2011 MSC - Salida Mountain Stage Race


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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!

How to get started with the 303cycling Commuter Team?

GO Boulder to name bike-friendly businesses

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BOULDER – GO Boulder and Community Cycles announce the launch of the Boulder Bicycle Friendly Business Program, which recognizes Boulder businesses that make bicycle commuting an attractive and feasible option for employees and visitors.

Businesses interested in receiving this distinction are asked to take a survey ranking their achievements. The survey ranks efforts such as bike parking, involvement in community biking events such as Bike to Work Day, employee incentives such as ECOpass, the availability of changing facilities, the use of bicycle delivery services, and availability of loaner or company bikes for employees.

Businesses are ranked from level one to four, with one being the highest distinction. Businesses are encouraged to upgrade their efforts and apply for a redesignation.

Mead Roubaix -- Dirt, Grit and Gravel

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DBC Events is taking an old race, Boulder Roubaix and replacing it with something similar the new 2010 Mead Roubaix Road Race! This race, much like the Boulder event it not for those who get a little scared of gravel. While this course may not produce as much gravel as the Boulder Roubaix it may be just enough to give this event a unique behavior.

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