Fort Collins Bike Co-op

Bike Collective Short Film

jtaggart — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:00:37 +0000

Our friends over at the Bicycle Collective just posted this new video. We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

Bike Co-op recognized with Environmental Stewardship Award

dcutter — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:45:51 +0000

Ben Gannon accepted the Environmental Stewardship award on behalf of the Bike Co-op and all of our recycling volunteers.

The Board of Larimer County Commissioners today announced the 2011 Larimer County Environmental Stewardship Awards. These awards, began in 1995, are given each year to honor the environmental efforts of county residents, businesses and organizations. To date 58 awards have been presented to programs, people and organizations since the program began 17 years ago. Today five more recipients are added. Winning programs are innovative and proactive, and show exceptional effort and concern for stewardship of the environment of Larimer County.

The County’s volunteer-citizen Environmental Advisory Board reviews the nominations and makes recommendations to the Commissioners who determine the recipients.

The Fort Collins Bicycle Co-op, for their comprehensive actions designed to make bicycles and bicycle riders sustainable. These efforts include: bicycle safety education for children, such as the bike rodeo and helmet distribution; repairing and returning refurbished bikes that were abandoned or unclaimed to the community and to Ghana as part of the village bicycle project; recycling the steel, aluminum, and rubber from worn out bikes; and, embracing the principle of sustainability and providing an important example.

Thanks to all the volunteers who make this happen for our community!

More details about additional recipients here:

http://www.larimer.org/news/newsDetail.cfm?id=1280

With My Own Two Wheels

jtaggart — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:38:02 +0000

The Bike Co-op is proud to announce two Fort Collins screenings of the feature length documentary With My Own Two Wheels. Two Wheels weaves together the stories of five individuals across the globe into a single narrative about the bicycle as a vehicle for change. The documentary was shot on location in Zambia, Ghana, India, Guatemala and California. Each screening will be followed by a question and answer session with the Producer/Co-director of the film Jacob Seigel-Boettner.

The screenings will take place at 7:00pm on December 7th and 8th at The Lyric Cinema Cafe. Tickets for each night can be purchased before the event for $10 at the Bike Co-op or The Lyric Cinema Cafe. Tickets will also be available at the door for $15. Seating is limited, so buy your ticket early. Each ticket purchase includes a complimentary New Belgium Beer (For those of legal drinking age). Hey, $10 for a movie and a beer! Just try to find a better deal.

All proceeds raised from the two night event will help to support the Fort Collins Bike Co-op and World Bicycle Relief

Sponsored by Poudre Valley Health Systems and New Belgium Brewery.

Movie Trailer

Bike Co-op’s “Watch for Bikes!” Campaign Takes Off

Rick Price — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:31:15 +0000

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!

HuHot “Keep the Change” Fundraiser

jtaggart — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:00:26 +0000

For the entire month of September, the Bike Co-op will be the recipient of the HuHot “Keep the Change” program proceeds. Patrons to the restaurant have the option of rounding their bill up to the nearest dollar, and the Bike Co-op gets to “Keep the Change”. Both the Old town and Front Range Village locations in Fort Collins are participating. So, get some friends together for dinner, and raise some money for the Co-op at the same time.

Tour de Fat Volunteers needed

jtaggart — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:47:20 +0000

Saturday, Sept. 3 – TOUR de FAT hits the streets of Fort Collins; Yes! This year the Co-op will benefit from a percentage of beer sales, valet bike parking and concession sales of T-shirts and New Belgium merchandise. We still have 60 shifts to fill here. And if you help with beer sales you need to undergo TIPS training the week before. Note that if you plan to ride the TdF there are plenty of afternoon shifts when you can help and still pedal in the parade. You can sign up for shifts at Tour de Fat here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/tour19

Here is where to sign up for TIPS training:

Aug 24th http://www.signupgenius.com/go/tips6

Aug 30th http://www.signupgenius.com/go/tips7

We also have several positions in bike valet, cleanup, and selling merchandise (t-shirts etc.) that do not require TIPS training. Please consider signing up on-line to help out.

Volunteers receive two beverage tokens and a Tour de Fat T-shirt!!

Please try to bring a friend, Mom and Dad, or even Gramma and Grandpa – we’d love to have them help! Help the Co-op make Tour de Fat successful.

More info needed? Contact Doug at pres...@fcbikecoop.org

Big Al’s Change Jar Yields $900 to Bike Co-op in June

Rick Price — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:47:29 +0000

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 logs 2,500 miles

jtaggart — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:19:04 +0000

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.

2010 Bike To Work Shirts

jtaggart — Tue, 24 May 2011 19:13:07 +0000

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.

We Dream About….

jtaggart — Sun, 15 May 2011 15:13:03 +0000