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The Colorado State University Cycling Team opened its 2026 mountain bike season last weekend at the CMU Rumble at Powderhorn Mountain Resort.

A GoFundMe fundraiser has been established to support Karen Manley, one of the people injured in the crash near the end of Tour de Fat in Fort Collins on Saturday, Aug. 29th. Manley’s partner, Joshua Robert Douglass, was killed in the crash.

The Colorado High School Cycling League kicked off its 2026 season over the weekend with racing split across the high country. While other divisions took on the Cloud City Challenge in Leadville, the Platte and Yampa Divisions lined up at the Frisco Peninsula Recreation Area for the Frisco Bay Invitational. The weekend’s team spirit was in full force across the pits, featuring temporary tattoos and generous coatings of body glitter.

Northern Colorado high school athletes are getting ready for the first race of the Colorado High School Mountain Bike season, with the Platte Division opening its season Sunday in Frisco.

Most of the Fort Collins area riders are part of SendTown Bike Club’s Ciclismo High School program, which has 60 athletes in the program this year, including 10 girls. Two eighth graders are also part of the program but are not yet eligible to race.

I'm super excited about this post-  our buddy Jim Dickerson is a world champion!
Dickerson, 71, won the men’s 70–74 individual time trial at the 2026 UCI World Championships in Niseko, Japan, yesterday. He covered the pan-flat 15-kilometer (9.3-mile) course in 20:58.37, finishing about 12 seconds ahead of second place.

I’m incredibly sad to announce that Fort Collins native Clint Knapp has passed away.
Clint suffered a cardiac event while riding with his dog, Abby, in his adopted home of Billings, Montana, on Saturday, August 22. He passed away Monday morning, August 24. He was 53.

Overland Mountain Bike Association, Northern Colorado and Southern Wyoming's IMBA chapter, is hiring an Outreach Coordinator. The opening for the full-time permanent position closes on August 31st or when filled.

Colorado's popular statewide e-bike rebate program is coming back later this month. Beginning August 24, eligible low and moderate income Coloradans can register for a chance to receive a $1,000 point of sale rebate toward the purchase of a qualifying e-bike, with additional incentives available for cargo and adaptive e-bikes.

Alright, fine, let's talk about chip seal and why it's a necessary evil. Nobody likes it, but we should at least understand why it gets done every summer.
I fired off a Q&A to Todd Juergens, Director for Larimer County Road and Bridge, to get info on lifespan, frequency, cost, and why, from an engineering standpoint, repaving isn't always the best course of action. Head over to YGR to learn everything you ever wanted to know about your nemesis, Mr Chip Seal.

One of the biggest missing links in Fort Collins' trail network is finally beginning to look like..... a trail.

As Windsor prepares to break ground on a 10-acre bike park in early 2027 and Fort Collins continues planning for a proposed 60-acre bike park, another community in the region is about to celebrate a major milestone.

The City of Laramie, Wyoming, will officially open its new 9-acre bike park on Aug. 22, continuing a growing trend of communities investing in purpose-built spaces for cyclists of all ages and abilities.

The MyCycle campaign kicked off this week, and I'm hoping you've already earmarked it as one of the ways you're going to give back to the community each year. The need isn't going anywhere, and neither are we. Let's fund some bikes.