Pike's Peak is an annual time trial race that takes place in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, within Pike National Forest. The track measures 12.42 miles (19.99 km) and has 156 turns, climbs 4,720 ft (1,440 m) on grades averaging 7% from the start at Mile 7 on Pikes Peak Highway, and finishes at 14,110 ft (4,300 m) above sea level. It once consisted of both gravel and paved sections, but the highway is fully paved as of 2011.
It has taken place since 1916, making it the second oldest motorsport event in the United States of America. It is currently contested by a variety of classes of cars, trucks, motorcycles and quads. There are often numerous new classes tested each year, and often discarded. Lately, there have been several categories of electric vehicles, including motorcycles, as displayed in some of my previous posts on the latter. On average there are 150 competitors in multiple categories, but in the case of motorcycles we have.....
- Motorcycle 1205 CC
- Motorcycle 750 CC
- Motorcycle 450 CC
- Motorcycle 250 CC
- Motorcycle Vintage
- Motorcycle Sidecar
- Exhibition Powersports (Electric)
- Heavy Weight Supermoto
- Exhibition Powersports-Z (Electric)
- Quad Modified
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| The 'Track' |
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| There are multiple car categories |
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| One of 156 curves |
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| The Motorcycle Division has a side-car category |
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| One of the Electric bikes |
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| This gives you a good idea about the nature of the track |
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| Crashes do happen and they're not pretty |
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| Super Turbo rig |
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| A modified Quad |
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| More track action |
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| Carlin Dunne won it all on the 'Lightning', a very fast, super-sport electric bike |
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| The end! |
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