Community Cycles has a great rundown of local bike shops on their website, here.
With information about each shop such as what each carries, what they specialize in, and all the info you need to get in contact with them, it's a great one stop resource for every shop in Boulder.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Time gone by.
Holy Crap.
The last post I made was in August of last year. I'm not sure how 4 months slipped by without me updating this meager bike blog, but it has. It's not been for lack of doing bike stuff. I've gotten more busy with Community Cycles, BLAST (the BVSD one, not the Boulder Local Action Support Team) has kept me busy working on getting a curriculum for junior high school students to have some awesome bike action in their PE classes (more on that later...) and I found out several months ago that I'm going to be a dad.
That last little bit has me working on several big projects in a push to get them done before the baby gets here, as I realize how little time I'm going to have in the coming months.
I went to Southern California for the holidays, and met Nick from killradio, who has a podcast called "biketalk" and is awesome. It's a two-hour show that covers all kinds of things bicyling related. I'm behind in keeping up with the show, but the episodes are all available at killradio's website. I'm told an interview I did with him got airplay, but I have yet to hear that eposide. Like I said, I'm behind.
The show covers all kinds of things, from alley cat races, to sanctioned road races, to commuting, to the guy who rode across the country to go to the first ever inauguration of a Black American President. The people involved in the podcast are all bike enthusiasts from Los Angeles, and their love for bikes definitely comes through each and every show.
I was so inspired when I found, listened to, and met the biketalk folks that I'm working on a similar show for Boulder's bicycling scene. I've got a few things up my sleeve, and will entertain any offers of help to contribute to a podcast that's about bikes in Boulder.
That's all for now.
The last post I made was in August of last year. I'm not sure how 4 months slipped by without me updating this meager bike blog, but it has. It's not been for lack of doing bike stuff. I've gotten more busy with Community Cycles, BLAST (the BVSD one, not the Boulder Local Action Support Team) has kept me busy working on getting a curriculum for junior high school students to have some awesome bike action in their PE classes (more on that later...) and I found out several months ago that I'm going to be a dad.
That last little bit has me working on several big projects in a push to get them done before the baby gets here, as I realize how little time I'm going to have in the coming months.
I went to Southern California for the holidays, and met Nick from killradio, who has a podcast called "biketalk" and is awesome. It's a two-hour show that covers all kinds of things bicyling related. I'm behind in keeping up with the show, but the episodes are all available at killradio's website. I'm told an interview I did with him got airplay, but I have yet to hear that eposide. Like I said, I'm behind.
The show covers all kinds of things, from alley cat races, to sanctioned road races, to commuting, to the guy who rode across the country to go to the first ever inauguration of a Black American President. The people involved in the podcast are all bike enthusiasts from Los Angeles, and their love for bikes definitely comes through each and every show.
I was so inspired when I found, listened to, and met the biketalk folks that I'm working on a similar show for Boulder's bicycling scene. I've got a few things up my sleeve, and will entertain any offers of help to contribute to a podcast that's about bikes in Boulder.
That's all for now.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Road Cycling, the lack of olympic coverage, and you.
The problem?
1. I grew up riding and reading about BMX bikes.
2. I work at CommunityCycles, and regularly work with city employees.
3. I know several people who regularly go on the Cruiser Ride.
4. I have a tallbike, and have ridden it a>down Boulder Canyon, twice and b>on the Boulder 360. Twice.
5. I commute by bike to work from Lafayette 4 or 5 times a week.
6. While I don't regularly ride a mountain bike, I'm on several email lists of/about/by mountain bike enthusiasts, and keep up with their doings and happenings.
These aren't so much problems as they are strange qualifications for something I'm not quite sure of, but with these, I feel like I've got an ear to the ground with regards to most of the bicycle related things happening in and around Boulder. Except one. This one is the problem:
I know next to nothing about recreational road cycling.
And, I do ride a road bike now. I mostly use it to commute to work, go to the grocery store, and just my general transportation. I have ridden on a 2 day century, and several longer daytime rides with my roadie friends. This is about the extent of my recreational road riding. Most of the time, nowadays, when I'm on a bike, it's because I'm going somewhere, above and beyond "on a bike ride".
The person whose flats I'll happily fix on a Monday morning on our commute to work has a professional road and track cyclist as a parent. She's explained more to me in the year I've known here about professional and recreational road cycling than I've learned in all my 32 years.
I wanted to post something about Taylor Phinney, a kid from Boulder who makes it to the Olympics on a bicycle. What more could BoulderBikes be looking for in blogfodder than that? The Slipstream team made waves with their biweekly dope tests, and they're based in Boulder and rode in the Tour. Better writers than I have written more about these two subjects than I could in weeks of hacking at the keyboard, so I'll leave these media lovelies to the mainstream media. At least until I have something useful to add.
I'd love to include more happenings and things of interest to road cyclists in and around Boulder, but I have no idea where to start. I'm not up on rides, races, events, or issues surrounding riding a road bike in Boulder County.
This is where you come in. If you consider yourself a road rider-- that's the only qualification I'm looking for is that you consider yourself to be one-- and there's something you think belongs here on BoulderBikes, please let me know. Feel free to comment here, or email me at veganboyjosh@gmail.com.
Thanks.
1. I grew up riding and reading about BMX bikes.
2. I work at CommunityCycles, and regularly work with city employees.
3. I know several people who regularly go on the Cruiser Ride.
4. I have a tallbike, and have ridden it a>down Boulder Canyon, twice and b>on the Boulder 360. Twice.
5. I commute by bike to work from Lafayette 4 or 5 times a week.
6. While I don't regularly ride a mountain bike, I'm on several email lists of/about/by mountain bike enthusiasts, and keep up with their doings and happenings.
These aren't so much problems as they are strange qualifications for something I'm not quite sure of, but with these, I feel like I've got an ear to the ground with regards to most of the bicycle related things happening in and around Boulder. Except one. This one is the problem:
I know next to nothing about recreational road cycling.
And, I do ride a road bike now. I mostly use it to commute to work, go to the grocery store, and just my general transportation. I have ridden on a 2 day century, and several longer daytime rides with my roadie friends. This is about the extent of my recreational road riding. Most of the time, nowadays, when I'm on a bike, it's because I'm going somewhere, above and beyond "on a bike ride".
The person whose flats I'll happily fix on a Monday morning on our commute to work has a professional road and track cyclist as a parent. She's explained more to me in the year I've known here about professional and recreational road cycling than I've learned in all my 32 years.
I wanted to post something about Taylor Phinney, a kid from Boulder who makes it to the Olympics on a bicycle. What more could BoulderBikes be looking for in blogfodder than that? The Slipstream team made waves with their biweekly dope tests, and they're based in Boulder and rode in the Tour. Better writers than I have written more about these two subjects than I could in weeks of hacking at the keyboard, so I'll leave these media lovelies to the mainstream media. At least until I have something useful to add.
I'd love to include more happenings and things of interest to road cyclists in and around Boulder, but I have no idea where to start. I'm not up on rides, races, events, or issues surrounding riding a road bike in Boulder County.
This is where you come in. If you consider yourself a road rider-- that's the only qualification I'm looking for is that you consider yourself to be one-- and there's something you think belongs here on BoulderBikes, please let me know. Feel free to comment here, or email me at veganboyjosh@gmail.com.
Thanks.
Survey: How bike friendly is Boulder?
The League of American Bicyclists does a lot of work to make cities in the US more bike friendly. Among other things, they award cities a designation of "Bicycle Friendly City" to deserving cities every year.
Boulder has been awarded a gold medal in the past, (platinum is the highest level) and it's time to vote again. It's more than voting, though. It's your chance to voice your opinion about what Boulder does well, and where we're lacking as far as a bike friendly place to live goes.
Boulder has more bike facilities, infrastructure, and general bike awesomeness than any city I've ever lived in (I've lived in 16...so far) aside from up in the Pacific Northwest. The City That Works has won the Platinum designation more than once from the League.
Let them know what you think. They have a survey posted on their website, here, which is open to the public. The more people who fill it out, the more accurate a depiction of Boulder's bike family they'll have.
They would like to have the surveys filled out by September 10th. I just filled mine out, and it took all of about 5 minutes, and I can be verbose when it comes to bikes.
Boulder has been awarded a gold medal in the past, (platinum is the highest level) and it's time to vote again. It's more than voting, though. It's your chance to voice your opinion about what Boulder does well, and where we're lacking as far as a bike friendly place to live goes.
Boulder has more bike facilities, infrastructure, and general bike awesomeness than any city I've ever lived in (I've lived in 16...so far) aside from up in the Pacific Northwest. The City That Works has won the Platinum designation more than once from the League.
Let them know what you think. They have a survey posted on their website, here, which is open to the public. The more people who fill it out, the more accurate a depiction of Boulder's bike family they'll have.
They would like to have the surveys filled out by September 10th. I just filled mine out, and it took all of about 5 minutes, and I can be verbose when it comes to bikes.
Picture Rock Trail Grand Opening
Come join the Boulder County Commissioners & BCPOS Staff for a ribbon cutting ceremony, and a ride immediately after.
The details right now:
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Park at Planet Bluegrass
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Ride to the NO PARKING access point along Red Gulch Road.
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After the ceremony and ride, return to Planet Bluegrass for a catered party provided by Oskar Blues... BCPOS is going to to this right!
The Boulder Mountainbike Alliance are all about Better Trails for Boulder County! Join the BMA and be part of the solution. Send a $25 check to BMA, PO Box 4954, Boulder, CO 80306, or join by using our online Paypal webpage by clicking here.
The details right now:
*
Park at Planet Bluegrass
*
Ride to the NO PARKING access point along Red Gulch Road.
*
After the ceremony and ride, return to Planet Bluegrass for a catered party provided by Oskar Blues... BCPOS is going to to this right!
The Boulder Mountainbike Alliance are all about Better Trails for Boulder County! Join the BMA and be part of the solution. Send a $25 check to BMA, PO Box 4954, Boulder, CO 80306, or join by using our online Paypal webpage by clicking here.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Boulder Indoor Cycling
Speaking of "The" velodrome, someone forwarded me a link to Boulder Indoor Cycling's website, according to which;
"Boulder Indoor Cycling is pleased to announce the recent signing of our lease at 3550 Frontier Ave. in Boulder! The building's prior interior configuration is currently in the demolition phase. We are slated to begin the buildout of the cycling center starting in June, with our...Grand Opening projected for early September!"
I've never been to a real velodrome, never even seen an actual track race, aside from some crazy crash videos on youtube. I'm excited if this thing happens. I do wonder if there's market enough in Boulder for them to keep at it.
There's also a survey on the website for visitors to fill out, to help Boulder Indoor Cycling get a handle on what cyclists in Boulder are interested in.
Good luck, Boulder Indoor Cycling.
"Boulder Indoor Cycling is pleased to announce the recent signing of our lease at 3550 Frontier Ave. in Boulder! The building's prior interior configuration is currently in the demolition phase. We are slated to begin the buildout of the cycling center starting in June, with our...Grand Opening projected for early September!"
I've never been to a real velodrome, never even seen an actual track race, aside from some crazy crash videos on youtube. I'm excited if this thing happens. I do wonder if there's market enough in Boulder for them to keep at it.
There's also a survey on the website for visitors to fill out, to help Boulder Indoor Cycling get a handle on what cyclists in Boulder are interested in.
Good luck, Boulder Indoor Cycling.
Valmont Bike Park makes VeloNews
Thanks, Sue, for sending this VeloNews article our way.
I've been hearing rumblings of what's going to go in at Valmont City Park's bike park for a while now, but nothing concrete, so to speak. The last few weeks have brought more solid information from more solid sources.
Now, if only that velodrome would materialize...
I've been hearing rumblings of what's going to go in at Valmont City Park's bike park for a while now, but nothing concrete, so to speak. The last few weeks have brought more solid information from more solid sources.
Now, if only that velodrome would materialize...
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