June is Walk & Bike Month in Boulder!

Once again Community Cycles is organizing this celebration of walking and biking. We have over 85 fun events. You can go on a ride, enjoy a hike, learn mountain bike skills, check out Valmont Bike Park, learn how to fix your bike, and get tips of how to use your bike more often. There are parties and social events geared to people who love to bike. Of course the big highlight events return- Bike to Work Day on June 27th, Clips of Beer and Faith Film Festival on June 29th and the B360 Circle Boulder by Bicycle Ride on June 3rd. Don't forget to make your ride count and Register for Bike to Work Day. (The more bike trips we have, the more bikes count in the transportation planning process!).

Click here for the complete list of Boulder Walk and Bike Month events or to find Bike to Work Day events.

The Boulder Bicycle swap will be held May 20th 2012 10am to 4pm. Vendor set up begins at 8am.

Registration is now open

Register here

The Boulder Bicycle Swap is now in its second year. We had over 1000 attendees in 2011. We plan to make this another great year with more vendors and events.

SCARPA North America
3550 Frontier Avenue
Boulder, CO 80301
[map link with directions]

Elevations and Community Cycles - Bicycle Recycling Drive & Celebration Event
Saturday, June 2nd, Noon – 3:00 pm
At Community Cycles main shop
2805 Wilderness Place, Ste. 1000

Join Elevations Credit Union by creating a culture of cycling and support local non-profit Community Cycles.

The tax-deductible donation of your bicycle or parts will be matched with a cash donation from Elevations. Celebrate the success of this campaign by joining us for a June 2nd celebration event at Community Cycles with DJs, food,and fun. Bicycles will be collected from May 1 to May 31 at five Elevations locations. Call Elevations at 303.443.4672 x1121 to coordinate your donation.

In just 6 years, Community Cycles has graduated 1000 Earn-a-Bikers! Earn-a-Bikers volunteer for 15 hours and then build a bike of their own to take home for free! For many of these folks, this bike is their primary form of transportation. Building a bike and learning safety skills opens a whole new world to many of these folks.

To celebrate, Community Cycles is featuring a photo display of Earn-a-Bikers with their bikes as part of the Bike Art show at the Dairy Center for the Arts. A gala free opening in conjunction with the “Bike Art at The Dairy show” will take place on March 9th, 4-7 p.m. Please come and show your support!

On Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012 the Walnut Café and sister restaurants The South Side Walnut and The Super Mini Walnut (Lafayette) will mark the 6th anniversary of Dana and Rocky's successful kidney transplant surgery by giving 100% of our profits from the day. Kirk "Rocky" Derichsweiler passed away on Dec. 12, 2011 – Organ donation saved his life and cancer took it. We will be sponsoring a fundraiser for a Foundation established in his name that will focus on Organ Donation education for kids through the Boys and Girls Club and kid's bike give away through Community Cycles! Donate Life Colorado will be participating as well as Community Cycles. And our friend Peggy Dyer from the "One Million Faces" project will also be taking photos and donating to the cause. If you cannot attend please consider making any size donation. Checks to the KRD Foundation, mail to the Walnut Cafe 3073 Walnut, Boulder, CO., 80301 or drop off at any of the Walnuts on Saturday, Feb. 18th!

Please come in and enjoy a fabulous breakfast or lunch and give to a great cause.

http://www.donatelifecolorado.org/

http://www.communitycycles.org/about-community-cycles.html

http://onemillionfaces.org/

http://www.positiveplaceforpueblokids.org/

300 Days of Sun + 150 Miles of Bikeways = Ride All Year!

Winter Bike to Work Day is Wednesday Jan. 18, 2012

Give winter cycling a try and you will be rewarded. Sign me up!

The City of Boulder is celebrating its fourth 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 from 7 to 9 a.m. Additionally, enter the WBTWD drawing for fabulous prizes by telling us about your ride using our WBTWD online registration form. You could win cycling gear that will make winter riding less breezy and more easy!

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.u

FAQ

• Why should I register?
• Where are the breakfast station locations?
• Who participates?
• How should I prepare for winter riding?
• When are the bikeways plowed?
• Can I get a WBTWD event T-shirt or water bottle?
• Who are the 2012 WBTWD sponsors?
• What is the extended Forecast?

Why Should I Register?

To make your trip count! It helps organizers track how many people participate and enables us to calculate the contribution you and this event make toward reducing vehicle emissions. It also helps breakfast stations plan how much food to offer. So 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 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.

Where are the breakfast station locations?

WBTWD participants will be gathering at the following locations to celebrate their ride to work and for a complimentary breakfast* provided by the participating destination. It will make the ride worthwhile!

• Alfalfas at 1651 Broadway
• Community Cycles at 2805 Wilderness Place, Suite 1000 (just north of the Goose Creek path, west of the Foothills Parkway underpass)
• CU at SE corner of 18th Street & Colorado Avenue
• Dushanbe Teahouse at 1770 13th Street
• Ideal Market at 1275 Alpine
• Moe's Broadway Bagel at 2650 Broadway
• Moe's Bagels on Arapahoe at 3075 Arapahoe
• Moe's 28th Street at 3267 28th Street
• Page Two at 6565 Gunpark Drive in Gunbarrel
• Pedal to Properties at 1949 Pearl Street
• Rally Sport Health and Fitness at 2727 29th Street

*Breakfast will be served from 7 to 9 a.m.

Funding for EAB & Bike Ambassadors

Community Cycles, will receive two grants totaling $120,000 from the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) and Boulder County.

The 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. The program will begin in March, and businesses in Boulder County and along the U.S. 36 corridor are eligible to participate.

Boulder County awarded Community Cycles $70,000 to expand the Earn-a-Bike program, which involves participants attending several classes to learn basic mechanical skills, safety and etiquette before “earning” a bike at no cost. The Boulder County grant is part of a larger Federal Transit Adminstration grant.

The Earn-a-Bike program has reduced car trips and supported low-income county residents with transportation needs. As part of the program, more than 1,500 bikes are recycled into the community as well.

The Dinner & Bikes Tour is traveling the western states this September to tell stories and show movies bicycle culture while serving up tasty gourmet vegan food.

Elly Blue brings you tales of the bicycle economy, accompanied by photographic evidence. She publishes a blog and a zine, both called Taking the Lane, and writes regularly about bicycling issues for venerable online news outlet Grist.org.

Joe Biel will show a selection of very short films about bicycle culture and activism, including excerpts from Aftermass, his forthcoming documentary about bicycle activism in Portland, Oregon over the last twenty years. Joe has been part of Microcosm Publishing since he started it in his closet 15 years ago.

Joshua Ploeg is atraveling vegan chef, who improvises climactic culinary masterpieces on two hours’ notice for you and your date and perhaps also your entire circus troupe, using ingredients from the nearest store in your fully equipped kitchen or just the rice cooker and blender someone left behind in the corner of your squat if that’s how you roll. In adverse circumstances, his food only gets fancier. His book In Search of the Lost Taste is a Microcosm smash hit. He has several cookzines, including the popular Fire and Ice and the brand new So Raw It’s Downright Filthy.

september 19, 7 pm. tickets are $10 for members, $12 for non members, and are available here:Buy tickets online now

Live music from 7-10 PM at the shop! The Please and Thank You's from Chicago, Bust! from Chicago, The Black Dots from Boulder and Jack's Smirking Revenge from Boulder.

On Monday, July 18th 2011, 17 brewer-cyclists from Avery Brewing, Oskar Blues Brewery, Ska Brewing and Sierra Nevada Brewing will depart on their bicycles from Avery Brewing Company in Boulder to kick off the Third Annual Tour of BoulDurango: a five day, 470 mile odyssey over six majestic mountain passes from Boulder to Durango.   To commemorate this occasion, Avery Brewing Company and Ska Brewing have collaborated to brew Wheelsucker Wheat Ale together for the third year in a row.

Wheelsucker Wheat Ale is the SKAVERY interpretation of the perfect post-ride brew: a badass traditional German Hefeweizen! Wheelsucker Wheat will be available on draft at the Avery Tap Room in Boulder and at the Ska Brewing Tap Room in Durango while supplies last.

Brewery representatives from Avery Brewing, Oskar Blues, Sierra Nevada and Ska Brewing will be on hand at the Avery Tap Room this Sunday, July 17th beginning at 2:30 PM to tap Wheelsucker Wheat Ale, watch the Tour de France and raise money for the Boulder bike charity, Community Cycles.  $3.00 from all pints sold from 2:30 to 6PM will go directly to Community Cycles, and all are welcome to join in on the fun, grab a Wheelsucker, watch The Tour and help send off the brewer-cyclists on their journey to Durango.

Sunday July 17, 2:30-6:00 p.m.
5757 Arapahoe Ave.
Suite A1
Boulder, Colorado 80303

- 2:45 pm, Meet at Sister Cities Plaza in front of the Municipal Bldg on Broadway & Canyon.

- 3:00 pm, Stop at Community Cycles (people should meet at CC at 3 pm) along the Goose Creek trail (2805 Wilderness Place, in back of Boulder beer).

Both groups will ride to the Left Hand Grange Valley Park in Niwot where we will connect with the Longmont riders by a handshake, a toast of fruit punch and a Golden Spoke Ceremony to mark the LOBO Trail's connection.

This continues a tradition begun in the Nineteenth Century when the first Transcontinental Railway line was completed. The construction crew and officials coming from the East and those coming from the West would celebrate the connection with a handshake, a toast of champagne and drive a Golden Spike to complete the connection.

See the brochure and map for this event.

Congratulations to Beth Powell who won the Fat Tire cruiser bike!

April 22, 2011 - Earth Day Bike-In Movie Celebration

Join us at the Naropa Bike Shack on Earth Day Friday April 22 for a Bike-In Movie, featuring the amazing bike film, The Triplets of Belleville.

We'll get things started at 8p.m. with your bicycle inspired stories and poetry followed by music from Oaksmere Piddie.

Valet bicycle parking will be available.

Recycle Your Bike!
Community Cycles Bike Collection Drive

Platt Middle School
6096 Baseline Road
Boulder, CO
April 25 - 29
8a.m.-4p.m.

Your donations support programs such as the Youth Earn-a-Bike and the Kids Holiday Bike Give-Away

Recycle Your Bike!
Community Cycles Bike Collection Drive

Shining Mountain Waldorf School
999 Violet Ave
April 11th - 15th

Special Bike Fair featuring bike tune-ups on April 14th 2:00 – 4:00p.m.

Your donations support programs such as the Youth Earn-a-Bike and our high school bike pool.

Check out Bikestravaganza, a traveling road show, part of the Off The Chain Ring Tour, spreading bicycle talk, movies, zines and transportation activism.

Featuring:
Elly Blue and Joe Biel present  short videos and a slideshow about Portland's bike culture, followed by a discussion of bicycle transportation in Boulder and the future of transportation infrastructure and advocacy in Colorado and beyond.

Dave Roche joins us to read from existing and upcoming works including his hit classic, On Subbing.

Microcosm Publishing offers books, zines and movies.

Everyone is welcome to attend and participate in the conversation.

POTLUCK: bring a vegan or veggie-friendly side, salad, dessert or a beverage to share.

$3-10 sliding scale at the door.

Bikestravaganza at Community Cycles main shop
2805 Wilderness Pl suite 1000 in Boulder.

More details at http://bikestravaganza.wordpress.com/

Ryan VanDuzer does it again

Fundraiser for Community Cycles Friday August 6th!

Ryan VanDuzer, long time Community Cycles supporter and videographer, will be riding his bike from Vancouver Canada to Cabo Mexico. He'll be spreading the good word of bikes along the way and raising money for our Youth Earn-A-bike and after school programs. Make a donation in support of Ryans ride today, click on the link to the right.

It’s time to eat beans and drink margaritas!

Come to Wahoos in Boulder on Friday August 6th for some dinner and drinks- 25% of the sales goes to Community Cycles

I eat TONS of beans on my rides…and now it’s your turn to eat what I’ll be eating for the next two months!

We’ll also be auctioning off some fun stuff, showing videos from last summer’s tour across America and having a great ol’ time!

Come one, Come all for the biggest bean eating, margarita drinking extravaganza this side of the Mississippi!

Bike Collection Drive July 29, 30, 31 & August 1, 2
Our popularity and programs continue to grow, so after for years of existence, we're setting out to do our first full force bike collection drive July 29, 30, 31 & August 1, 2.

Bikes make our programs work and we need your help collecting a lot of them.

Our donation policy is quite simple, we'll take anything bike related in any condition. We're a non-profit so we provide receipts for tax-exemption.

Bikes can be donated over the four day drive at 2 locations:

Main Shop will be accepting donations:
Thursday July 29, 1-9p.m.
Friday July 30, 1-9p.m.
Saturday July 31, 11a.m.-6p.m.
Sunday August 1, 11a.m.-6p.m.

North Storage will be accepting donations:
Saturday July 31, Noon-4p.m.
Sunday August 1, Noon-4p.m.
Monday August 2, 4-8p.m.

Since sometimes, it's easier to donate bikes closer to home, we're looking for folks to organize mini-collection drives out in their own community. You and/or your HOA, neighborhood association, workplace or place of worship can host a mini-collection. If you would like to organize a mini-bike collection, please contact us

Browse hundreds of cruiser bikes, parts and accessories from Community Cycles and other vendors. From vintage classics to modern cruisers this event will have something for everyone.

June 23rd, 5:30 pm , Old Main, CU Campus

Sponsored by CU Environmental Center, Community Cycles, city of Boulder Climate Smart Program and Boulder Ice Cream.

All proceeds benefit Community Cycles Youth Earn-a-Bike Program. Price : $6

5:30 pm Ice Cream Social & Jeff Kagan Sing- a- long on the lawn south of Old Main
Ice Cream provided by Boulder Ice Cream, with entertainment by Jeff Kagan and Paige Doughty, provided by city of Boulder Climate Smart Program.
Jeff is a naturalist, educator and children's musician. He and his musical partner Paige explore the realm of ecological cycles, life in the alpine ecosystem, bear and mountain lion safety, water and electricity conservation, alternative transportation and so much more through song and dance.

6 pm Bike Shorts Film Fest- Old Main auditorium
Celebrating the potential, fun, and uses of the bicycle, this year’s Film Fest focuses on locally made films featuring, among others, new films from Ryan Van Duzer and a unicycle climb of many of Colorado’s  14-ners. There are also films from around the country to get you laughing, thinking and smiling about bicycles. Included are: Thoughts on My Bicycle, by a Canadian filmmaker, an interview with Randy Cohen, NY Times magazine “Ethicist” and bicyclist, and a fun music video called, Performance” from a Portland, OR filmmaker.

Enjoy a buffet bar of grilled marinated chicken fajitas with Spanish rice, seasoned black beans, sautéed peppers and onions, tortillas, salsa, sour cream, guacamole, and chips. (Veggie only fajitas also available.) One free beer is served with each meal. Desert provided by The Cup. Admission includes buffet dinner, beer, a choice of pair of Smartwool socks or Cat Eye light, and a ticket for fantastic door prizes

Boulder Beer
2880 Wilderness Place
5:30 pm – 8 pm

Cost: $15 Proceeds benefit Community Cycles Rolling Bike Clinics.
BUY YOUR TICKETS ONLINE

Sponsored by Boulder Beer, SmartWool, The Cup, Cat Eye & Community Cycles

Traveling by bicycle is, in almost every part of the world, the best way to see a place.  Learn more about the joy of bicycle touring in this 1.5 hour introduction, which will cover the what, where, why, and how of bike touring as well as what to bring and what not to bring and trip planning.  This workshop will be led by Bryan Keith, Kurt Nordback, and Krista Nordback, who offer a range of experiences from local Colorado rides to riding in the developing world.  Bring your questions and ideas.

Be sure to join us for the kick-off event of Walk & Bike Month 2010 - The Circle Boulder by Bicycle Tour on June 6th!

Known by those who love it as the B360, this ride, starting at Scott Carpenter Park,  is a Boulder tradition.

This popular family friendly bike ride tours Boulder's Greenway bike trail system. Each year the ride changes just a bit to highlight newly opened trails and connections. This year's ride celebrates the new Elmer's 2 mile Greenway and the 4 Mile Creek underpass at Diagonal and the railroad tracks.

Rolling start at 3 pm. Ride the full 360 or the shorter B180. There will be a bike rodeo for kids before the ride starting at noon sponsored by Community Cycles and a post-ride picnic and prize drawings.

Download this years info and map

You wake up and look out the window. After a full night of snowfall, the snow looks knee deep. Still, it's a perfect day to bike to work. That's because Boulder focuses on keeping bike paths safe and useable, even during our worst snowstorms. Our city has a great snow-removal system. The city of Boulder Streets and Bikeways Maintenance group maintains Boulder's 200+ miles of off-road multi-use pathways to high-level transportation standards. This means that clearing multi-use paths for non-motorized travel is a priority. The city has separate crews plowing the city's multi-use paths at exactly the same time other crews are plowing the streets.

To encourage local commuters to give winter riding a try and celebrate those who cycle all year long, GO Boulder is hosting the first ever Winter Bike to Work Day on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 7 am - 9 am, breakfast at the following locations:

• Municipal Building (hosted by GO Boulder) 
• Moe's on Arapahoe (host by Boulder East/Moe's). 
• 18th & Colorado (host by CU Boulder)

Register on-line to win great prizes like messenger bags, studded snow tires, bike lights, bike pumps and more.

We did a great job of getting these bikes to kids but only raised about $3 per bike. Our Goal was to raise $20 per bike. Please make a financial contribution to ensure this event happens next year.

The Holidays are just around the corner, and we're gearing up for the 4th annual Community Cycles Holiday Kids' Bike Giveaway, to be held on Sunday, December 20th, 9a.m.-Noon. We'll have around 300 refurbished bikes to give away to kids 10 and younger. Although, bikes are free, we suggest a $20 donation per bike.

We're glad to have the support of Boulder Indoor Cycling, who is generously hosting our event again this year.

Boulder Indoor Cycling
3550 Frontier Avenue, Suite A - Off of Pearl between 30th and Foothills
Boulder, CO 80301

How you can support this event

Financial Support
In order to cover the cost of the Holiday Kids Bike Give-Away we're trying to raise $20 for each bike we give away. Sponsor one or multiple bikes by MAKE A DONATION TODAY.

For more information, or if you're interested in helping, donating, or picking up a bicycle, please email josh@communitycycles.org or call 720-565-6019.

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Community Cycles expects to make 300 kids happy this holiday season thanks to the second annual Community Cycles Holiday Kids Bike Giveaway, which will be held on Saturday, Dec. 20, and Sunday, Dec. 21, from noon to 4 p.m. each day. The event will be held at Boulder Indoor Cycling a new Velodrome site, 3550 Frontier Ave, off of Pearl East of 30th St.