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The North South Bikepacking race is set to roll out from Fort Collins' Lee Martinez Park at 6:00 am on July 1st. The 595-mile self-supported gravel race (similar to the CTR) with roughly  48500 feet of elevation gain will end in Trinidad, CO. The route has about 200 miles of pavement, 300 of gravel, and 15-30 miles of singletrack. Ezra Ward-Packard won the inaugural race in 2021 with a time of 3 Days 4 hours 11 mins on a slightly different course.

Bike Prom, a bike-themed event celebrating and bookending Colorado’s June Bike Month with live music, DJs, and bike movies will be held Saturday, June 25th at the Lyric Cinema beginning at 8:00 p.m. The event will also feature a silent auction and guests will have a final chance to register in a raffle to win a new e-bike, where the winner will be drawn from the stage that night.

Every June, Colorado celebrates Bike Month and here in Fort Collins, we love anything that highlights and promotes people who ride bicycles. In 2022, we're back on track with Bike to Work (or Wherever) Day, planned for Wednesday, June 22, 2022 for the 34th year.

If you're looking for a UCI ProTeam to cheer for this year, may I suggest Human Powered Health? The US-based team formally known as Rally Pro Cycling has two riders and two staff members that call Fort Collins home. All four are currently in Swisserland for the 2022 Tour de Suisse which takes place June 12th- June 19th.

Northern Colorado had 14 racers take part in the John Stenner Memorial Colorado State Time Trial Championship on Sunday in Keensburg. Eight of those riders finished in the top 3 with Charlie Mohr, Matthew Skrdla, George Simpson, and Victoria Dippold all taking wins. There were 147 racers in 2022. 241 in 2019.

Sendtown shorttrack wraps up, YGR Time Trials restart, City Street Crits set to return, new time for the Saturday Open Ride, and the RioCovery and Life Behind Bars rides return for the season.

The June version of the YGR Time Trials starts on the 7th with the Taft Hill Time Trial. This particular race will include a 40k distance for those prepping for state championships. We'll do Double Dams on the 14th and Horsetooth on the 21st.

FC Moves is hiring a part-time Program Assistant to assist in Adult Education & Outreach. The application deadline is 3:00 p.m. MT on 6/9/2022.

The 2021/2022 school year marks a decade of riding to school and taking at least one photo per day every day, for Tom Sweeney. Tom teaches 5th grade at Bennett Elementary here in Fort Collins.  I think this is the eighth year I've run his slideshow on the site and I always enjoy reliving the changing seasons through his lens.

ProVelo Bicycles has settled into its new location at the corner of Horsetooth and Shields. The former McCoy's Morning Glory location provides Greg Thornton and his staff of six (and hiring) with 4500sf of room to spread out. The space includes a commercial kitchen that Thornton is considering turning into a commissary for food trucks and an additional 1500sf that he'd like to rent out to a coffee shop or similar business.

Nathaniel Glenn Jones, 40 of Fort Collins, Colorado passed away April 16, 2022 due to side effects of a traumatic brain injury he suffered in 2018. Nathan was born in Irving, Texas to Glenn and Carol Jones on April 7, 1982.