Keep speaking out to save the Folsom St protected bike lanes! Enjoying the new protected bike lanes on Folsom? Please tell the city how much you do! There have been hundreds of emails opposing these brand new Protected Bike Lanes. It’s important for City Council, the Daily Camera, and our entire community to know that the new … Read More
CLIPS Beer and Film recap
Weather was threatening early and ended with a wind gust taking down the screen. In between a beautiful view of the flatirons sunset, good films, and great beer from our wonderful sponsor New Belgium . Thank you all for coming out and supporting Community Cycles ! AND, Congratulations to the winner of the Cruiser, Joel Boymel! Hope to see … Read More
Community Cycles Now Picks Up Your Used Bike
At Community Cycles, donated bikes and bike parts are the raw materials we use to build up bikes for our programs, for giveaways, and to sell to raise money for the shop and advocacy around Boulder. We prefer to have donations brought into the shop, but if this is not an option for you, we … Read More
The State of Bicycling in Boulder
The Community Cycles’ Advocacy Committee just released its Annual Report “The State of Bicycling in Boulder.” The report reviews bicycle infrastructure and policy within the city of Boulder from the viewpoint of everyday bike riders. The report includes a summary of the past year, the 2015 targeted issue: Bicycle Theft, and other topics including traffic … Read More
Go to the Boulder Civic Area open house!
By Chuck Brock The city of Boulder is redesigning the Civic Area parkland that includes Central Park (in front of the Dushanbe Teahouse) and the area around the library. The proposed changes include making Canyon Blvd a “complete street” to better accommodate people that are not driving, and an extension of the path that … Read More
Fund honors Aaron Tuneberg through Boulder bike-repair classes
Community Cycles is teaming with Boulder Valley School District to offer classes teaching students with mental disabilities how to repair bicycles. Read more here .
Community Cycles Preserves Multi-Use Path Right-of-Way to Centennial Middle School
By Sue Prant Community Cycles has been working hard to preserve Multi-Use Path Rights-of-Way (ROW). Often these ROWs get lost in the city annexation process and without Community Cycles watchdogging this issue, they are lost forever and multi-use trail connections never get built. A recent one came up on Norwood that would allow … Read More
14th / Walnut Bus then Bike Station Ribbon Cutting
By Sue Prant The Boulder Transit Center redesign at 14th and Walnut is nearing completion, and thanks to lobbying efforts by Community Cycles, Boulder is getting a 140-space Bus then Bike shelter in addition to several other great upgrades. Bicyclists can apply for a FREE keycard to use the Bus then Bike shelter … Read More
Norwood Connection – Letter to Council
By Sue Prant . Dear City Council: Community Cycles strongly supports the multi-use path (MUP) easement requirement for annexation of the property at 2350 Norwood Avenue. When eventually completed as shown on the City’s Transportation Master Plan, this short MUP will provide a non-motorized link between the residential neighborhoods to the … Read More
Portland: another take on bicycling
By Kurt Nordback Portland, Oregon is rightly famous for beer, tattooed hipsters, and bicycling. Among large metropolitan areas, Portland has by far the highest rate of people biking to work (6.1%), almost double that of the next contender. While this is well below Boulder’s bike-to-work rate (10.6%), small cities with large universities, like … Read More
