E-Biking to the Closed Entrance to Mesa Verde National Park
We rode our e-bikes every day while staying at Mesa Verde RV Resort, creating our "special", private bike route! We rode up the highway (US 160) for about half a mile, then down the bank and around a barricade onto the frontage road. From there we rode up to the closed entrance to the National Park (all uphill!). But, it was like my friend Ruth said: "she always wished she could ride bikes always down hill!" With pedal assist, it almost was like that! On the last day before the park opened, here are my stats: average speed: 11.8 maximum speed: 24.1 When we turned around at entrance station, we moved the gear to no assist, as we were going downhill! Hence the 24 mph speed! I went almost all the way down without any pedal assist, only shifting it into pedal assist level 1 just before I had to turn around when the frontage road ended. At that point, the ride up-hill began! When level 1 pedal assist was not ...