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Welcome to the first official Project Highlight here on YGR. Although we've done a lot of infrastructure/trail/path updates over the years, this new feature will be a little more regular and perhaps a little more critical. We're going to call out the good, the bad, and the ugly of Northern Colorado's cycling and pedestrian infrastructure and soft surface trails or lack thereof. First up is the widening of Shields St from Willox to 287, but we'll also be touching on Kechter Road in the area of the Kechter Bridge at I25, bike park efforts, the Taft and Harmony Project, the Poudre River Trail, trail connectivity to Coyote Ridge and to Horsetooth and maybe kick around the canal road mishmash a bit. If you have a project you'd like featured or would like to contribute, please reach out.

Bike Fort Collins is hosting the Bicycle Film Festival on Saturday, November 4 at The Lyric Cinema. Bicycle Film Festival is a benefit show for Bike Fort Collins. Proceeds from the show will help support BFC’s mission of more bikes, safe streets. and programs, including our Bicycle Advocacy initiatives, Active Living efforts, and their ability to deliver Safe Routes to School instruction to over 7,000 students annually within Poudre School District.

Just days after Berthoud, Colorado, opened their 24-acre, $2.2 million bike park, Firestone, Colorado, opened one of their own on September 23rd.  Although smaller than Berthoud's, the two acre park includes an asphalt Velosolutions pump track, wall rides, dirt jumps with wooden lips, drops, and elevated wooden obstacles. The park is located just south of the Mountain Shadows Park at 11267 Carbondale St. in Firestone.

Coach Jeremy Norris has the race report from this past weekend's Colorado High School Cycling League's Haymaker Classic mtb race in Eagle.

We've got a busy weekend here in the Fort! In addition to the Northern Colorado MTB Festival, FC Moves is hosting Open Streets this Sunday, September 24th, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Manhattan Ave and Troutman Pkwy (between Horsetooth and Harmony- just West of the Mason path.) The event is free.
Activities include a wellness hub, Chat with a City Council hub, live music, Music petting zoo with School of Rock, "Touch a Truck" and a misting tent with Poudre Fire Authority, Interactive booth simulating life experiences living with disabilities by Awesome in Action, helmet decorating with Bike Fort Collins, Skating footwork with FoCo Roller Derby, Bubbles, Free Myofascial work and Kinesiology Taping with Adapt Sports Therapy, Chalk the Block, doggie ice cream with Poudre Pet and Feed and more.

The Northern Colorado Mountain Bike Festival, hosted by the Overland Mountain Bike Association, is coming up this weekend at Lory State Park. The festival is free, but passes are required for the Poker Ride and to use the demo bikes (130 different models on sight). The two-day event includes food, beer, live music, group rides, poker rides, demo bikes, Take a Kid Mountain Biking, skills contests, Trail Talks, MTB vendors, raffles, and more.

Alright, friends, we're getting tantalizingly close to being able to ride the Poudre River Trail all the way from Bellvue to Greeley. Three sections of trail totaling about 2 miles need to be wrapped up before we can ride all 40 miles from start to finish. One section is expected to be done by the end of this year, one by the spring of 2024, and the third by the Spring of 2025. I've created this map-heavy guide to help you visualize what needs to be completed and when it is expected to be completed.

Open Streets is coming up on September 24th. Here are the high points.

This past weekend marked race #2 for the NoCo high school teams in Steamboat Springs!
The weather was incredible, the temperatures perfect, and the trails riding fast for some great racing. The NoCo teams improved on their already incredible start to the season in Leadville two weeks ago! Coach Jeremy Norris gives us the following recap.

After serving as the Executive Director of Bike Fort Collins (BFC) since 2019, Dave Dixon is bidding farewell to the organization. Dixon's departure is scheduled for Sunday, September 17th, as he embarks on a new journey as the Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Club of Weld County. He'll start in Greeley on Monday, September 25th.

The Town of Berthoud's Recreation Department announced yesterday that they plan to open the Berthoud Bike Park on September 16th.

The first-ever USA Cycling Gravel National Championships are taking place this weekend, 2.5 hours to the Northeast of us in Gering, Nebraska. Northern Colorado has 21 riders joining nearly 500 other racers vying for the gravel stars and stripes jersey.