The bike-in-movie series has concluded for the season, and we would like to let everyone know that it was a huge success. The last movie, Back to Future, was well attended by CRBC members who rode their bikes to the movie. I bet there were 40 bikers there and probably close to a 100+ folks total. When I showed up there were people riding tandems in the field that weren't even theirs (thanks RBR).

CRBC would like to thank and recognize CRPR, Freeze Thaw, Envinity, Videon and a BIG special thanks to Keveau and Beth for putting together the Bike-In-Movie series.  The Bike-in-movie event has grown organically into a really popular family oriented community event that combines movies, parks and bikes. We like that.

If you have any ideas about special events that CRBC could help facilitate or that you would like to let the bike community know about, come to our meeting and tell us. Or you can 1. register as a user on the site, 2. go the forum section, and 3. start a discussion or comment on an ongoing discussion about your idea. 

look at all those bikes!

A new word was added to the official Danish dictionary last year. Speaking at Velo-City 2009 in Brussels, Copenhagen mayor Klaus Bondam, said “schottelkot” (bicycle congestion) entered the Danish lexicon because rush hour bike commuters in larger Danish cities sometimes wait through 2 or 3 red light cycles at major intersections. Bondam described the phenomenon as a sign of the city’s successful policy of promoting cycling and walking over car use. He went on to outline Copenhagen’s plan to alleviate bike congestion by taking more space from cars for bicycle infrastructure.

            While some city governments work for solutions to scottelkot, government is behind the source of this summer’s major impediment to bike traffic flow in College Township. Cyclists and Pedestrians have been asking why a bike path tunnel has been closed for construction for over six weeks when no work is being done in the tunnel.

News out of Jefferson County, Colorado is that the Jefferson County Commisioners are hoping to propose state legislation to allow individual counties in that state to ban bikes from roads they deem unsafe for cycling.

This cycle trap is on the ramp from westbound College Ave. to University Drive. Watch out for it, especially at night!

Bike helmets represent perhaps the highest volume of religious cycling discussion, enough so that parody sites have been erected in their honor. Helmet debate spans the globe as is evidenced by the fact that the Danish Socialist People's Party introduced compulsory helmet legislation which was then defeated in parliament.