by bikefc | Oct 29, 2024 | Bicycle Advocacy, Contributors, More Bikes, Safe Streets, Uncategorized, Worth the Read
A reader and avid cyclist, David Alexander has submitted a poem titled “Ode to a Bike Lane.” In this piece, the David highlights the value of safe and well-designed bike lanes, celebrating the freedom and enjoyment they offer to cyclists. The poem...
by Tim Wooten | Apr 27, 2023 | Bicycle Advocacy, Bicycle Friendly Business, Contributors, More Bikes, Programs, Safe Streets
wGuest Writer – Gordon Hadfield, Hadfield Stieben Doutt, LLC It is terrifying to be hit by a car while riding your bicycle. Even when the physical injuries have healed, the psychological trauma remains. Some common phrases we frequently hear from bicyclists are: “I’m...
by bikefc | Dec 1, 2022 | Active Living, Bicycle Advocacy, Contributors, More Bikes, Programs, Safe Routes to School
Guest Writer – Juliette Rule It started innocently enough for Bike Fort Collins’ resident bike mechanic Alex Hovorka. “My dad never bought me new tubes; he made me patch them,” Hovorka says. Years later, he earnestly patches flats on bikes of all kinds, many of which...
by bikefc | Jun 30, 2022 | Community Rides, Contributors, Events, More Bikes, Programs, Safe Routes to School
Guest Writer – Whitney Allison, Foco Fondo Owner, organizer, the glue, wrangler of Zacks, dreamer. Back in the early days of FoCo Fondo, it wasn’t much more than a glorified group ride created out of self-interest and curiosity of discovering new routes. Seven...
by bikefc | Apr 29, 2022 | Bicycle Advocacy, Bicycle Friendly Business, Contributors, More Bikes, Programs, Safe Streets
Guest Writer – Sara Stieben, Hadfield Stieben Doutt, LLC Did you know that there is a new law in Colorado known as the Colorado Safety Stop law? The law allows for cyclists 15 years and older to treat a stop sign as a yield sign and to treat stop lights as stop...
by bikefc | Feb 23, 2022 | Contributors, More Bikes
Guest Writer – Dr. Ray Black Over the course of Black History Month 2022, we have highlighted a different cyclist of color each week in our small but earnest attempt to increase diversity, equity, and inclusivity in cycling. On the last week of Black History Month, we...
