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Every June, Colorado celebrates Bike Month and here in Fort Collins, we love anything that highlights and promotes people who ride bicycles. Bike to Work (or Wherever) Day, is planned for Wednesday, June 28, 2022- the 35th year.

The FoCo Fondo June training ride is coming up on Sunday, June 18th with two routes. The 90-mile route leaves from New Belgium at 9am (meeting at 830 if you please). The 37-mile route is rolling from the Forks around 9am. If you are doing the shorter route, carpooling is strongly encouraged. Meet at the New Belgium Matrix lot at 7:45am to Hitch-A-Ride or help others do so if you have room.

YGR advertiser and nationally ranked age group triathlete Bryan VanMeveren of the VanMeveren Law Group recently updated his book, Your Guide to Road Cycling Safety in Colorado. The book discusses topics like; How common are bike crashes in Colorado, the new Colorado Safety Stop Law, and Vulnerable Road User Statute, Are Cyclists Required to Stay In The Bike Lane At All Times, Can Cyclists Ride Two Abreast On The Roadway, and much more.

YGR has confirmed that Incycle, a subsidiary of Specialized Bicycles, will open three bike shops in the former corporate TREK Bicycle locations here in Fort Collins and Loveland. According to the Incycle website, the shops will open at 202 Laurel St and 931 E Harmony Rd, in Fort Collins and 4880 Thompson Pkwy in Loveland/Johnstown "soon".

The 2023 edition of the One Speed Open will take place on Sunday, June 11th at 10am. The OSO is the OG NoCo gravel event, first taking place in 2005. V1 was a fundraiser so the legend, Rafael Millan-Garcia could head back to Mexico to visit his ailing father. The lowkey grassroots gravel race has happened more or less every year since.

Overland Mountain Bike Association will host their monthly Trail Talks at The Mayor on Thursday, June 8th.  This month's discussion will include work being conducted on Roaring Creek.

Registration is open for Ciclismo Coaching's  Colorado High School Cycling League program.
"This is an inclusive community program. Over the last 13 years of coaching high school, we have created a community where athletes of all levels are welcome to participate, progress, and develop as humans. Whether your goal is to finish your first high school mountain bike race or to win the state championship, our coaches are here to help! We have a lot of fun too!"

The Engine Inside is premiering in Fort Collins on June 29 at the Lyric Cinema. The Engine Inside—a new feature-length documentary from Anthill Films, presented by Shimano, Pon.Bike and PeopleForBikes—uncovers the overlooked potential of the bicycle, our noblest invention, in all its forms. Telling the stories of six people from all corners of the world, the documentary shows us how this amazing, relatively simple, 200-year-old machine can help us build a better future for everyone.

Join the Fort Follies and FoCo Fondo for a FREE women's gravel clinic led by NoCo gravel pros Starla Teddergreen and Hannah Shell with support from Fort Collins' own Whitney Allison.
The clinic will cover skills such as bike body separation, cornering, descending, emergency braking, and group riding, with time to practice in a closed environment before heading out for a short ride.

Windsor, Colorado, will join Berthoud and Firestone with an asphalt pump track ribbon cutting this summer. YGR confirmed that the American Ramp Company began construction on the $250,000, 20,000 sq ft. Velosolutions asphalt pump track in April.