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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.

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.”

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.

Part 3

Part 2

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.

Boulder County Starts Transportation Master Plan

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Follow up story from last week when the Daily Camera first broke the story

Boulder County has begun a year-long effort to develop a Transportation Master Plan (TMP) that will guide the County's transportation programs and projects over the next twenty-five years.

The kick-off begins this month with a series of three public meetings - January 13, 19, and 20th! All three meetings will have the same information on current plans and will provide an opportunity for public comment on what we should focus on moving forward.

Meeting Dates:

Thursday, January 13
Boulder County Transportation Department
Large Conference Room, 2nd Floor
2525 13th Street, Boulder

Wednesday, January 19
Centaurus High School
Student Center
10300 South Boulder Road, Lafayette

Thursday, January 20
Longmont Public Library
Meeting Rooms A & B
409 4th Avenue, Longmont

All meetings will be held from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., with a overview presentation beginning at 5:30 p.m.

The meeting on January 13 in Boulder will focus on transportation in west Boulder County.

Winter Bike to Work Day is Wednesday Jan. 19

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From Sue Prant at GoBoulder.net

The City of Boulder is celebrating its 3rd annual Winter Bike to Work Day (WBTWD) to reward those who ride their bike all or part of the way to work, school or another destination around town. Ride and receive a free breakfast at participating locations.

Please take a moment to complete the online form. In return for completing the online registration form, you will be entered into a drawing for fabulous prizes including Eldora lift tickets, Smartwool under the helmet beanies, Smartwool socks, Cateye headlights and taillights, Sierra Designs winter biking jackets, and free admission to a Community Cycles mechanics workshop. Use our our WBTWD online registration form.

This year's festivities are presented by the City of Boulder/GO Boulder in partnership with the CU-Boulder Environmental Center and Boulder County Transportation Department.

For more information on Boulder's Winter Bike to Work Day, visit: www.GOBoulder.net

Breakfast station locations (7 - 9 am)

  • Acupuncture Works at 1723 Canyon Blvd.
  • Page Two at 6565 Gunpark Drive in Gunbarrel
  • Rally Sport Health and Fitness at 2727 29th Street
  • Dushanbe Teahouse at 1770 13th Street
  • Community Cycles at 2805 Wilderness place, Suite 100 (just north of the Goose Creek path west of the Foothills Pkwy underpass)
  • CU-Environmental Center at SW Corner Broadway & Euclid
  • Moes Broadway Bagel at 2650 Broadway
  • Moe Bagels on Arapahoe at 3075 Arapahoe

Latest Valmont Bike Park Update

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Boulder Park and Rec Department has been bending over backwards to keep the park on schedule under extremely unsual conditions. They are going where no city in the world has gone to make this park so there is no template. They are having to "learn as they go" which is taking extra time and they are working extremely hard to have this mean no slip in the schedule. Thanks Boulder Park and Rec for working so hard to make this possible!

Shop Talk - Brandon Dwight and Pete Webber

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303Cycling is branching out and will be producing some video interviews. We will be looking for interesting topics to cover and share with our readers. The story could be anything to do with cycling so if you know someone that you think would be a good interview please feel free to contact us.

Here is part three of the interview. We talked about Pete heading to Europe during the Holidays Brandon meeting Pete in Europe to race Masters Worlds.

This is a slideshow Pete gave last year after his trip to Europe.

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