Wheelers Propose Off-Road Bicycle Trails to Colorado Mountain College and Lake County! Sweet Single Track On The Way!

Click here to read more.

Click here to download a sweet PDF detailing this exciting proposal. 

 

Sterling on course

Interested in out Winter Mountain Bike Race Series?  Click here for more information.

(Yeah, we're a little crazy here in Leadville. crazy about fun, that is.)

 

Mike on Independence Pass, Colorado

 

 

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