by Bill Plock | Apr 28, 2024 | Community, Jessica McWhirt, Mountain Biking
By Jessica McWhirt April 28-2024–The first time I tried mountain biking was with my friend, Joe. Because I was a decent roadie, he assumed I’d have no issues handling a bike with wide handles and knobby tires on a skinny, twisty trail. He was wrong. I was...
by Bill Plock | Apr 25, 2024 | Community
CDOT News Release April 25, 2024–The I-70 Floyd Hill Project requires a long-term closure of the Clear Creek Greenway trail between the US 6 (Exit 244) and Hidden Valley (Exit 243) interchanges for construction and utility work. The closure began in October 2023...
by Bill Plock | Apr 21, 2024 | Colorado News
By Bill Plock April 21, 2024–Ride the Rockies (RTR) ended for many reasons. Not all of it can be put on in any one thing and the decline started years ago and accelerated rapidly in the last three years. A complex combination of poor management, a difficult...
by Bill Plock | Mar 25, 2024 | Community, Cycling
By Bill Plock March 25th, 2024–Sierra Vista, Arizona—The three-day El Tour de Zona offers cyclists tastes of the Wild West, the mining era boom and bust, and a sense of community in Sierra Vista, a town created to serve the vast military community nestled...
by Bill Plock | Feb 25, 2024 | Cycling, Jessica McWhirt
By Jessica McWhirt February 25, 2024–My only biking experience in Moab consists of riding through Arches National Park on the road back in 2015 and mountain biking the White Rim Trail in 2022. I have yet to do proper mountain biking in Utah, which is what Moab...
by Bill Plock | Feb 12, 2024 | Community, Cycling
By Kate Agathon, Campus Cycles February 12, 2024–When the 2024 Summer Olympics arrive in Paris this July, it will mark 40 years since Nelson Vails stepped onto the podium to claim an Olympic silver medal in the Track Sprint at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los...
by Bill Plock | Dec 18, 2023 | Cycling, Touring
By Kate Agathon (Campus Cycles) Created with community in mind, Colorado’s Ride is a bicycle tour experience unlike any other. “The intended audience is really anyone who wants a cycling adventure that is challenging, but not overwhelming. Someone who loves Colorado...
by Bill Plock | Nov 13, 2023 | Cycling
Popular VeloSwap to restart on November 2, 2024 Boulder, CO – Outside Interactive, Inc., the world’s leading creator of active lifestyle content, services, events, and experiences, today announced that it is transferring ownership of VeloSwap, a longstanding bike swap...
by Bill Plock | Nov 9, 2023 | Cycling, Community
By Bill Plock November 9th, 2023–Forty years ago Campus Cycles opened its friendly South Denver neighborhood bike shop. Tens of thousands of bikes sold and serviced later they are still going strong. Think of the changes and challenges of bike retailing (any...
by Bill Plock | Oct 29, 2023 | Community, Cycling
By Bill Plock October 29th, 2023–Dear Coach Gehlhoff, It was truly a pleasure to meet you and thanks for sharing such a poignant moment with me. You, like many coaches in the Colorado High School Cycling League, are changing lives—and some very dramatically. As...
