Road Biking™ Utah: A Guide To The State's Best Bike Rides (Road Biking Series)

This is a good, general guide book for overall road cycling in Utah. It's a good introduction. It does lack depth, & it's difficult to gauge the elevation profile, but the narrative explains each route in good detail. I rode a dozen of these routes in Oct, 2013, & I supplemented the routes with Internet searches.

This book is fine for day rides. I was looking for longer (4-7 day) loops and did not find them. If I had been able to see the table of contents, I would not have purchased this book. It is not a bad product, it's just not what I was looking for.

Bought this book in anticipation of an upcoming trip to Utah. Was extremely disappointed to discover that it lacks any elevation profiles or even total vertical for the listed rides -- just provides min and max elevation. For some rides one may be able to just subtract these numbers, but obviously for any ride with rolling terrain this will seriously underestimate the amount of climbing - a particular problem for those coming to Utah from coastal areas who are not acclimated to Utah's elevation. This makes is difficult, if not impossible, to make informed decisions about route choices without consulting other sources or tracing out a ride in Google Earth. The author also addresses elevation grades in generic descriptive terms, but provides no actual grade percentages. I didn't think anyone would publish a book of this type in 2010 without including GPS-generated elevation profiles, which at least allow the reader to estimate grades and total vertical IF the text fails to provide those specifics. The author is listed as a "former" Utah resident. This leads me to think that he may not have ridden these routes since GPS bike computers became standard fare and that information about road conditions and traffic is therefore likely to be out of date as well.