The League of American Bicyclists has awarded the town of Fort Collins the “Platinum” level for bicycle friendly communities. That means that this town is at the same bike friendly level as 1) Boulder (I don’t like biking in Boulder as much as the fort: Too hilly!); 2) Portland OR (There are a lot of cyclists there because of an overabundance of commuters who have lost their driving privileges); and 3) Davis, CA (Well, OK, they are decades ahead of everyone else, but who likes California anyway?)
Bike to the rails
Asad and Jimmy in front of car #21
These two were happily taking passengers from City Park to the historic Avery House and beyond (beyond being a block and a half further down Mountain Avenue) aboard the 94 year old Birney trolley. There were groups of CSU graduation parties who had time to take an historic ride before leaving for DIA on Sunday night.
Bike to the park:
Not the Yangtze River
But along Spring Creek at the College Avenue crossing there are these figures (possibly drawings on paper glued onto the concrete) that appear to be of ancient Chinese people. At least the two on the right look like depictions of Qin Warriors from the terracotta army of Xian.
Bike to Java ?
And lastly, a Javanese Gamelan Orchestra
Who were short one drummer and enlisted the trolley conductor as a last minute stand-in (He still is wearing his conductor hat)
…All on a Sunday afternoon.
The next Level is called DIAMOND. No towns in the US are that bicycle friendly… yet!
