Crested Butte Bike Week

One of the best bike festivals in the country!
Bike week is now a multi-day celebration of all things mountain bike in the Gunnison Valley. We still have the big thigh burner of a singletrack race, the Fat Tire 40, but now CB Bike Week is more of a celebration of how mountain biking defines our community in the summer. Join us for clinics, a film festival, the Chainless Downhill World Championships, good beer, and a great party.

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True story...back in the mid 80's, my bonfire just below the pass saved a young couple from death. We camped out (my parents and I) just below the pass overnight. A huge snow storm (maybe a blizzard) covered the pass to the point of being impassable. That day a young couple got stuck up on the pass. By nightfall they were still stranded. Desperate no doubt, as they were all alone in a blizzard up on top of a pass. That night I had made a huge bonfire. The couple saw a small light from up on the pass, and made their way towards it. When they made it to our camp, they had to sleep under my step-dicks mitsubishi montero for the remainder of the night. Thankfully, we were able to drive them and us off of the mountain to safety in the morning. I will never forget that moment of luck. My first and only time to the Fat Tire Bike Week. True story.