Entered on 12/12/12 at 12:12
Oh NO! Winter Bike To Work. Let’s go check out some of the breakfast spots:
Stop #1 Banana muffins and cinnamon rolls, coffee too.
Presented by ‘Branch Out Cider’ and the Ski Chicken Coop as featured in the Fort Collins Tour de COOP chicken coop bike ride which I have yet to participate. The cider company is looking for your apples!
Stop #2: Bacon Burritos!
…and some veggie burritos I didn’t try, but I’m sure they were good. Old town Spice Shop did this one, and the burritos were indeed spicy. This was located in the back parking lot of:
The OtterBox Company
They gave away a few goodies: I got an OtterBox hat and an OtterBox Bicycle bell. Otterbox donated $1.3 million to the FCMOD for their Digital Dome theater. That’s why it’s called “The Otterbox Digital Dome Theater”.
New This Year
Riders can use their smart phones to check-in at each breakfast place. Since my cell phone is ONLY A PHONE = No Camera, No Internet, No cook stove, etc., I couldn’t read this QR code as it were.
Stop # 3 from the Rio and Climate Wise
This was on Oak Street Plaza where Bloco em FoCo plays on First Fridays. Beleza!
Stop # 4 at the Food Co-op and sponsored by the Bohemian Foundation
The Food Co-op was working on some kind of theme for this bike to work day. Because it was 12/12/12 they were getting ready for the zombie apocalypse by making sure the bike riders had an ample supply of espresso cookies, java bites and gluten free oatmeal. They even had someone available for “Zombie Face Painting” in case you wanted to blend in with the zombies. ??
Stop #5 – The old standard = New Belgium Brewing with co-sponsor Ridekick
Here they had something called “Vegetarian Sausage” or apparently imitation pig scraps created by food scientists for vegetarian consumption. Actually the ‘sausage’ was not that bad. I also test-drove the new Ridekick Burley electric trailer conversion. Very nice! It would make a nice Christmas gift.
Stop # 6 In-Situ and Tastebuds
These guys seem to always have the best coffee but you have to ride the Poudre River path to get there. It’s worth it!
Stop #7 by the Bike Library and Bike Co-op
Serving oatmeal at the Happy Lucky. We’ve been to their basement for Haunted Fort Collins a while ago. It’s spooky still.
So, what about those QR codes? Well, if you had a smart phone you could have scanned in the code and by the end of the morning the bike Fort Collins folks would have collected data on your travels that might look like this:
Data from the FCGOV.COM website showing where I went on 12/12/12
Of course not having a smart phone meant that I came home after the ride and manually put the scans in. If they tracked the time, it might look like I traveled to all these places in less than 3 minutes. Ha!