One week we run to the top of Pikes Peak, the next we ride there.

For years, cyclists have dreamed of pedaling up the Pikes Peak Highway to the 14,115-foot summit of America's Mountain. Now they have their opportunity.

Summit Cycling Productions, in cooperation with the City of Colorado Springs, The City of Manitou Springs, the U.S. Forest Service and The Pikes Peak Highway, are proud to introduce the inaugural version of “Assault on the Peak”, a cycling event to the top of Pikes Peak.  This event will be a timed, non-competitive event for the first 1,500 riders wishing to challenge the most famous mountain in America.

It all begins Sunday morning at Memorial Park in Manitou Springs.

And plan to spend some time at the Peak Region Cyclist Bicycle Festival beginning at 10 a.m. at Memorial Park in Manitou Springs. Admission is free.

The show will feature bike shops, bike frame-builders, bike manufacturers from across Colorado, bicycle advocacy groups, trail building groups, bicycle non-profits, anything and everything to do with cycling will be here.

Enjoy good food, good company, great atmosphere, top cycling companies, and an EPIC ride to the top of Pikes Peak!

The Assault is a fully supported event giving a limited number of cyclist the chance to tackle
the hardest climb in North America.  The road is being rented for the day and will be entirely closed to non-event automobiles.
The event is being lengthened.  We have secured the cooperation of Manitou Springs, the Colorado State Highway Patrol and the Colorado Department of Transportation in order to start the event in Memorial Park in the center of Manitou Springs.  Riders will ride through the City of Manitou and then climb a closed lane of US Highway 24 up Ute Pass to the town of Cascade. From there  is approximately  1.5 miles to the original toll gate start.  The event is now 24.5 miles up with a total ascent of over 7,700 vertical feet....and that means 7,700 feet of descending.

Due to the generous sponsorship of Red Noland Cadillac the cost of the event has dropped to $150 and there is now an option to climb to Glen Cove which is below tree line for just $90.  Our great  thanks to Red Noland Cadillac.

Online registration (www.bikereg.com ) continues through Wednesday. For more information on the 2010 Assault on the Peak, visit www.ridepikespeak.com.

 Registration is limited to the first 1,500 participants on a first-come, first-served basis.