The CU Bike Station is a place where students and faculty can get the bikes registered and some basic bike assistance or if in need they can rent a bike for a few days for free. Students are required to register their bikes with the CU police for logical reasons especially considering how many bikes get stolen and abandoned every semester. This year will be a big year for the CU Bike Station since this will be the first year students will not be allowed to have cars which gives CU a chance to get them from day one on a bike. To help with getting students on bike they will hosting a bike sale with Full Cycles the first week of classes Wednesday August 26th from 9am-5pm outside the CU UMC in the Fountain area.

Looking for a new place to ride? Got what you think is the perfect 2 hr road ride or mountain bike ride? Are you new to town, CU Student, looking to get started in cycling around Boulder? Check out the Boulder Rides page. There you will find many but not all of the typical rides along with a few you might not know about. And if you know of the perfect ride or just want to fill in some of gaps please do add your ride!

Higgins Second Medal in Pan Ams

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Boulder's Cari Higgins continued her Pan American Cycling Championships on Tuesday with a second place finish at the CERA Velodrome in Mexico City.

Higgins won the silver medal in the women's scratch race track cycling event. Current scratch race World Champion Yumari Gonzalez of Cuba narrowly won the gold in a close finish.

Higgins' silver was her second medal representing Team USA at the championships. Earlier in the day, she advanced through the first two rounds of the women's sprint that will be continued tomorrow.

UPDATE

Boulder's Higgins Finishes Pan Am Cycling Championships with Four Medals

July 30, 2009

Mexico City, Mexico- Boulder's Cari Higgins (PROMAN Professional Cycling Team) finished her debut Pan American Cycling Championships on Thursday with a bronze medal in the women's Keirin. Higgins completed her competition at the CERA Velodrome with four medals in all four sprint events including the 500 meter, Scratch race, Sprints, and Keirin. Sprinter Jimmy Watkins of Bakersfield, California and Higgins accounted for all six of the team's medals.

Higgins commented "I am so excited to face some great competition in a World Class facility and be successful representing the US. I can't wait for the International competition this winter."

Cari is coached by Missy Thompson of Boulder, a former National Champion and national record holder. Together they started the Flatiron Flyers Junior Cycling Project, a junior cycling team with thirty riders based in Boulder.

Photo City of Boulder

Boulder City will be hosting an upcoming Project Site Walk and Design Charrette Aug 31 for the 30th street improvements project which will focus on the area between Arapahoe to Valmont. In regards to an article #303Cycling reported on earlier on Cyclist on Sidewalks create bad reputation, this section of road one can find a lot of unaware cyclist causing lots of problems and bad karma for the cycling community. If you are interested in participating in this you MUST pre-register for the event. Here are some of the items up for improvement in this project

• 30th Street bike lanes from Arapahoe Avenue to Pearl Street;
• New bridge and pedestrian/bicycle underpass on 30th Street at Boulder Left Hand and North Boulder Farmer's ditch (just south of Pearl Street);