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The city announced this week that construction on the Siphon Pedestrian Overpass will begin this Fall and will be completed by mid-summer. The much-anticipated overpass will connect SE Fort Collins to the Power Trail via the recently completed Mail Creek Trail over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks.

BIPOC cycling development team consisting of riders of all ages and abilities riding and racing in road, mtb, gravel and cyclocross events. 

Colorado cyclocross racers descended on the New Belgium campus again this year for Cross of the North. The two-day festival uses the bulk of the Send Town Dirt pile course many of you competed on in October. Organizers added a few twists, turns, runups, and planks to mix things up for 700-plus racers.

Our NoCo high school athletes wrapped up a great season this past weekend with the Colorado League State Championships in Glenwood Springs. The Colorado Mountain College course built with the Colorado League in mind featured more technical challenges than the preceding conference races. The weather held for beautiful racing conditions both days of racing and our athletes showed up with some great rides!

Good morning, everyone. We are funding a lot of kids bikes and helmets via the MyCycle Team Challenge but we've got a bit of a gap to fill by the end of the month. Full update below.

Another section, and arguably the most important section, of the Poudre River Trail is set to open tomorrow, October 17th, 2024. The latest segment will connect Fort Collins to Timnath under I25.

The Masonville Mercantile, which has become a popular stop for cyclists in Masonville, Colorado, is set to close on October 20th. The current owners, Melanie and Rodger Patton and Holly and Bruce Cook (you probably met Holly), purchased the Mercantile in December of 2018 and turned it into a cyclist-friendly stop at the crossroads of many popular road routes. 

Colorado's premier cyclocross weekend is November 2nd and 3rd at New Belgium's Fort Collins campus. Cross of the North will host races for all ages and abilities on roughly the same course as the Sendtown Dirt Pile races, although course designers are retaining a few surprises for the USAC race weekend. Even if you're not racing, I encourage you to attend as a spectator or, even better, as a volunteer. There will be food and coffee trucks, a beer garden, and a full vendor area.

Fort Collins-based Niner Bikes has settled into its new location at 2620 East Prospect Road, Suite 180. According to yesterday's press release, the 2,864-square-foot space will house the "core teams" while the operational and finance teams are in United Wheels headquarters in Miamisburg, Ohio. This marks the fourth move since the company moved to Fort Collins in 2011 and a considerable downsize from the most recent 15,000-square-foot Sharp Point Dr location.

The final conference race of the 2024 high school season went down in Nathrop this weekend. The Chalk Creek Stampede took place under the shadow of Mt. Princeton on a NORBA venue from ancient North American mountain bike history setting an epic backdrop for our Fort Collins athletes to battle it out one more time against their Platte region peers before State Championships later this month.

Send Town Bike Club will again host its popular Unicycle program this Fall.
This program introduces children and adults, alike, to unicycling and several unicycling disciplines recognized by the International Unicycling Federation (IUF) and the Unicycle Society of America (USA).
All abilities are welcome, including those with zero unicycling experience. New riders will be instructed in the fundamentals -- riding, turning, and free mounting and refining those skills through fun and engaging activities.