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

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.

Separate but related to this, 303cycling is looking for bike commuters and hear their stories on how they make it work. So far we have received a lot of commuting stories and very soon we will get this story out.

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.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/roadcode

Recently I had time to ask former professional mountain biker now cycling coach / physical therapist Ann Trombley a few questions (this will be a two part interview).

[303Cycling] Give us a little background on Ann Trombley.
[Ann] Born in Michigan.  Raised in Oakland, California by a single mom with 3 kids.   After grade school, I was in a school system where I learned how to fight and dance but not much education.  After being threatened several times while in 8th grade, I decided I would not be going to school any more. We moved to Marin County my freshman year and I was riding my mom's oversized 10 Speed to school.  A friend of mine, Phil Desrosiers, got together with my family and friends to buy me a Mountain bike for my 21st birthday.  That was 1984. For the next ten years, I had an amazing time riding mountain bikes all over the Mount Tam area with a great group of guys.  There were not many women riding at that time.  I will always remember the first time I rode up Fish Gulch from Phoenix Lake.  We got two-thirds of the way up and I pulled over in tears crying and blubbering to my friend, "why did you think I could ride up this?!".  Fish Gulch is now one of my favorite short cuts to get up Mount Tam.  It is pretty darn steep. After studying and working for several years, I got into P.T. school in Denver Colorado.  While in school I met Stan Vinet who dragged me to my first mountain bike race in the hills above Boulder.  That was1994. I think it was up Sugarloaf on someone's private property.  I was always really scared to race so he had to convince me to go.  I won my first race as a beginner.  I remember finishing the race with a flat tire.  AND I won a shock.  They had a spaghetti feed for everyone after the race.  I was hooked.

[303Cycling] What was it like racing in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney?

[Ann] The Olympics were awe inspiring and life changing.   Growing up on Welfare and food-stamps, going to the Olympics was not even on my radar.  My goal was to get into a profession that I liked and that was lucrative.  After racing for 5 years I found out I had a chance of making the Olympic Team.  It was pretty hard to believe.  I then began focusing all my energy on getting on to the Olympic team.  I could not really fathom actually going to the Olympics.  Once I made the team it still didn't really hit me until we all gathered to fly to Sydney.  We met in L.A. and got all our Olympic schwag and flew to Australia. Opening Ceremonies were probably the highlight for me.  It was truly awesome to be with all of the best athletes in the world.  It was overwhelming.  Being in the Olympic village was a blast.  Ruthie, Travis, Tinker and I would go to lunch in this big hangar like warehouse.  It had foods that you couldn't imagine:  Sushi, McDonalds, Mexican, weird sea weed stuff, Ice cream.  You could get whatever you wanted. It was really dangerous.  We would sit around and try to guess what sports the people around us were competing in.  There were really tall people –“Basketball”?  “Water polo”?, really small gals with glitter on their cheeks – “gymnasts”? ,  really big guys – “weight lifting?"  Everyone had their country names on their sweat suits. “Uzbekistan?  Where is that?"  "Look! They look like Monks?  What are they doing in the Olympics?"

The competition portion was really nerve racking.  We pre-rode the course several days before the race.  I had a hard time with quite a bit of the technical sections.  There was a log you had to get over, a rock jump, several steep drop offs and basically a rock water fall.  I was pretty unhappy in my inability to ride some of the sections.  Come to find out my new bike set up was completely different than the bike I had been racing all year.  Luckily the team mechanic was able to make some changes.  It made a huge difference.

The nerves were so bad the night before the race, I don't think I slept.  The day of the race I actually felt pretty calm and realized "I know how to do this, I love riding my bike".  I made a tactical error at the beginning of the race.  During the parade loop I found myself close to the front of the pack and made a decision to drop back to save energy.  I will always regret not just going for it! Because of that and so many other learning experiences that year, I feel I have a lot to give to the juniors and athletes I coach.

Ann Trombley Interview Part 2