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Heatherwood Elementary
This school in Boulder apparently has some very cool teachers and parents. …In just three years, Heatherwood Elementary’s walkers and bicyclists jumped from 12 percent to more than 43 percent of the...
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Dirty Bismark
I don’t know — is that the proper term? Sounds nasty. I rode this for the first time recently. A new twist on an old classic near Boulder.
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Rocky Flats Plutonium Contamination Map
Via http://leroymoore.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/map-rf-contam/ Low-res scan of hard copy from a relatively recent civil case, map based on Krey-Hardy study, 1970. click to enlarge That’s a very large...
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Boulder Velodrome’s Owner’s Outa Here
Employees given notice. Today (Sunday) is the last day. But there is a decent chance that the ‘drome will persist under some new ownership situation. R.I.P. Boulder Velodrome? | 303Cycling News.
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Timmy Duggan’s Nationals Power
Lotta Joules for a Timmy. click to enlarge Via Velonews: Timmy Duggan Nationals Power.
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2003 Plutonium Fire at Rocky Flats
That’s right, 2003. Toward the end of Kristen Iversen’s remarkable book, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, she provides a detailed account of a severe plutonium fire...
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Stage 6 is Where It’s At
Much of the course of the 2012 USA Pro Cycling Challenge seems like it was designed by Chambers of Commerce, not bike racing professionals. The Breck – CS stage, for instance, which begins with Hoosier...
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New Denver/Boulder bicycling guidebook coming out
Just sent it off to the publisher. A combined road and mountain bike guide with 40 full ride descriptions and a few dozen additional mini-descriptions. Best Bike Rides Denver and Boulder. Rejected...
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Bike racing is creepy
Not necessarily a positive activity in which to involve oneself. Bike riding, however, is still the best.
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Murder or Coincidence
Turns out the drunk who ran over and killed Michel Van Duym had a real psychological problem with cyclists. Looks real bad. LYONS – The driver facing charges in a crash over the weekend that killed a...
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New Paths Link Front Range Exurbs
Really fun hardpack paths. Last month, the last major segment of the Coal Creek/Rock Creek Regional Trail was completed, bringing together a 27-mile trail network that now extends from Erie to Eldorado...
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Lefthand Canyon Closed to Bikes Through April
And James Canyon. Kind of a weird move that is sure to raise some ire and mess up some plans. Boulder County has closed Lefthand Canyon and James Canyon to cyclists until May 1 while crews remove major...
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Boulder right-sizing bike-lane project moves forward, sort of
Turns out that new street treatments on Folsom will not continue through the part of town where they are most needed. A controversial plan to remove vehicle lanes to allow for wider bike lanes on four...
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Local news reporting that 600–800 street racers were out systematically blocking I-225 tonight, between Alameda and Colfax (about 2 miles of freeway in the east Denver suburbs). One night after a...
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