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 Anna | 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 Anna | 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 Anna | 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...
by bikefc | Dec 29, 2021 | Bicycle Advocacy, Bicycle Friendly Business, Contributors, More Bikes, Programs, Safe Streets
Guest Writer – Gordon Hadfield, Hadfield Stieben Doutt, LLC Happy New Year to all the cyclists! I was going to write about winter riding, but that didn’t make much sense because winter weather never arrived in Northern Colorado (thanks, global warming—just another...
