Community Cycles--Folks that Deserve Emulation

We kicked off the ride with a wonderful party at Avery last night with some great beer, a fantastic carbo-load pasta feast,and a top notch raffle with some high end donations from the Garmin/Slipstream team, The Kitchen Upstairs, The Sink, Deuter packs, and the Boulder Rock Club among others.

The beneficiary, however, was the highlight, and that was Boulder's Community Cycles. Your Boulder hippie-type/bike culture sort of dude, Peter, was on hand to tall us a bit: Community Cycles provides re-cycled bikes and a welcoming space to learn about bicycle repair, maintenance and operation through outreach and advocacy activities. They serve a wide range of people in the Boulder community, but focus on at-risk youth, low-income individuals and work release program inmates from the county jail as well as college students and others who are interested in commuting via bicycle. In addition, Community Cycles supports schools, businesses or other organizations interested in establishing a bike fleet program. The Earn-a-Bike program lets kids volunteer at the shop for 10 hours and they walk away with a bike of their own.

These are folks that deserve emulation.