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Spring Safe Routes to School Season in High Gear

by bikefc | Mar 24, 2023 | More Bikes, Programs, Safe Routes to School, Safe Streets

After what seems like an especially long, cold winter and with spring finally beginning to show itself, it is also a sign for when our Safe Routes to School programming shifts into high gear. Excitedly, we have already conducted some sessions and have a number of...

An ‘Inside Look’ with BFC’s Resident Bike Mechanic

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...

Wish for Wheels FoCo Provides Equal Opportunity for Bicycling

by bikefc | Nov 22, 2022 | Bicycle Advocacy, More Bikes, Programs, Safe Routes to School

If there’s one thing Harris Elementary School Principal Dr. Norma Huerta-Kelley knows, it’s that talent is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not.  So, as much as she can believe all kids need opportunities to find out what interests them, they don’t all get it....

Nearly 300 Bikes Go To Students in 3rd Year of Wish for Wheels FoCo

by Tim Wooten | Nov 22, 2022 | More Bikes, Programs, Safe Routes to School

Earlier this fall, Bike Fort Collins announced another joint effort with fellow nonprofit and Denver-based, Wish for Wheels to bring a new bike and helmet to every second grader in each of Poudre School District’s (PSD) five (5) Title 1 schools. Now in its third year,...

SRTS Fuels Learning, Elation, Self-confidence in Local Schools

by bikefc | Nov 21, 2022 | Programs, Safe Routes to School, Safe Streets

A bike is often a kid’s first taste of freedom. Go farther. Go faster. Go with friends. Just getting to go is at least half the fun. When you live in one of the nation’s most bicycle-friendly cities, having a bike and riding it is very much about belonging to your...

Hundreds of Students Rise to the Challenge

by bikefc | Nov 14, 2022 | More Bikes, Programs, Safe Routes to School

As we first introduced in spring of 2021 and continued last fall, as an augmentation to our Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programming, we hosted another Walk/Bike-to-School Challenge this October for students in area PSD schools to see how many days they could walk or...
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