Valmont Bike Park

Valmont Park Cyclocross Work Session

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Thursday, Sept. 1st, 4:30-6:30pm

Join us for a volunteer work session to get the Valmont Bike Park ready for cyclocross training, Wednesday Worlds, and this season's CX races.

We will be prepping the cyclocross segments of the park by clearing weeds, raking, picking rocks, and pulling up erosion matting. Please help us get these areas dialed for CX training and racing and build on our partnership with the Parks Dept as we head into the CX season and Wednesday morning rides.

The work will be dirty, scratchy, and maybe wet, so come prepared. Wear work gloves and heavy duty shoes. Tools will be provided.

Boulder Cup cyclocross race to be held at new Valmont Bike Park

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Looking for 2011 Boulder Cup?

More Valmont Bike Park news today, this press release from DBCEvents




Boulder, Colorado - July, 2011 -In 2011, the internationally recognized Boulder Cup Cyclocross race will be held at the newly opened Valmont Bike Park. Entering its sixth year, the race at Valmont Bike Park on October 30th will follow successful editions at Harlow Platts Park, the Boulder Reservoir, and Broomfield's Flatirons Crossing.

The City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Department has selected the Boulder Cup and DBC Events (after a competitive call for proposals) as one of only a few events to be sponsored by the city at Valmont Bike Park this year.

While the Boulder Cup is only six years old, DBC Events has been promoting cycling races along the Front Range since 1988. In the early years, race turnouts might be only 100 athletes - in 2011, 700+ are expected to line up to race Boulder Cup on October 30th.

DBC Event's Chris Grealish, views cycling as not just a sport but a way to bring a whole community together."It is not about creating a race for the cycling community but about creating an occasion for an entire community to come together," explains Grealish. "By making the Boulder Cup a community-based event, we hope to introduce Valmont Bike Park to members of the community that may not have discovered the park otherwise."

The bike park, an idea 15 years in the making, became a reality when the Boulder biking community celebrated the park's opening this June. Located at Valmont and Airport roads, the park features 40 acres of natural-surface riding and multiple trails and structures for any rider's skill level, including a tricycle area for toddlers.

The opening of Valmont Bike Park was a wonderful culmination of the collaboration between Boulder's local cycling community and the City of Boulder. The Boulder Cup is excited to host its first cyclocross event at the park - as this event embodies the same spirit of collaboration and community that helped created this unique park.

Accidents are down dramatically at Valmont Bike Park

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Photo Credit: Larry Grossman

According to Officials accidents have curbed down dramatically at Valmont Bike Park after the first couple of weeks. Last week I rolled through the park after a afternoon ride and was pleased to noticed every single rider out there I saw was wearing a helmet. Maybe they wised up or got weeded out, either way the news is good to hear and probably not to surprising, more people like myself are learning that even though you may own a Mountain Bike, its probably not the right kind of bike to bite off the jumps safely. Guess I will need to add another bike to the Christmas list this year!

From the Daily Camera


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Since the Valmont Bike Park opened on June 11, the city's Parks and Recreation Department has been tracking accidents at the park through reports from the bike park staff, volunteers and emergency calls to the park.

"What I've seen this morning is that they're going down dramatically after the first couple of weeks," said Jeff Dillon, parks and planning superintendent for City of Boulder Parks and Recreation.

The number of accidents was not made available to the Colorado Daily at press time, but Dillon said the nature of the accidents was "mostly, scrapes bruises cuts, but there have been some broken collarbones, broken wrists."
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