June 24th is Rainbows & Unicorns!

Hippy Bike Night!

Hippy Bike Night, tonight.

We will meet at 6:30p and roll out at 6:45. The weather is holding and it looks like tonight will be a great night for a bike ride!

Join us!

G'Knight Ride week rolls on with BIKE PROM! Tonight!

Bike Night is tonight! And, it's Bike Prom!

What's that mean? Bike Prom is your opportunity to put on your fancy pants and ride bikes. We'll hit a variety of traffic circles as we dance through Old Town Longmont.

Post prom will happen at 8pm at Rosalee's Pizza downtown Longmont.

Join us at 6:30pm, tonight - June 10th - as we celebrate G'Knight Ride week.

Also - don't forget to register for the G'Knight Ride coming up on Saturday, June 13th. Go to www.gkride.org to register. THANKS!

See you tonight.

rjk

Next Ride: June 3rd - Hawaiian Shirt Night!

See you Wednesday, 6/3/2015 at 6:30pm at Roosevelt Park! Can we hit an all time record? More than 240? Who knows.... May 27th we hit 145! See you next week.

Tonight's theme is RED. Wear a red shirt or something red. We'll see you at Roosevelt Park at 6:30p, rain or shine.  Our route will be the Old Town Route with a jaunt to Collyer Park.

PS - I'm looking for ideas for future themes.

Ryan

Longmont Bike Night 12th Season Launches 5/13/2015 (Tomorrow)

It's back! This year marks Bike Night's 12th season. Over the years Bike Night has grown to be not just Longmont's, not just Boulder County's but also ColoRADo's largest family friendly weekly cruiser bicycle ride.


Come join us tomorrow night at 6:30pm at Roosevelt Park, on the east end under the flagpoles. We do a family friendly safety chat between 6:30pm & 6:40 - a quick welcome and we're off riding. We will ride the Old Town West route with a hokie pokie flash mob to get things moving!

See you tomorrow night!

Wanna have fun on a bike? Wanna meet new people? Wanna do the hokie pokie?

Well here’s what it’s all about. 

Colorado’s oldest & largest weekly family-friendly cruiser ride is back! Starting May 13^th, at 6:30pm Bike Night will take to the streets of Old Town Longmont. Join us this summer to tour Longmont’s best tree lined neighborhoods and greenways!

 
2015 will mark Longmont Bike Night’s 11^th year. It’s hard to believe Bike Night has been around that long. Since 2004 more than 11,000 riders have participated in Bike Night. 

Cumulatively those riders rode more than 11,000 miles, burning more than a million calories.
 
While this sounds intense – (it's not) each ride is only about an hour. We ride approximately 6miles (sometimes a mile or two longer) burning approximately 105 calories (yes, someone strava’d a couple of rides), and we roll along at about 6 – 8mph.

If you don’t know what “strava” is – good. You’re perfect for Bike Night. Baklava is a great substitute for Strava in my humble opinion. 

May 13^th we’ll meet at Roosevelt Park under the flags at the east end of the park. A great place to park (if you’re driving) is in the RTD lot on the east end of the park off Coffman Street. 

 

Also May 13th we'll kick off the 12th Season with the Hokie Pokie! A flash mob at Martini's Bistro. Make plans now and view the Hokie Pokie on youtube - or something.

New this year we’ll have “Pre-Bike Nights” at various establishments. Our first Pre-Bike Night will happen on May 13^th at the Longs Peak Grill at Longs Peak Avenue and Main Street. Come early to hang out and chat. These pre-start points will move around as the season progresses. 

We will see you a week from Wednesday!

Here’s to another great Bike Night Season!

Mr. Bike Night  

Here's the  LINK  to the Longmont Traffic Safety Fund info page:

Apologies for an ill-spent Summer.....

This week marks the last Bike Night for the 2014 season.

The Longmont Bike Night Blog.is set as my homescreen. So every morning I see it and think to my self - "Gotta update that thing..."

Clearly, I didn't.

I know a lot of you get your BN info from this blog and I hope you accept my sincerest apologies. Next year.... will be better.

So - please join us this Wednesday for the final Bike Night. We meet at the flagpoles in Roosevelt Park at 6:30pm. Being that this is the last Bike Night we'll probably go somewhere afterward, too. So bring some cash.

Thanks for a good summer and a great Bike Night season!

Ryan

Bike Month Wrap Up!

Today marks the end of a HISTORIC coloRADo Bike Month. Read on to learn more about the awesome things you helped us do!

First the Bike Longmont Board of Directors want to send out a heartfelt THANK YOU, to everyone who took advantage of our programs, services or fun filled events this month!
  
Together we crammed: A history making City Council meeting, Oskar Blues Brewery's Burning Can, Bicycle Longmont's G'Knight Ride Left Hand Brewing Company’s Culture Jam, 5 Longmont Bike Night's, 6 Bike Valet events, 3 Saturday morning cruises, and Colorado Bike (and take your bacon) to Work Day into one month. AND, we supported the growing Kinetics at Union Reservoir.

 

During Bike Month we continued our regional activism, too! During June we helped Bike Fort Collins launch - Fort Collins' first Bike Night. They call it the Family and Bikes ride or FAB Ride for short!

We worked with Bike Carbon Valley 's Tour de Flight in Frederick to provide bike valet racks.

Bike Longmont did a fair amount of fundraising this month, too. With the help of the Colorado Beer Trail, Bootstrap Brewing Company and Left Hand Brewing Company we were able to turn beer in to bike money for our programs.

Through your participation in the G’Knight Ride we were able to raise money to support Longmont’s FIRST community based non-profit bike shop. The Longmont Bike Garage which will support an Earn-a-Bike program, bike rentals (including tag-a-longs) and the Kid’s Holiday Bike program, too.
Lastly – and possibly most importantly,- Bike Longmont made history this month.

After a year of hard work our tenacious efforts paid off. In June, Bicycle Longmont successfully created the Longmont Traffic Safety Fund.Through the support of City Council, Advocacy Advance, Bicycle Colorado, and the City Manager’s office, Longmont will have a fund that will provide ongoing funding for road safety programs to make our streets safer for cyclists, pedestrians and motorists!

Wow - That's a lot, BUT we need your help. In order to continue being successful we need more volunteers. Specifically we need volunteers to help with our Bike Vale service. Bike Valet volunteers typically enjoy connecting with the community and sometimes food & beer during brewery events. 

Bike Valet is easy and you can volunteer whenever it fits your schedule. Shifts are generally 2 hours and you're paired with a veteran, too.

We hope you'll consider helping us out. Bike Valet is Bike Longmont's most visible and substantive outreach service. If you're interested email us through info@bicyclelongmont.org.

Thanks for a great, historic Bike Month!

GKR 2014

G'KNIGHT RIDE IS TODAY!

SEE YOU THERE!

www.gkride.com

Git Yer TWANG on, Fort Collins Bike Night and GKR 2014!

Tonight's theme is Denim & Diamonds or Country & Western! Grab your #Coloradotuxedo and join us, 6:30pm Roosevelt Park near the flagpoles. Also - download the app "Glympse" to find us on the route. This app is great for finding Bike Night if you arrive late.

In other news, for all our fans in Fort Collins, Bike Night Fort Collins will launch on June 12th! Their ride's name is Families and Bikes or the FAB Ride! We're excited to be partnering with our friends if FoCo to launch this ride.

They will ride the second Thursday of each month. June's ride will meet at Spring Park in College Heights neighborhood at 6pm. Tell your friends in Fort Collins to attend.

Also - G'Knight Ride is NEXT WEEK! Are you registered? This year's band line up is AWESOME! We have the Freddy Jones Band ( check the video here), Fort Collins' THUNK and a host of other great talent. Join us June 14th at Roosevelt Park for our "Annual Celebration of Cycling".

See you tonigtht and next week!

May 21st, Bike Night will observe the National Ride of Silence.

We're asking riders to wear white t-shirts. The ride will meet at 6:30pm at Roosevelt Park near the flag poles on the east end of the park.

The ride will depart Roosevelt between 6:30 & 6:40. We will have music and carry on until 7pm. At 7pm the music will be shut off, and the rest of the ride will continue in silence.

We will pause at the top of Sunset Hill & Sunset Golf Course for a moment of silence. Then continue east through Old Town.

May 14th, 2014 we will be back, back in black, celebrating a decade of decadence! Join us at 6:30pm in Roosevelt Park near the flag pole/turnaround.

Ryan

Subtle reminder. In case anyone was wondering or had forgotten! 

See you in 4 Weeks!

Annual Party and Bike Night Returns

 I want to invite all y'all to the Bike Longmont Annual shin-dig at Left Hand Brewery tomorrow afternoon (3/16/2014) from 3-5pm.

It's going to be fun and we'll update you on what we've got going on this summer. We're going to have a great time. Join us!

One other thing, Bike Night returns 5/14/2014!

Click here for the link to the Bicycle Longmont presentation given at the Colorado Bike Summit.

TIME TO RIDE!

Football & Bikes?

Besides being sports and major pastimes for many Coloradans, Bike Longmont saw the Bronco’s win, as an opportunity to reach Bronco fans who, may or may not ride regularly.  The Orange Ride is a fun, laid back way to have fun and get a little rowdy on a Wednesday night.

There are a lot of folks who enjoy cycling and football. Bringing the two together to support the Bronco’s seemed like a good idea. Bicycle Longmont prides itself on taking a non-traditional approaches to getting more people on the road.

Since 2010 Bike Longmont added Longmont Bike Night. Since then the two have done some pretty cool things. The Orange Ride is just another in a long and fun list.  

Why craft beer. 

If you’ve followed Longmont Bike Night you know Left Hand is a favorite stop and Oskar Blues is a storied supporter of  It seemed to make sense to include Longmont’s favorite craft breweries in our ride.

Bike Night and the G’Knight Ride. Also – in an interview Payton Manning mentioned he’d have a Bud Light following the interview. Colorado is the epicenter of craft brewing in the nation.

Headlights are needed and helmets encouraged for adults and required for kids.

Route & Timing:

There will be stops along the way, but the ride IS family-friendly and free. We encourage you to bring your family to Cyclhops at 5:00pm with the ride leaving  at 5:30pm on Wednesday the 29^th. However, if you have elementary or younger children, we ask that you meet us at Roosevelt Park at 7pm. We will take a safe route along Dry Creek greenway to Twin Peaks Mall, then east to Price Road and on to Left Hand for a brief stop before climbing into Old Town. If you venture with us from Southwest Longmont the ride will easily top 15 miles.  Joining us at Roosevelt Park will put the ride easily within the range for elementary kids. We will finish before 8pm ending at Breaker’s downtown at 4^th & Main Street.

What if I can’t make it? Is anyone else doing this?

The Orange ride is more than just Longmont. Bike Longmont reached out to other social rides across Colorado. We are urging people who’ve participated in the G’Knight Ride, Longmont Bike Night, Boulder’s Happy Thursday Ride, Pueblo Cruiser Rides, Buena Vista Cruisers, and the Denver Cruiser Ride to do their own Orange Ride and publicize it through social media.

While the big game may come around every year, our team and state pride, only gets one shot at a win every now and then. If you’re into cycling and cannot make the Longmont Orange Ride, do your own thing. The next two weekends look great for biking in the cul-de-sac, downtown or to your favorite craft brewery.

How many people will show up on Wednesday the 29^th. At 7pm, Roosevelt Park?

1 more if you do, twice as many if you bring a friend!

Thanks!

The 2013 Bike Night season is over and we had a great run. We kicked off the new season with over 210 people taking part. Huge numbers continued to roll with us through June. Our June average was 187 people per ride!

What does that mean? It means Bike Night gets folks on bikes. This year we had more people participate than in any other season. Our season total was 2,405.

Through out the season we had a GoPro camera mounted on the Audio Rockit and on a number of bikes. From all that footage we cobbled together the video below. I hope you enjoy it and share it with friends.

If you're like me you've got friends who just don't quite "get" bike night. Perhaps the video will help them.

See you in 2014 on May 14th - to be exact!

Ryan

One. MORE. BIKE NIGHT!

Get out here this Wednesday night! We're 38 people away from breaking 2,400 riders this year. Don't leave us hanging!

You might wonder what the impact of 2,400 riders might be? 2,400
16,800 miles ridden
252,000 calories burned

Which is roughly equivalent to 2,117 beers or 507 cupcakes!

If your friends think Bike Night is cute - but not for them, ask 'em how they feel about cupcakes & beer!

See you tomorrow night for ONE MORE BEAUTIFUL BIKE NIGHT!

Also - If you're looking for a way to give to the flood relief effort there is a new way to do so. Oskar Blues Brewery has created a Foundation that will distribute donated funds of up to $100,000 to flood victims.

Check it out at foundation.oskarblues.com.