Pizza Party

Are you available to enjoy FREE PIZZA and help stuff Goodie Bags for the GJ Off-Road on Thursday, August 22 from 6-8pm?

RSVP online at: http://grandjunctionoffroadvolunteers.com/ 
Or contact the Volunteer Coordinator, Biz Collins, directly at biz@grandjunctionoffroadvolunteers.com or 970 433 6388.

The Grand Junction Off-Road endurance mountain bike event, festival and concert is coming this Labor Day weekend! This inaugural event really has the potential to shift our community in a positive direction, but it needs your help and the help of other volunteers to pull it off.

There is a spectrum of opportunities to help during the Off-Road Event, Festival and Concert! 

Friday, August 30

• Set-Up Expo, Start/Finish Line and Stage; 6am-12p on Main Street
• Pro Packet Pickup; 10am-2pm at Two Rivers Convention Center
• Amateur Rider Packet Pick-Up; 12-9pm on Main Street
• Criterion set-up at 4pm (Clunker Crit starts at 6pm and Pro Crit is at 6:15pm) downtown

Saturday, August 31

• Start/Finish Line; hand out wine glasses to amateur finishers and wrangle riders
• Concert; 10am-8pm free for the community!
• Course Marshal & Aid Station out along Little Park Road and the course

Sunday, September 1

• Start/Finish Line; hand out wine glasses to the pro finishers
• Kids Ride; registration, course marking, chaperoning, and Popsicle distribution

 

Sign up online at: http://grandjunctionoffroadvolunteers.com/

Cycling Commuter Challenge Winners

Grand Junction Economic Partnership (GJEP) was the Cycling Commuter Challenge winners for 2013. 

GJEP had 100% employee participation and 100% style as they pedaled throughout Bike to Work Month.

Camera Skills

Lee Gelatt was kind enough to photograph and share his Bike To Work Day downtown breakfast pictures.  Enjoy.


Thanks for supporting BTWD, Mesa County Commissioner Rose Pugliese!

 Have you noticed the major golden presence? Those are Mesa County employees, who had 79 people bike to breakfast and back to work en masse! 

Kaitlin Lubeley from Kannah Creek and Edgewater, another local business who supported BTWD 2013.  Thanks Kaitlin & Kannah crew!!
 Ilana is sporting a hip and visible version of the Bike Month tee shirt.  What style. 

Nice helmets, ladies!


Like what you've seen? Check out Lee's website at www.LeeGelattPhotography.com.

Bike to Work Day 2013

We had over 300 people bike-in for breakfast yesterday between the Horizon Drive and City Hall kiosks!!!  Among the impressive groups to bicycle-train in, 79 Mesa County Health Department employees wearing golden Bike Month shirts arrived en masse. 

That was a fun-filled month of free bike classes, rides, food and prizes, and it could not have been possible without our local organizations and businesses.  Please see below for a list of 2013 Bike Month sponsors to tell them thank you and support their business.  And thank YOU for joining the fun!

Mesa County Health Department

Rocky Mountain Health Plans

Crossroads to Health & Fitness, Inc.

Horizon Drive Business Improvement District

Rocky Mountain Tops

Kannah Creek Brewery & Edgewater Tap
Pablo's Pizza

Chomp's Deli

All of our local bike shops:

The Bike Shop

Bicycle Outfitters

Board & Buckle

Brown Cycles

Palisade Rapid Creek Cycles

Grassroots Cycles

Ruby Canyon

Please sir, may I have some more bike lanes to free-wheel on?

Get Your Voice Heard!

An Urban Trails planning document is up for adoption and we need YOUR influence to improve bicycling conditions in our valley.  To see the Grand Valley Trails updated Master Plan go to http://rtpo.mesacounty.us/template.aspx?id=14444.

If you support the development of More Bike Lanes, Sidewalks and urban Recreational Trails to free-wheel on, PLEASE contact your County Planning Department at (970) 244-1636 or plandevservices@mesacounty.us and let them know you want Mesa County to support the updated Grand Valley Trails Master Plan.

GJ Shares the Road

GJ Shares the Road campaign has recently launched.  We have free “GJ Shares the Road” bumper stickers and Rules of the Road wallet cards available to mail to you.  Please send your request to grandvalleybikes@gmail.com.

Thanks Pablo's Pizza!

Bike to Work Week!

June 24-30th, 2013

Ride your bike to GJ Pablo's, purchase one slice and get your second slice FREE!

Pizza of the Week:
Unicorn Lovin'