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Q&A with Platinum Bicycle Friendly Business: velofix
velofix of Colorado was recently named a Platinum Bicycle Friendly Business by the League of American Bicyclists. As one of four Platinum awards in Colorado, we talked with Trent, owner in Colorado, to see how they got that designation, and tips on how other businesses in the area can follow suit. How does it feel to have earned Platinum designation? It feels great and honestly a little...
Bike Fort Collins Announces Interim Executive Director
Bike Fort Collins (BFC) continues to evolve as an organization. This past year we’ve increased our efforts supporting transportation equity; continued to educate Poudre School District students; promoted bike share use for adults of all income-levels; and encouraged local business support for their employee and customers' bicycling efforts. When our previous Executive Director...
Valentine’s Day Contest
Love riding your bike? Loving having fun? Loving winning prizes? If you said yes to any of those things, we've got a fun Valentine's Day contest for you! From today until February 14, draw a HEART while riding your bike (using any GPS service, including Strava, Garmin, Map My Ride, etc.) send a screenshot to Bike Fort Collins (info@bikefortcollins.org) and you're entered! Interested in more ways...
Safe Routes to School: Fall Semester Wrap-up
Fall Semester Wrap-up Safe Routes to School programming wrapped up the Fall semester last week at Johnson Elementary School! This semester, SRTS reached 2,000 students at 13 different schools in Fort Collins, and checked 1,282 bikes for any maintenance issues thanks to support from Recycled Cycles, Peloton, Trek, Brave New Wheel, VeloFix, Homeward Alliance Bike Repair Team, Joseph Moore, Stuart...
Safe Routes to School Fuels Learning, Elation, Self-confidence in Local Schools
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 community. For more than 12 years, Bike Fort Collins (BFC) has partnered with Poudre School District (PSD) and the City of Fort...
2018 Election: County Commissioners and State Transportation Propositions
This Year Election Day is Tuesday November 6! County clerk's throughout the state have already begun mailing out ballots. While Coloradans can register and vote through Election Day, October 29 is the last day to register and receive a mail-in ballot. As your local bicycling nonprofit, Bike Fort Collins feels informed voters are an important mechanism to support safe enjoyable...
Safe Routes to School: Always (Safely) Rolling
The Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Program isn't just busy in the school year, the summer is also a crazy time of year as we strive to get more kids on bikes safely! Read on to learn more about all we were up to this summer. Summer School: Preschool Safe Routes This summer SRTS provided safety lessons to preschoolers in the Fullana program at Bauder and Beattie elementary schools....
We are excited to announce our new logo
Just like a bike that needs tuning, sometimes an organization needs one too. As Bike Fort Collins looks to grow and provide even more opportunities to get more people on bikes, we thought it was time to spruce up our image a bit. Why this design? Thanks to local graphic designer Jarad Heintzelman’s creative gears, this logo was created to embody what Bike Fort Collins is: fun, modern and...
Stacy Sebeczek: From Bike Library to Pace Bike Share
Stacy Sebeczek loves costumes. She also loves bikes. And she really loves biking in costumes. Stacy is one of those people who makes you want to bike. Her energy is contagious, her ideas inspiring and her passion for this community of Fort Collins infectious. While her road to Local Market Manager at Zagster was a ride she didn’t intentionally mean to start, once she set the pedals in motion,...
Fort Collins Bike Share is Now Pace
Bike Sharing in Fort Collins will be easier than ever before thanks to Pace, the nationwide dockless bike sharing service for smart cities and colleges. Originally launched in 2016 as an evolution of the Fort Collins Bike Library, the Fort Collins Bike Share has expanded and improved to become Pace Fort Collins - a modern, dockless bike sharing platform. Pace, a product of Zagster, is now live...