The results from Boulder's Bike to work day are in here is what the Director of Bike to work Month in Boulder had to say below.

Thanks everyone (riders, volunteers, sponsors, city officials, and everyone else) for your support and participation in the 2009 edition of Boulder’s Walk & Bike Month. We totaled 7,137 sign-ups for Bike to Work Day, a great turnout, including 1,670 new-timers. The total number of car miles saved (including telecommuting, carpooling, walking, biking and busing) was 144,759, and 322 Boulder County companies participated.

Congratulations to Patti Bonnet and Steve Nepi, winners of two Electra Cruisers raffled off by Pedal to Properties at the Boulder Theater during our Bike Shorts Film Fest.

Prize winners have been determined for Bike to Work Day participants and anyone who played BINGO and Park(ing) Spaces. BTWD prizes will be announced on July 10. Find out if you won!

Park(ing) Spaces and BINGO prize winners will be announced by July 13. You should receive an email if you won a prize, but you can also check online to see if you won after July 13.

Also available July 10, the business challenge winners will be announced on the business challenge page.

Outside Magazine has done a great interview with local Tour Divide rider Chris Plesko.

Most riders are either off the course or will be finishing the 2009 Tour Divide race soon. Despite the phantasmagorical weather this year, most records fell—an interesting portent for the evolution of self-supported Continental Divide racing. Alaskan Jill Homer broke the female record with a time of 24 days, 7 hours and 24 minutes. Jay and Tracey “T-Race” Petervary set a tandem (that’s right) record of 18:13:44. And 27-year-old engineer-turned-teacher Chris Plesko blew the asterisks off the single speed record in the 2009 Tour Divide with a time of nineteen days and sixteen minutes. He spun his Vassago 29er through unprecedented bad weather. I caught up with him just after he returned home to Colorado.

JB: How the hell did you keep up with the chase group for most of the race? They had gears (in case you didn't notice).

CP: The first part of the race course is quite singlespeed friendly. It's got loads of climbing and not too many long, gradual downhills which are my nemesis from the perspective of racing with the geared guys heads up. I geared really big (for me) at 32x17 but I knew from training in the mountains above Boulder with a 32x16 that I could push

Looks like the good folks at Boulder Mountain Bike Alliance are working with the city parks department to create a new single track that will go around the rez. To make this even better is that Open Space is not part of the discussion because this is on city land which means.... this trail could have races on it!! If you are interested in see this happen then please attend the meeting July 13th, see below.

The Boulder Parks and Recreation Department is revisiting its master plan for Boulder Reservoir. We'd like to see a proper trail network circumnavigating the reservoir for mountain bike racing, cross country running races, triathlons, and to give us all one more place to play. Don't forget that this area ties into the Boulder Valley Ranch trails. Unlike the Open Space Department, which bans competetive events on all Open Space Lands, this area could and does host races because it is run by the Parks Department. Please comment on line here. Tell them that you'd like to see an "well-designed natural surface trail network" circumnavigating the reservoir. Personalize your comment as you'd see fit, but if you do not have time, simply cut and paste the following sentence into the on line comment form:

Local rider sets record singlespeed record.

WESTMINSTER - There are weekend-warriors and there are ultra-athletes, and most would agree Colorado sees its fair share of both. Chris Plesko admits he never thought he'd take his mountain biking far enough to ever warrant the attention of a local TV station, but recently he's done just that.
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"I'm still a little bit in shock," he said.

Plesko's barely been home for 24 hours, and he is just starting to really wrap his head around what he's done.