Links to other information about the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route

General Information Web Sites
Adventure Cycling Association's Great Divide Page These are the guys that designed the route, so I guess that makes them something of an authority on it.  Still, there's not a tremendous amount of information here.  There is a nice synopsis of the route here, and this is where you can go to order the maps online.  They don't seem to sell the guidebook though.  See the next link.
Amazon.com:  Cycling the Great Divide: From Canada to Mexico on America's Premier Long Distance Mountain Bike Route
by Michael McCoy		 This is the guidebook for the GDMBR.  Written by Mike McCoy of the Adventure Cycling Assoc.

One comment on the writing  -- when he uses the word 'steep', he means 'extremely steep', and when he says 'extremely steep', he means 'don't even try to ride your bike up this with a fully loaded bike'. A 'respectable climb' is really a lung-buster. Just expect everything to be a little harder than he makes it sound, and then you wont feel angry because it is not as easy as he makes it out to be. I think he must have either rode it without being fully loaded, or he is a very strong man!
"Kites.org" Great Divide web page I'm not sure what the GDMBR has to do with kites, but here it is at kites.org!  This is where the great divide forum is located -- a message board that is potentially very useful, but currently underused.  Perhaps with me linking to it, it will get some more traffic.    Besides the forum, there appears to be not much else here besides a few low-quality pictures.

Personal Websites - many of these include day-by-day accounts of their ride
Steve and Shelley Casagrande and their "Plan B" webpage These are a couple of very friendly and interesting people who Christy and met while we were cycling the GDMBR.  They were riding north and we were riding south, and our paths crossed in Montana.  Their "Plan A" was to live in many different places by getting transferred through their work, but when that stopped working out for them they opted for Plan B -- bicycle touring around the world.   Part of this included the Great Divide, and they have some excellent stories and pictures on their website to prove it!
Chris from New Zealand Here is another fellow rider that we met along our trip in fall '02.  I was not fond of him, but I think his web site is very good.  There are plenty of good quality pictures.  Many are actually pictures of the road, so you get a good idea of what kind of terrain you will encounter along the way.  The narrative is fairly entertaining compared to many I have seen.
Jay Rolls Some really incredible photos here.  Not much else here though.
Ruedi Anneler I like this webpage - nice soundtrack!!  Ruedi was a member of a large group that rode the Divide in '99.  Ruedi traveled all the way from Switzerland to take part in the expedition, which included 12 people.  There is some good information here,  great pictures.  My favourite thing here is the "Wear and Tear" section of the page that details all of the parts that the group destroyed.   Don't let this scare you though -- Christy and I broke far fewer things on our trip, proportionally.  
Kent Johnson Another rider of the '99 group. I found this website a bit cumbersome, with all of its frames and pop-up windows, and many dead links.   There's a very "riding for charity" slant to this page too -- I'm not sure how I feel about that.   Seems to me that riding the Great Divide should be something done for one's self. but if he raised money for a good cause then I applaud him.   Kent's page has journals from each day of riding, plenty of pictures, and even some super high-tech maps of each day of riding.. I guess he carried GPS.
Paul Smee's "Divide Ride Dogs hit Montana - 1997" Here is another day-by-day account of the trail.
Erin Garvey's Story According to this website, Erin is the first woman to have completed the route.  There is a pretty long story here about the route, with some pictures too.
John Hazen's "A Trip Down the Great Divide" Website Lots of nice pictures on this webpage, but information seems to be patchy.
Sam I can't even find Sam's last name on his webpage.  He only has a little bit about the great divide.  He was riding it in '99 and got Giardia, even though he says he filters his water.   So.... be careful!

Articles Written about the Great Divide Trail
The Great Divide Route
Mountain Biking in New Mexico		 At GORP.com
John Stamstad: A Record-Setting Ride
on the Continental Divide		 This mountain bike endurance racer did the great divide in 18 hours and 5 days.   That's nuts.  
Mountain Zone's article A few pages worth of text on a mountain-bike web site.
"Visit Montana" Great Divide article This Montana tourism website has a short bit about the trail.

The Continental Divide Trail (the hiking route, not the mountain bike route)
The Continental Divide Trail Alliance I guess this would be the difinitive source of information for the CDT
GORP CDT Article One thing that might be useful -- this page lists many (all?) of the national forests and parks that the trail passes through (most of these are the same for the GDMBR).  So if you want to request information from them ahead of time for some reason, this might help you.

Other Stuff -- Not directly related to the Great Divide, but may be of interest.
The Rough Stuff Fellowship Cyclists who want to get away from roads and cycle tracks.  Links to lots of great Euro-trails.   But North America As Well.
Mountain Bike Touring Packing List

Roderick Young's Packing List

Judy Colwell's Bike Touring Packing List (PDF)

 You might want to look at these to make sure that you are not forgetting anything.   Hopefully between them all, they have got all of the bases covered.
Patrick Jennings An interesting web page that talks about his cycling trip through China.  This is at least as freaky as cycling the great divide, so it may interest you.