Alpine Loop with Panniers?
12-13-11, 10:31 AM
#1
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 293
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 4 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Alpine Loop with Panniers?
I have asked a couple of other questions about this tour on here, but here's the background: I'll be touring in Colorado this summer on a Raleigh Sojourn, probably with 700x40 or 45 tires. Is riding the alpine loop near Silverton (Cinnamon and Engineer passes) a bad idea with a 4-pannier setup? There are a few journals on crazyguyonabike of this route, but all of them are credit card touring. If you have ridden over either of those passes (especially Engineer; it looks worse in pictures), I'd appreciate your thoughts on the viability of using panniers, or if you think I should just stick to the smoother roads.
12-13-11, 12:59 PM
#2
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 39,221
Mentioned: 211 Post(s)
Tagged: 1 Thread(s)
Quoted: 18404 Post(s)
Liked 15,496 Times
in
7,318 Posts
People have done the GDMRB with four panniers. E.g.,
https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/p..._id=66753&v=49
https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/p..._id=66753&v=49
