All of the Grand Tours (Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España) are in Europe. Washington, NH Mauna Kea, HI Kings Canyon NP, CA Whitney Portal, CA (center).Ĭlimbing hills and mountains in the United States is certainly different from cycling in places like France and Italy where there is such a long history of cycling. Left to right - Ron Hawks, Leon Matz and Bruce Pauly. John Summerson’s Top 100 is found on PJAMM’s John Summerson Climb Page and John’s list of the dates and climbs for Editions 1 and 2 of The Complete Guide to Climbing (by Bike). PJAMM’s original Top 100 used and matched John’s, but we have added to ours over the years. John Summerson ( The Complete Guide to Climbing ) is included as honorable mention because of his pioneering and invaluable contributions to climbing by bike in the US. If you have, or are in the process of, completing the 100 list, please email us at. The members on this list have completed the hardest 100 bike climbs in the United States. From the US Top Climbs Page you can access material for all of the greatest road bike climbs in this country and sort by hardest, longest, highest, most elevation gained, etc.
PJAMM Cycling has traveled the United States many times to personally document every top climb in the country, including the US Top 100.