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FROM A BIKE SADDLE YOU CAN FEEL the breeze on your face and smell the tacos at the food truck you’re passing. It’s easy to wave and ring your bell. It’s super easy to get around in this town on two wheels. It should be, because they’ve been working on making it bike-friendly for decades. Now it’s part of the culture. In fact, so many people ride their bikes here that sometimes you’ll find yourself in a little bicycle traffic jam! Platinum. That is the League of American Bicyclists highest designation for bike-friendly communities. And you know who has that? Fort Collins and only four other towns…in the country! u Colorado Bike Month Even if you’re not a June, variety of bicycle-centered activities. regular bike-rider, you should u Tooth or Consequences Mountain Bike Festival try pedaling out here. Lots of Multiple locations, July 22-24 things make it easy for you— Three-day mountain-bike extravaganza lots of bike lanes and paved featuring the 40 in the Fort Endurance MTB trails, for a start. Race. www.overlandmtb.org. u New Belgium Breweries Tour de Fat You can rent a two-wheeler Civic Center Park, September 3, 9am-4pm for a day or an hour just to see Annual bicycle parade and party. 25,000+ how much fun you can have. pedalers all costumed up riding through downtown. In fact, you can reserve a bike www.newbelgium.com/events/tour-de-fat u Tour de Farms online from the Fort Collins August 20, Leisurely 8-mile tour to farms, garBike Library before you even dens and greenhouses with presentations from get here. It’s easy and you can farmers. www.sustainablelivingassociation.org/ choose what style of bike you event/tour-de-farms-2 want—cruiser, commuter, kids bikes, even a cargo bike! www.fcbikelibrary.org And coming soon, the Bike Share pay a small fee and ride away to your program will have bicycles stationed next destination. No excuses now…you around town. Reserve one with the app, have to at least try it out!
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Bike maps & tours So now that you have your bike, where are you going to go? Find three tours all laid out for you on the FC Bike Library website: breweries tour, environmental tour and historical tour. www.fcbikelibrary.org/tours.php. And download your own bike routes map from FC Bikes at the City of Fort Collins. www.fcgov.com/bicycling/bike-maps.php. Go to www.visitfortcollins.com for bike info, too.