Thursday Night Ride #2 September 9 - Neon Colors

THE RIDE THEME IS NEON COLORS.

Thursday September 9th

Dress neon. Glow neon. BE neon. Do it.

Rides meet at 7pm every Thursday.

Meet at the intersection of 10th avenue and 20th st. (between the University Center and Wiebking Hall)

NEW ROUTE EVERY WEEK!

This week's ride will be almost entirely on bike lanes. It will be a bit shorter. It will be very casual.

We will strive to keep the ride on well lit streets.
ROUTE WILL BE POSTED SOON

For your own safety, PLEASE bring a helmet and lights.

We should have some demo lights from the Roubaix bike shop and may be selling some.

Remember: these rides are on public streets. We will be sharing some traffic riding safety info on the ride.

New Bike Park photos

New photos from the bike park! The bike park has about 2 miles of singletrack, a plethora of obstacles, and a new dirt jump line....check it out! 65th avenue and 20th street, directly behind the Farr Library and surrounding the baseball complex.

Upcoming Trail Work

Everyone,

Here is an update on the bike park and what needs to be done.

Trail Status

All the trails are cut out and being ridden. Mountain bikers seem to like the flow of the trails and lay out. Nate and I spoke with some guys who did about 3 laps on the trails. I finally hit the entire trail system on Saturday morning and I think they are pretty fun trails. Fast and flowing some sections need to be reworked, but for the most part they are very nice.

We have the trails marked as blue or black. Obstacles are being placed slowly but surely.

If you are not able to work on the trails, come out and ride them. Riding them helps keep the weeds down, defines the trails, and will pack in the obstacles that are currently placed.

Future Build Dates

We will be taking this week off (Adam may be working on Thursday and Saturday, but he will email the group if he is planning on working).

We have not had much luck with people coming out on Thursday evening to work so we will try some Tuesday nights for a change. We will start working a little earlier and quit a little earlier (mosquitos are merciless as the sun sets).

Thursday, July 1: 9:00am until ?- I will be out there! (Adam)

Tuesday, July 6: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm (new time to avoid mosquito onslaught at dusk)

Saturday, July 10: 8 am - 1:00 pm (new time to avoid heat in afternoon)

Sunday, July 11: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm (new time to avoid heat in afternoon)

Tuesday, July 13: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Saturday, July 17: 8 am - 1:00 pm

Sunday, July 18: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Tuesday, July 20: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Saturday, July 24: 8 am - 1:00 pm

Sunday, July 25: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Work That Needs to Done

Bill Andrews sugggested providing a list of things that need to be done so if people wanted to come out to work, but can't work on a work day, what can/should they do. Here is a list of things that people can do independently on the trails.

1) Bring a chain saw and cut about a dozen railroad ties into smaller sections about 18 - 24 inches wide. These sections can/will be used as obstacles across the singletrack trails.

2) Haul rock or railroad ties (or combination of) to various sections of the trails and place them in the trails to make obstacles. You will need a wheelbarrow to do this and a shovel. You can see examples that we have made already on the trails.

3) Ride the trails on your bike then rework corners that are too sharp or need to be banked to make the trail flow better.

4) Bring a weed eater/weed whacker to cut the weed growth back along the edges of the trails (especially on northeast section of the trail system)

All of these activities, people can do on their own with no other supervision or directions. Just going out and riding the trails helps out greatly. Get out and ride, if you can't do anything else.

Cold brews will be furnished at the Tuesday night work sessions and some type of food will be available at the weekend work sessions.

Also if you have a Facebook account, follow the Greeley Trails and Open Space Foundation and see all the photos of the work days.

Bryce Kyburz

Trails, upcoming events!

Hello everyone!
It's been a busy couple of months lately, and there's a lot to show for it. The trails are coming along well, though we need your help to finish the work. We have the main trail done, which is an 8 foot wide walking/running/riding trail. The intermediate singletrack trail is mostly done, but we still need to put the obstacles in...the advanced trail is in need of the most work, with only about 25% finished. If you all put in just a few hours of work, we could have this area finished and fully ready to ride VERY soon!

The trails are located by the intersection of west 20th street and 65th avenue, between Farr Library and the baseball fields.

Upcoming work days are:
Thursday, June 10: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Saturday, June 12: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Sunday, June 13: Noon - 4:00 pm
Thursday, June 17: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Saturday, June 19: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

To register for volunteering, click here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/greeleytrails

The registration process only takes about 2 minutes. We need you to register so we can log all of the hours of volunteer work put into the area!

I hope to see you all out there.

Also: Keep your eyes and ears open for new events. I'm thinking some late night rides, movie nights, and something really special for this summer. RIDE ON!

-Adam

Trail building update and events!

Happy Saturday everyone!

First, the main, wide path at the new natural area is DONE! Ready for cruising, walking, running, whatever! Also, the blue (intermediate) singletrack trail is very near complete, and is certainly rideable if you use the main path in a short section.

If you haven't been to the trails yet, you can access the area from the Farr Library (20th street and just east of 65th ave), park there and walk or ride up to the wide cement path parallel to 20th street. Head west and you will see the wide, main path going into the meadow to the right. The blue trail branches off from the path very early on. You will be able to ride it, though for a bit you may have to use the main path as the trail is not entirely finished.

You may also access the trails by going down 65th avenue from 20th street and taking a right into the neighborhood. There is a small circular pulloff and obvious cement trail that begins there. Walk or ride up this trail toward the bridge and again, you will see the main path. The blue path branches off the path to both the right and left. It is currently unmarked, but is mostly finished and fun!

We had some motivated folks out on Thursday night working on the blue trail; thanks to Nate, Chris, Scott, Cameron, and Abby, you all put in some hard work!

We have some upcoming trail work days, and we need your help! The community is making this happen, and we need you, dear reader, to do your best in donating your time if you're at all interested! This is an amazing area...please give us your effort to make it accessible and fun for everyone! You can come for any amount of time, from an hour to all day.

Here is a list of the future build dates. As always, if you can't work the entire time - no problem. One hour of help is better than no help. Help out if you can. Please register for the dates that you can help at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/greeleytrails You need to register again if you have registered for past build dates. It takes about 3 minutes to get registered.

Thursday, June 3: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Saturday, June 5: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Sunday, June 6: Noon - 4:00 pm
Thursday, June 10: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Saturday, June 12: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Sunday, June 13: Noon - 4:00 pm
Thursday, June 17: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Saturday, June 19: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Again, the address to get registered is http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/greeleytrails

I look forward to seeing you there!

UPCOMING TRAILBUILDING

Everyone,

Here is a list of the upcoming work days. You can register by going to

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/greeleytrails. It is importnat to sign up so we will know how many are coming, what tools people are bringing, how food and water to have on hand and to plan the work on the trails.

Saturday, May 8: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Thursday, May 13: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Thursday, May 20: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Saturday, May 22: 9:00 - 3:00 pm

Sunday: May 23: noon - 4:00 pm

Thursday, May 27: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Saturday, May 29: 9:00 - 3:00 pm (possibly)

Sunday: May 23: noon - 4:00 pm (possibly)

8 of us kicked out almost 1,800 feet of trail last Saturday. If we get double the number of people and work a few more hours on Saturday, we could get a tremendous amount finished in one day. Come help if you have time available.

Please forward this information to your cycling friends, neighbors, co-workers, listservs or other interested people.

Thank you and we hope to see many of you on Saturday!

Bryce and Adam

TRAILS! YAY! We've cut 1800 feet so far....

The trails are becoming a reality. Sorry for the delay, but there were some details that had to be worked out with the town. We found out only days ago that the town has given a full green light to the project. Thanks to the hard work and perseverance of many people ( and a HUGE vote of thanks to Bryce Kyburz for all of his ongoing work ) the trails and natural area in west Greeley is a GO. We have begun to cut trail...and will be holding organized trail days as well as impromptu, short notice work sessions. Bryce measured out the singletrack trail that was cut on Saturday, and we have about 1800 feet (that's about 1/3 mile) and we're nowhere near done.

We'd love for you to get involved!

To register for volunteering, visit this link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/greeleytrails

or for further questions, email GreeleyRevolution@gmail.com