Thanks to BikeDenver for the story

Recently I spoke to the folks at Bcycle in Boulder but haven't been able to craft up the full details yet so instead of waiting on me to complete the story check out the write up at Bike Denver on the Denver Bike Sharing Launch.

What details we do have...

• Program should launch in late April with 500 bikes and 50 stations
• Stations are in a 5 square mile radius in Denver
• Denver Bike Share is running the Denver Bcycle Program
• See a map where the bike stations are located in Denver

Want to learn more?

Check out this very informative and long video on bcycle on Fearless TV. There was also another Video on Denver Bike Sharing

From Trips for Kids Website
Trips for Kids BOULDER – Launching Summer 2010!

Our connection to Boulder is well established. We’ve been rolling and having fun riding with children in and around Boulder each and every year since our inaugural season in 2004. We know the kids. We know the youth agency staffers (many bike nuts themselves). We love Boulder! Thus, we are inspired and excited to create TFK Boulder for them and other underserved youngsters in Boulder County.

Photo Credit: Trips For Kids Denver

A few years ago, we started seriously chewing on the TFK Boulder idea. “Will it fly?” We asked our Boulder friends and youth agency staffers. The PG answer, in general, was a sarcastic, “Are you kidding me? This is Boulder.” True, true, TFK Boulder seemed like a no brainer, but last year as the economy tanked, we called off the TFKB dogs. Then our motivation and belief in this new endeavor percolated again over coffee last fall on a cold, snowy morning in Boulder with a local mountain biker and homebuilder, Tom Nasky. At that meeting we decided to team up with Tom and other like-minded Boulderites to establish TFK Boulder, giving children without means, in this bicycle-crazed town, the opportunity to ride, like the rest of them.

And here we are…TFK Boulder is a go! It’s a go people! Let’s kick this thing off right in Boulder with a proper party April 10th at the Boulder Velodrome

Many thanks to CSU Cycling President Caley Fretz for reporting on this seasons first weekend below!

Photo Credit Caley Fretz

The first races of the season are always a crapshoot. Nobody knows what kind of form their legs hold, who else is going to be on or off their game, or even who’s going to show up. So when a team’s first few races go as well as it did for the CSU Rams Cycling team this past weekend, it’s particularly encouraging.

Races opened up on Saturday at the Denver University City Park Crit, a triangular loop complete with three roundabouts and a nasty little chicane. Not an ideal course for brand new racers, as much of the Men’s C and Women’s B fields were. But the Rams were ready- this wasn’t their first rodeo after all. Thanks to some pre-season team practice crits, the new Ram racers weren’t quite as new as everyone else, and it showed. In the first four laps, a field of 60 in the C’s was whittled down to 30, and all but one CSU rider (who got caught up in a nasty crash) made the selection. A few laps later another selection was made, this time in the form of a breakaway of 8 heading off the front. Four of the eight were CSU.

The first March Practice Criterium is in the books. I went out to check out the "A Race". It was a good size field and by the time I got there a break was off the front. Here are a few pictures I took.

Here is a video that was sent to us of the finish of the "B Race". Watch for the crash about 5 seconds in. Ouch!!!

The show took place at Indy Ink in Denver - a super cool shop that designs and prints their own t-shirts. Last Friday night it was transformed into a gallery opening (as is the case most First Fridays) and race headquarters for the start and finish of an alleycat.

The f/STOPS show was curated by Broox Pulford. The show featured a variety of photos dedicated to the image of the bicycle, from a picture of Lance Armstrong mountain biking to an artful black and white developed on real film. The 20 plus artists and the alleycat drew quite a crowd that ebbed and flowed throughout the evening.

Photo credit Lisa Fisher-Wade

GoBoulder is looking for you... or a friend you may know, that person who rides their bike not just for fitness but everywhere, to get groceries, ride to the dentist, ride to the movies even if that might be a date. If you are that person or you know this person then be sure to go to GOBoulder and nominate this person by March 12th with the winner announced March 19th. As a winner you will be featured on GO Boulder’s official Walk & Bike Month Web page and in GO Boulder’s "On the GO" newsletter. They also will serve as "Commuter of the Year" ambassadors who will make a few appearances encouraging others to consider walking, biking and transit instead of driving for getting to work, errands, school, shopping, entertainment, etc.

Take the Canyons Survey

And Please be sure to mention 303cycling as your primary sources of cycling news in the survey!

At Boulder county's last Motorist-Cyclist Working Group meeting to address the tensions between drivers and cyclists, we formed an education and outreach sub-group. This sub-group and all the people who are assisting in these efforts have been hard at work developing ideas and strategies for reaching out to your interest groups and the general public. In order to learn more about canyon usage and how people who use the canyons get their information, amongst other topics, we developed a survey with the help and leadership of TDA - Thomas Dooley Advertising. In order to strengthen our education and outreach efforts, please take the survey and forward it along to your family, friends, and the mailing lists that you may have at your fingertips. The sub-group and the County would certainly appreciate it. The more people who take the survey, the clearer that we can get with the education and outreach efforts for this year and upcoming years. There are some wonderful ideas floating in the group, and we want to be sure that we hit the nail on the head when finalizing and distributing the materials.
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REGISTRATION FOR THE KHMTT SERIES HAS BEEN SUSPENDED DUE TO THE EXTREMELY HEAVY LOAD ON OUR SYSTEM.

Registration is being reconciled and will remain closed. An announcement will be made on March 8 (Monday) as to when any remaining start times will become available.

• If you have a category listed next to your name on the published start list, your registration and payment were completed.
• If you are on the start list, but there is no category next to it, we have recorded the start time that you have chosen, and will work towards a system for you to finalize your registration/payment.
• If you were not able to choose a start time, we have suspended registration and will resume at a later time to be announced on Monday, March 8th.

If you were not able to choose a start time, we have suspended registration and will resume at a later time to be announced on Monday, March 8th.

Photo from everymantri.com

Lance Armstrong tweeted yesterday
"I hear my good friend and Colorado Governor Bill Ritter had a bike crash and broke some ribs. Gov, be careful!! Get well soon."

And BikeDenver reports on Ritter's bike crash, apparently he was riding with others when his front tire caught of edge of the cyclist in front of him. The result is some road rash and broken ribs. Get well Gov.

One of his riding buddies who was on the ride with him at the time was quoted saying, "He rides a road bike," Dreyer said. "And may need to be riding a newer road bike after today."

Any bike shops want to jump to this opportunity to fit the gov with a new bike?

This important announcement came out yesterday from my Community Cycles source. There is also an Letter to the Editor in the Daily Camera today on this topic.

The Community Cycles advocacy committee has been monitoring the discussions of the Boulder County Subdivision Paving Group. This group is working with the county to decide what to do about deteriorating subdivision roads in the county and who will pay to repave them. Many of these roads are very local - not through roads- and simply access houses in the various subdivisions in the county. The county does repairs and snow removal on these roads, but does not have the funding to repave them. The policy of the county not repaving these roads is fairly old. The subdivision residents may have know this for years and should have been informed when they purchased their homes, but the county admits they have done a poor job in the past making residents aware of this policy.