Bike to Work Day and Hurricane Wilma

Tomorrow is the official bike to work day for Boulder and Denver. Please go to the link below and register for lots of prizes. Also check out the area map for all of the breakfast stations around town. Free breakfast for all! Colorado is a premiere bicycling state. To celebrate bicycling for transportation, fun and health, Colorado has designated each June as Bike Month. At the same time, Colorado joins a nationwide effort to encourage cycling novices and enthusiasts to experience the fun and freedom of safely riding a bike to work, school, errands and recreation.
Bike to Work Day Wednesday, 6/27/2007.


Hurrican Wilma Destroys Trails

“Familiarity with our surroundings often causes us to become bored with what we use everyday or envious of what others have at their disposal. Mountain bike trails are no different. All of us have thought to ourselves and said out loud that the trails where we live are not up to par with what this or that area of the country has. For those of us who are guilty of this it may be useful to put things into perspective by looking at an example of a region of the USA whose trails have been hard hit by natural disaster. For riders in southeast Florida Hurricane Wilma roared through their area and either closed trails for weeks and months or, as in the case of the trail at Quit Waters Park in Deerfield Beach, FL, were destroyed all together. Imagine an entire trail closed for good as a result of only a couple of hours of severe weather flattened over 80% of the trees in the park, amongst which weaved 5 ½ miles of twisty single track.” All one needs to validate the cliché, “you never know what you have until it’s gone,” is to read a few of the following posts from mtbr.com regarding Quit Waters Park and it will surely make us all appreciate what we have.”

Some posts from local riders on mtbr.com---

"This trail is still closed, because the trail was mostly destroyed by hurricane Wilma.The county has yet to let anyone in the park for clean-up,and there is no word yet on when this will happen.You can get futher info here http://www.clubmud.com/"

"Hello everyone! It has been two weeks since Hurricane Wilma came thru South Florida and, as we all know it destroyed all the bike trails in its path. Now, it’s up all of us to reclaim them. Oleta River, Markham Park, Amelia and Quiet Water’s trails are in need of volunteers now more then ever. There has been a good effort in the clean up process but we need more people to make it happen. So please, if all of us that ride the trails can volunteer some time & effort on the weekends, we all be riding the trails again soon."