Commuting

Oct 5th is International Bike and Walk to School Day

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Mark your calendar and tell your kids that Oct 5th is International Walk & Bike to School Day. Start now! Make a plan and ride with your child to school and for the more ambitious parent, organize a "bike train". A bike train is when you select route where you ride to school and slowly pick up other kids who might not have a parent who can ride with them and by the time you have reached the school you might have as many as 20 kids riding in this train with you. Want help finding what is going on at your child's school or at least who to contact, see this. If your excuse is that it's too dangerous to ride with your child to school then maybe it's time you contacted your school district on getting a Safe Routes to Schools grant going.

See what a Bike Train is

Community Cycles gets major funding boost from DRCOG and Boulder County

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BOULDER – Community Cycles, a nonprofit organization that educates and advocates for the safe use of bicycles, will receive two grants totaling $120,000 from the Denver Regional Council of Governments and Boulder County. These grants, which begin in 2012, will expand Community Cycles’ programs, including its Earn-a-Bike, jail work release, workplace training, and children’s safety programs.

·- DRCOG awarded Community Cycles $50,000 over a two-year period as part of a Federal Highways’ Congestion Mitigation Air Quality initiative. Community Cycles will apply the funding to conduct bike-training workshops at local businesses to encourage bike commuting. This program will begin in March. Businesses in Boulder County and along the U.S. 36 corridor are eligible to participate.

Bike Boxes and Colored Lanes imported to Boulder?

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Great piece in the Daily Camera on the cycling friendship of Boulder with Portland Oregon

Boulder officials have taken notice of Portland's system, and now are exploring several Portland-style street treatments.

One of the projects under consideration is to use colored bike lanes.
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Marni Ratzel, the bicycle and pedestrian transportation planner for Go Boulder, said adding paint may also help increase awareness on Boulder roads.

"It's something new and more visible, and that helps raise the awareness of all users of the presence of bicyclists," she said. "I do think

Bike Valet Parking in Longmont

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You won't find it in Boulder anymore but bike valet parking is alive at the Longmont Farmers Market. Once upon a time Community Cycles of Boulder did bike valet parking at the Boulder Farmers Market and hopefully someone there will be bike valet parking at the Boulder Bolder.

From the Daily Camera

Diane and Bernie Newcomb have been riding bikes to the Longmont Farmers' Market for years -- long before there was a bike valet to take their bikes when they arrived and park them, free of charge.

Colorado Bike Maps

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Did you know that Colorado has a Scenic Bikeway Map? This map provides details of road shoulder width and expected traffic including truck traffic. This is a perfect tool for planning that next Colorado bike tour, whether it will just be a one day trip or weeks on end. The only thing really missing for the touring cyclist is campground information and their facilities but I'm sure that map exists as well.

Colorado Bike Map Links


The Scenic Map and Details
Additional smaller maps around the state
Download the Scenic Bikeway Map

For your next Colorado bike touring trip, you might also want to consider 1 of the MANY supported Colorado bike tours on our tours page, or if you want to plan this ride your self consider checking out our Colorado Climbs page highlighting some of the wonderful climbs in the state or consider buying the Complete Guide to Climbing by Bike in Colorado.

Don't miss out, May is National Bike Month

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May is National Bike Month with LAB

May is almost over and are you using your bike in place of your car more often? May is a hard month in Colorado for the commoner to consider putting their car keys away in choice of a bike but many across the national are doing just that. The DenverPost try to help those wanting to leave their cars at home and the 303 Commuter Team provides tools to see much of a difference you can make and sense of group to motivate them to commute. Check out our Commuter Team page for tips on getting you rolling by bike more often, and for all of our commuting related articles then look at our bike commuter feed

Group stats the 303Cycling commuter has accomplished since Jan 6 2011

Commuting Tip #2 Don't Race your Ride

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It's about the time all the leaves have come out on the trees when the "I'm going to be the next Lance Armstrongs" come out on the trails (heaven forbid they ride on the road). Their guns are blazing as they fly down the trail on their way to work. Then around the water cooler they brag about their 7 mile commuter, how they cut 30 seconds off of their ride from the day before and complain about the runners on the trail. Commuting by bike is not a race! Let's all say it together, commuting by bike is not a race. Amen.

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