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Foco Fondo Benefits Safe Routes to School
As we initially helped promote entry and training rides for back in April, the Foco Fondo was held yesterday (July 25) for the first time since 2019, due to the pandemic last year. The Foco Fondo is a daring gravel cycling adventure that starts and finishes at New Belgium Brewing. Attracting competitors from around the country, it features a 107-mile, Bite the Bullet open category for cash,...
Fort Collins Launches New e-Bike Share Program
We are super-excited to have bike share (and e-scooter share) back in town after just over a year without the service during the pandemic. The City of Fort Collins selected Spin as a one-stop provider/operator for both e-bike share and e-scooter share service. Spin operates in communities across North America and Europe—and began operations in Fort Collins today (July 26). Bike Fort Collins...
Ride with the Mayor
Bike Fort Collins was thrilled to host our new Mayor, Jeni Arndt on a ride around town yesterday. It was a great opportunity to get to know her, while not only riding past and celebrating some new bicycle infrastructure that is under construction, but also showing-and-sharing with her some improvement opportunities—some of the same ones we’ve either showcased in our Intersection-Facility Focus...
Pilot Program Provides e-Bikes to Low Income Essential Workers
Bike Fort Collins is proud to be one of the partners the City of Fort Collins has engaged with to support a grant it received through the Colorado Energy Office as part of the Can Do Colorado eBike Pilot Program—a program intended to help expand e-bike access in communities across the state while maximizing air quality benefits. Other grant awardees included 4CORE in Durango, Community Cycles in...
Volunteers Needed For Fun August Events
by bikefc | Updated | Aug 10, 2021 As of August 6 and August 10 respectively, the Bohemian Foundation and New Belgium Brewing have made the conscientious and courageous decisions to cancel the Bohemian Light Music Festival and cancel the Tour de Fat this year. While this is certainly disappointing news, we understand their decisions were made out of an abundance of caution over the COVID-10...
Bike Fort Collins Tunes-up Bikes In North Fort Collins
Bike Fort Collins is pleased to have been able to tune-up and fix nearly 100 residents’ bikes from the following mobile home parks in June: Hickory Village, Poudre Valley and Cloverleaf. During the weeks of June 14 and June 21 Bike Fort Collins had mechanics out at Soft Gold Park in North Fort Collins on weekday evenings, as well as all-day each Saturday tuning bikes and fixing flats for those...
Bicycle Film Festival – Together We Cycle
CAN FORT COLLINS BECOME THE AMSTERDAM OF THE U.S.?That is the question we posed this month, as part of Colorado Bike Month and bringing back the Bicycle Film Festival for a second, virtual round. As a starting point to answering the question, we were excited to share and host the feature length documentary, Together We Cycle. Together We Cycle provides an indepth overview of the history of how...
Remington Bike Count Challenge 2021
For the second year running, Bike Fort Collins hosted the Remington Bike Count Challenge. Last year, due to the pandemic, we developed this event in an effort to bring folks "together" in a socially distant capacity on what would have been Bike to Work Day 2020. Our goal was simple, to beat the record for number of cyclists to pass the automated counted located at the corner of Remington and...
More Facility Improvement Opportunities Presented to BAC
BFC was appreciative of the opportunity to present infrastructure/intersection improvement opportunities to the City’s Bicycle Advisory Committee again this month. Unlike our fall 2020 presentation, or our February presentation this year, which primarily featured intersections, the opportunities we showcased in our June presentation included stretches of road or bike lane. Two of the three...
Bike to Work Day 2021
Bike Fort Collins is overjoyed with the outpouring of community and bike fanfare at this year's Bike to Work/Wherever Day! With 51 breakfast stations located throughout the city and even a handful of afternoon stations, we are truly humbled by the generosity and overall community support of our local businesses. We enjoyed sharing a station at the Oak Street Plaza with a variety of downtown...