The Safe Cycling Program of the Bike Co-op ordered 10,000 “watch for bikes” stickers last winter and has gone through nearly all of them. While the stickers are designed

to go on the bottom of the rear view mirror on the driver’s side of your car, the City has decided to put them on the windshield just below the oil change sticker. So far we’ve delivered 1200 stickers to the City motor pool.
At the CSU Smart transportation fair two weeks ago three campus agencies requested stickers and we ended up giving out 3,000 to the CSU motor pool, parking services, and the CSU Police Department. Parking services intends to distribute a sticker to anyone who gets a parking permit to park on campus.
Finally, the County motor pool called and requested 600 stickers for the smaller county vehicles. Hopefully they’ll find them valuable on every single county vehicle.
The stickers are popular among school kids (any sticker is) and they don’t last long on foreheads or the backs of hands. But they last on bike helmets and on bikes where a lot of them have ended up. They also look great on bathroom mirrors in middle schools and Old Town bars.
If you know of a business with a lot of vehicles that might make use of these, write Click For Email and we’ll see that they get a few hundred!

Representatives from the Bike Co-op receive $900 check from Big Al's (left to right are Matt Diemer, Doug Cutter, Brandon (Big Al's manager), and Rick Price)

The next time you are in the mood for a hamburger or hot dog in Old Town, stop in at Big Al’s and enjoy a burger, a cheeseburger a Detroit Coney Dog or a Chicago Dog (served with sport peppers, neon relish and celery salt!

And as you pay for you lunch, throw that change in Big Al’s change jar to benefit a local 501-c-3 non-profit organization.

Bike Co-op Board President, Doug Cutter, and Rick Price, head of the Safe Cycling project at the Co-op are proud to recieve a check for $900 from Big Al’s staff for June 2011.

“This will help us to complete the rebuild on our panel van for our safe cycling program,” said Cutter. “That’s right,” said Price, “with this we’ll prepare our ‘BEAST – Bike Education and Safety Truck’” to take bicycle safety programs to schools, neighborhoods, and community picnics.

Lesher middle school recently held their 3rd annual bike to school week.  Students and staff biked a cumulative 2,500 miles, burning over 30,000 calories, and prevented almost a ton and a half of carbon emissions from being released into the atmosphere.

Way to go!!!

See photos and more here.

Our friends over at Akinz are making shirts for bike to work day again this year. For each “Bike to Work Tee” they sell, they will be donating $2 to the Bike Co-op.  They have the new designs up on the Akinz site.  Don’t forget to have them delivered by bike if you’re local.

The Fort Collins Bicycle Cooperative presents:
First Friday, June 3^rd 2011

Exhibit hours: Friday June 3^rd 6pm – 9pm

Location:  The Fort Collins Bicycle Cooperative

331 N. College Avenue

Fort Collins, CO 80521

Eligibility: All artwork depicting bicycles, biking culture, bicycle safety, bicycle as alternative transportation, etc. will be considered.

Consideration: To be considered for the exhibit, send a low-resolution image of each piece along with entry form by the entry deadline.  Please e-mail image(s) to fcbc...@gmail.com

Media:  Photography, painting, sculpture, crafts, pottery and other media.  Pieces must be ready to be hung or displayed.  Tables will be available for small 3D pieces.  Only pieces incorporating bicycles or bicycle culture will be considered.

Juror: The Fort Collins Bicycle Cooperative Art Committee

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