You Know Me. I Ride a Bike.
Bike Fort Collins first launched You Know Me. I Ride a Bike. back in 2015, where we featured local residents for whom riding bikes is big part of their life, in a broader awareness campaign. Beginning this month, we are excited to reintroduce this bio-series, where we'll feature one new Fort Collins resident each month highlighting their love for bikes and for riding them.
We're thrilled to announce longtime Fort Collins resident and bicycle commuter, Duane Daire as our first featured resident this month. READ MORE
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Paint the Pavement
As we reported in our December issue, Bike Fort Collins continues to work towards an open, virtual, community gathering aimed at discussing our proposed Paint the Pavement initiative, ideally for the intersection of Canyon Ave, Magnolia St, and Sherwood St. We are grateful to our volunteers who recently helped canvass the neighborhood in that area in an effort to foster inclusive community representation and engagement. Our hope is to hold a virtual community discussion in late February. Watch our website and/or social media channels for updates. In the meantime, we encourage community members and stakeholders to register to be involved. SIGN-UP
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New for 2021, Bike Fort Collins is excited to announce and introduce the BFC Book Club focused on community building, bikes, bicycle advocacy, and how it all applies to our lives in Fort Collins and the Northern Colorado area. The goal of the book club is to increase engagement among all our constituents while educating and advocating for more bicycling or safe cycling initiatives—hopefully creating more advocates and ambassadors for the BFC mission. READ MORE
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Intersection / Facility Focus
This month's intersection/facility focus features the intersection of Hickory St, College Ave, and Conifer St. Have you experienced conflict or felt unsafe at these intersections? Particularly as it relates to traveling east/westbound on Conifer and Hickory connecting from the Hickory/Poudre trail to the low stress bike network east of College Ave. We invite you to take the following survey as we work to improve the overall safety of our streets and improve overall bicycle infrastructure connectivity. Your voice matters!
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In our December issue, we conducted the same survey and posed the same questions for the Linden St & Poudre Trail intersection. Thank you to those who responded. READ RESULTS SUMMARY
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Membership Business Partners are business members of BFC, who also provide a special incentive (i.e. offer, discount or perk) for our individual and family members.
Joel is an experienced photographer and videographer, based in Northern Colorado and focused on public relations photography including event coverage, real estate, nonprofits and fundraisers, and health care, in addition to portraits.
Joel Blocker Photography provides BFC member(s) a two-hour photography session with edited, digital photos for only $100.
A big thank you to Joel for his support not only as a Membership Business Partner, but for partnering with BFC to shoot events like our Tour de Farms ride.
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Not a Member?
Become a member of Bike Fort Collins and help us build strength in numbers. We represent you and the next generation of cyclists by advocating for more funding, education, stronger policies, and better bikeways at the city, county, and regional level.
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Feb 6 - 13th
Galentines Ride
Join us for a virtual Galentine’s Bike Ride as we celebrate friendship. This event is for people of marginalized genders, including women, non-binary folx, and trans men. Galentines Day events will culminate on Saturday, February 13th at 5:30pm with a friendly community chat. READ MORE
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Feb 20th
First Book Club Discussion
Join us on Saturday, February 20th at 5pm as we discuss our first book of the year, Bicycle/Race by Adonia E. Lugo, PhD. For this discussion we will aim to read to page 121 (Part 1) of the book. REGISTER HERE and receive our zoom link!
And don't forget, you can pick up a copy of Bicycle/Race at Old Firehouse Books and enjoy 20% off your purchase!
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Feb 28th
Ride for Racial Justice Fundraising Event
Bike Fort Collin's friends at Ride for Racial Justice are hosting a fundraising event in support of their BIPOC SBT GRVL team, the world-class Steamboat Springs gravel race experience. More details on this event and other Black History Month highlights to follow during the month of February. READ MORE
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Feb 9 - 19th
Moving People Forward
In February, our statewide peers, Bicycle Colorado, will be hosting their annual Moving People Forward event that brings together leaders, innovators, decision makers, business leaders and stakeholders to explore the trends, topics, and technology at the forefront of the mobility revolution.
The 2021 conference will be a series of virtual sessions from February 9-18, 2021. READ MORE
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Feb 28th - Mar 3rd
National Bike Summit
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The 2021 National Bike Summit will take place online, February 28 - March 3, 2021, with daily convenings beginning at 1pm ET / 10am PT. This year’s theme is “Bikes: Our Vehicle for Change” in recognition of the power of bicycling to move us forward, even in the most challenging of times. READ MORE
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A special callout and thanks to the following BFC Business Members. We invite you to support these businesses/organizations whenever and however you can, as they support a similar passion for bicycling as we all do.
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Thank You for reading, and for your interest in and support of Bike Fort Collins.
Our mission is to increase participation in active transportation and advance bicycle culture and policy changes, creating safer streets and communities, while also creating an inclusive and empowering culture for all bicyclists, regardless of ability or identity.
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