New Colorado Cycling Bills in 2011

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Bicycle Colorado is working with other legislators to get 2 new bills into progress at the state capitol.

Open Roads Act Keeps Freedom to Travel


State Representative Andy Kerr announced plans to introduce the Open Roads Act as the Colorado General Assembly begins work next week. The goal of the bill is to provide Colorado citizens and visitors the ability to travel to jobs, schools, stores and attractions by bicycle or electric-assist bicycle without restriction from using public streets.

"Banning bicycle travel on every street in a community penalizes people that choose healthy, affordable, pollution-free transportation." says bill sponsor Representative Kerr.

Leadville Winter Mountain Bike Race Series

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Leadville, Colorado – There aren’t many places in the country like Leadville. Things are a little different when you live in the middle of the Rocky Mountains above 10,000 feet. Winter is long, cold, and full of snow. What to do if you want to stay active? Perhaps head out for some skiing or snowshoeing? This group of hardy souls hops on their mountain bikes and hits the trails.

Preview for the 2011 Leadville Winter Mountain Bike Series

In an attempt to bring a little heat to the cold days, Cycles of Life has been holding a winter mountain bike race series since 2009. In 2009, the series consisted of five races. The attendance for the races varied from about 15 up to around 70. In 2010, they condensed the series to three races – East Side Epic, Tennessee Pass Night Jam, and Mineral Belt Mayhem. The 2011 series will stay the same as 2010.

    Boulder Bcycle gets Google grant of $25,000

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    BOULDER, Colorado (Jan. 14, 2011) — Boulder, Colorado’s B-cycle bike sharing program received a major boost this week, with the announcement that the Google Community Grants Fund at the Tides Foundation has provided a $25,000 donation to Boulder B-cycle, as part of Google’s commitment to support innovative ways for using Internet-based technology to reduce environmental impacts and improve the quality of life in the communities where it operates.

    The Google Boulder office develops revenue platforms for Ads and digital online goods, Google Docs, Chrome, and Geographic projects. The office has product development teams, sales and marketing personnel.

    “This generous donation will go a long way in helping us reach our overall fund raising goals,” said Boulder B-cycle executive director Lewis Wolman, whose organization is holding its official fund raising campaign launch party Friday, January 14, in downtown Boulder. “It’s also important validation when a company like Google gets behind a program like ours. We hope other Boulder-area businesses will be inspired to follow suit.”

    2011 MSC - Salida Mountain Stage Race


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    How was the race? Please send us your race reports, blog links, thoughts, etc.

    The inaugural Riverside Rampage mountain bike race is set for May 20-22 in Salida, Colo. Two days of racing with three different stages are planned for the weekend. Registration and packet pick-up will be at the Boathouse Cantina located at 228 north “F” Street in historic downtown Salida, Colo.

    The weekend’s events include a two-mile hill climb time trial up Tenderfoot Mountain (a.k.a. “S” Mountain) Saturday morning. Afterward we’ll be racing short track on Tenderfoot Mountain. Sunday will be the cross-country race on the Arkansas Valley Hill Trails on and behind Tenderfoot Mountain.

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    Shop Talk - Sonya Looney - Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3

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    For the second addition of Shop Talk, 303Cycling sat down with professional mountain biker Sonya Looney at Full Cycle in Boulder. Sonya has been racing professionally for over five years. In 2010 she placed 2nd at the Cascade Cream Puff, 2nd at the Gunnison Growler, 1st at the Bailey Hundo and raced on the US Marathon Worlds Team to name a few of her accomplishments. 303Cycling asked Sonya a few questions about how she got into cycling, her 2010 season and what plans she has for 2011.

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    Cyclists for Chris Romer show up to hear his bid for Mayor

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    About 200 cycling and Chris Romer fans showed up Wednesday night at The Great Divide Brewery in downtown Denver to support his bid to become the next Denver Mayor. As a Denver native and cycling enthusiast, he is passionate about Denver becoming the most bike friendly city in the country.

    Romer shared recent stories about racing at the Leadville 100 and Bailey Hundo. The inaugural 2010 Bailey Hundo was organized as a partnership between four Colorado Senators—Senator Chris Romer, Senator Mark Scheffel, Senator Mike Kopp, and Senator Greg Brophy, as well as the Platte Canyon Chamber of Commerce and the Colorado Mountain Biking Association (COMBA).

    Before and after Romer's speech, supporters had an opportunity to drink some tasty beer and rub shoulders some of the mountain biking world’s best, including:

    Sonya Looney-Topeak/Ergon
    Susan DeMattei – '96 Olympic bronze metal in Mountain Biking
    Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski – Olympian, 9-time Natl. Champ., 1st Bailey Hundo Champion
    Heather Irmiger - 2009 U.S. XC and Marathon National Champion
    Dave Wiens - US National Mountain Bike Champion and multiple World-Cup winner

    BMA celebrates 20 years, new website & logo

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    See the new website!

    From the Daily Camera

    In 1991, Kent Young invited a group of fellow cyclists to meet at University Bicycles, which he managed at the time, to talk about advocacy for the relatively new sport they'd taken up.

    "Mountain biking was becoming more and more popular, but there was no voice in Boulder," he said. "And generally across the country, it was the beginning of mountain bikers trying to represent themselves as a legitimate user group."

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    Though BMA celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, the battles over bikes on trails in Boulder County started more than 20 years ago, when mountain biking was a fledgling sport, in the 1980s. A 1982 story in the Daily Camera reported:

    "'Mountain bikers' lost their bout with the Boulder City Council Tuesday for open-ended riding privileges on city parks and open space trails and unimproved roads.

    "The council voted ... to generally prohibit the non-motorized bikes on trails, fire access roads and other unimproved roads in city parks and open space."

    Read the rest at the Daily Camera

    303Cycling Commuter Team

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    Photo Credit: Bike Portland

    Commuting Tips

    Happy New Year

    Did you make "Commuting to work by bike" one of your new year's resolutions in 2012? Want help sticking to that goal? Join our 303Cycling Commuter Team in 2012 and be apart of other non-competitive bike commuters making a commitment to commuter more by bike and be able to track your progress and see your benefits and savings! Last year our team rode over 25,000 miles which resulted in nearly $5k in savings not to mention other non-measurable benefits.

    Learn more below and join today on http://www.worldcommute.com

    Join the 303Cycling Commuter Team!

    What a clever idea, a commuter team! Ergon has created a 12 rider team that spans over the USA. How competitive can commuting with your bike be? Very! Try commuting today in the snow and cold, try commuting to the grocery store, try commuting on a date, etc. To make this more "real" you can use tools like WorldCommute.com to track such progress against others. And to start the competition 303cycling has a 2011 Commuter Team! The commuter team will test you will to commute by bike more often and show the world that "yes you can" and show other competitors that you DO take commuting seriously!

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