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One BFC Board Member’s Reflections on Untokening
by Katherine Vega - BFC Board Director [su_button url="https://squareup.com/store/bike-fort-collins" target="blank" background="96d3bd" color="#000000" size="8" center="yes" radius="5" desc="Click Here to Support Bike Fort Collins"]GIVE TODAY[/su_button] There were two things I loved most growing up as a kid in Lincoln Heights, a neighborhood 10 minutes from downtown Los Angeles. The...
Cyclocross is Here!
With summer winding down the road racing season is over which means it's time for cyclocross! Cyclocross racing, or “cross” for short, is one of the best disciplines for spectators. Thanks to generous land owners and hard-working volunteers Fort Collins has a steady stream of races over the next two months. Cross is essentially a hybrid between road and mountain biking. The bikes look like...
Shiny Tape for your Shiny Bike
Here at Bike Fort Collins we take a very broad, long term view of bike safety and how to improve it: we’re more concerned with land use and city planning than bike helmets and safety vests. That work will ultimately provide a safer, more pleasant community for everyone. In the meantime, we’re well aware of the immediate safety concerns that cyclists encounter, so here’s a handy trick to make...
August Letter from the ED – A Big Thanks, and Lots of Fun Volunteer Opportunities
Cityplan Update A few weeks back, we shared a call to action in defense of Cityplan. The weeks leading up to that post and the weeks since have been a blur of activity- conversations with city council, city staff, within our advocacy committee, and coalition partners. We received word late that week that the effort paid off and that the Cityplan project budget has been significantly...
August Featured Bike Friendly Business – Cranked Up Coffee
One of the things Larry Conlon likes best about Fort Collins is the biking culture. Not only that, but people, here, love more than just craft beer—they love their coffee, too. An idea sparked, and Larry came up with a business plan that included biking and cold brew nitro coffee. He uses a front cargo bike to peddle his wares downtown, and sells wholesale to businesses in the...
Action Needed – In Defense of Cityplan
Write city council today at cityleaders@fcgov.com and ask them to support the full Cityplan (see bottom for suggested language) The City of Fort Collins is guided by a principle called the "triple bottom line." TBL is a balancing and integration of social, environmental, and economic health and sustainability. It's a powerful way of looking at community health and values and has a number...
Unicorns and Scorpions: Win Sweet Swag with Fort Collins Bike Share and Kaiser Permanente!
Have you heard?! Fort Collins Bike Share is teaming up with Kaiser Permanente to bring you yet another incentive program to participate in this summer! The Ride All Summer Prize Giveaway program is now in its second month! There are two ways to participate: If you check out one of our bikes anytime between now and Labor Day, you’ll be entered to win our grand prize giveaway!...
July Letter from the ED – Dispatches from Madison
Cool public art in Madison Last week, while most of you and most of the Bike Fort Collins team were here in Northern Colorado enjoying what I'm told was another great Bike to Work Day, I had the honor of joining Mayor Wade Troxell, city manager Darin Atteberry, director of planning, development and transportation Laurie Kadrich, and FC Bikes program manager Tessa Greegor in Madison, WI for the...
July Featured Bike Friendly Business – Gallegos Sanitation, Inc.
Not everyone would consider a sanitation company a good fit for a bike friendly business. However, Gallegos Sanitation (GSI) became a bronze status Bike friendly business in December 2016, due, in part, to the efforts of its Sustainability Coordinator, Becca Walkinshaw. Becca has championed the BFB initiative but she also had many other teammates within GSI who jumped at the...
Local Racing in Full Swing
Local Racing in Full Swing by BFC Board Member Will Hickey Our city is amazing for riding bikes in any capacity, but when it comes to local racing Fort Collins is in a league of its own. From April through October there a grassroots races every week right here in town. Grassroots races are as much community building events as they are competitions. Brand new racers are welcome, there’s no need...