Thanks to the 208 riders! Next week we celebrate Teachers!

Thanks to the 208 riders who helped us kick off the 13th season of Bike Night, lastnight! Next week we will celebrate our teachers who help make Bike Night awesome! However, we totally understand if there aren't many teachers on the ride. #lastdayofschool #schoolsout

ANND........ We're BACK, Baby!

It's back! This year marks Bike Night's 13th 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 Wednesday 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 to get things moving!

See you tomorrow night!

End of Another Great Season... Lets RALLY!

Last Bike Night: Theme Costume Cruiser Ride!

  And so another great Bike Night season comes to a close....  This season saw 4 straight Wednesdays of rain through June, blazing hot sun in July and record attendance through out.

Things turned around for Bike Night this year. Our average ride increased from 89 last year to 116 people per ride this year. Causing us to surpass 2014's total by more than 530 riders. Together we road 15,533 miles and set a new record (12 weeks) for the most rides over 100.

In total 2,219 people attended Bike Night 2015.

Are you counting calories? So are we! After biking 15,533 miles we collectively burned 481,523 calories, OR we burned 160 lbs of fat.

Unfortunately Mr. Bike Night had a beer or two following each ride - so he burned 150 calories per ride but consumed 400, calories. Doh.

So in the end we burried 2014 as the most dismal year in Bike Night history, and gave 2013 a good run for its money. We could beat 2013's season total but we'd need 200+ people to ride on Wednesday, September 23rd.  Which probably won't happen - but it could.

Speaking of getting people riding. Bicycle Longmont has assembled a pretty sweet day of cycling, We're calling it BIKEtoberfest. We have rides for the whole family and for the adults in the house, too.

The hallmark ride is the 32mile Rally Ride. The Rally Ride was first put together as a possible "long" route for the 2015 G'Knight Ride. Unfortunately due to timing - we weren't able to include it.

However NOW, we're rolling it out.

  

 The Rally Ride circumnavigates Longmont (meaning it goes around the entire city). We call it the Rally Ride because..... it's the R-ide A-round L-ongmont.

The Rally Ride is put together in the spirit of the Boulder B360 and B180. These rides have been offered in Boulder for years. They were created to kick off Biking and Walking month in Boulder. The Boulder B360 takes place in June each year.

Our Rally Ride - which we hope - will become an annual day of riding, has several lower mileage options. The Rally Ride is about 32 miles, the North Loop (north of the St. Vrain, generally) is 22 miles, The South Loop - (South of the St. Vrain) is 11 miles. We've also created the Lake Mac Loop (12 miles) and a shorter family friendly cruise to Golden Ponds (6 miles).

A day of riding wouldn't be complete with out partner rides, too.

Longmont's own Pink Pedals will be there leading a ride to view public art installations all over town.

Pedals & Pints, along with the Colorado Beer Trail are teaming up for a Craft Beer tour.

And Bicycle Longmont will be on hand leading a community bike rodeo. Kids and adults can participate in various activities at the bike rodeo. Some of these activities include a Fix a Flat clinic and we'll provide our Quick Guide to Family Riding. For the kids they'll get to practice, dodging rocks, quick stop, and work on other bike handling skills.

Shoes & Brews at 63 Boston Avenue (near Budget Home Center) is our home base. BIKEmonters can leave from their homes, jump on the route and ride, or join us starting at 3pm. The Bike Rodeo starts at 1pm

The brewery tour begins earlier at 1pm at Shoes & Brews. A map is provided below or "here" for you to download and print.

Thanks for a great year and we'll see you at BIKEtoberfest riding the Rally Ride or somewhere on down the trail!

PIRATES!

We have a couple fun things in store for you this week!

First, this week's theme is Pirates!

Secondly - We're going to set sail for Oskar Blues' Tasty Weasel. We'll do a quick tour of the Historic Westside then begin our voyage to Oskar Blues.

Oskar Blues and the Can'd Aid Foundation are showing Rider & the Wolf beginning at 8pm Wednesday night. The screening is a fundraiser for the Can'd Aid Foundation. Tickets are $10 and limited to 100 viewers.

See you Wednesday!

Red, White & YOU!

Have you been to Bike Night yet this summer? No?

Join us this week. Our rides have a great family-friendly vibe, great for visiting family and friends. Come check us out.

Bike Night leaves Roosevelt Park (910 Longs Peak Ave) at 6:45pm every Wednesday.

Bring the kids earlier for a bike safety talk, where we discuss how to safely ride our bikes on the street, in a group or just as a family.

As I like to say - it's fun, it's free, and it's totally Longmont.

Wear Red, White &/or Blue this week!

See you Wednesday.

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!