Book a private session and you’ll get this entire experience all to yourself–and up to three additional friends or family members. You’ll enjoy more one-on-one time with the guide/instructor, more flexibility throughout the session, and a more personal experience for everyone who joins you. Price covers all costs for up to 4 people to join in this romp through the winter woods! Whether your goal is to try something new, wake up your biking legs, keep your skills fresh, or learn some new ones, this beginner friendly ride through the woods is a great introduction to the sport of fat-tire biking. You’ll be provided with Salsa Mukluk fat-tire bikes equipped with 5″ wide tires, winter specific biking gear, and tips and tricks for winter riding. Conditions vary significantly throughout the winter and we will be riding “snow or no” on bikes that allow us to enjoy mountain biking in all seasons!

Jan 29th
Feb 26th
Mar 26th

All classes take place from 9:00AM – 12:00PM

Come ride by headlights on our fantastic groomed fat bike trails. This will be a fun and moderately strenuous fat bike ride by the full moon. A light snack after riding will be provided.

Rent from our Borealis bike fleet for $10 or bring your own. Fee includes tour, headlamp, and snack.

2020 Dates:
Jan 29
Jan 30
Feb 26
Feb 27
Mar 26
Mar 27

Romp through the woods in a new way this winter! Whether your goal is to try something new, wake up your biking legs, keep your skills fresh, or learn some new ones, this beginner friendly ride through the woods is a great introduction to the sport of fat-tire biking. Salsa Mukluk fat-tire bikes equipped with 5″ wide tires and winter specific biking gear. Conditions vary significantly throughout the winter and we will be riding “snow or no” on bikes that allow us to enjoy mountain biking in all seasons!

Dates:

November: 22nd

December: 20th & 27th

January: 2nd, 8th, 16th, 24th & 31st

February: 6th, 12th, 14th, 20th & 27th

March: 7th, 13th, 20th & 28th

Click the link below for prices

Book a private session and you’ll get this entire experience all to yourself–and up to three additional friends or family members. You’ll enjoy more one-on-one time with the guide/instructor, more flexibility throughout the session, and a more personal experience for everyone who joins you. Price covers all costs for up to 4 people to join in this romp through the winter woods! Whether your goal is to try something new, wake up your biking legs, keep your skills fresh, or learn some new ones, this beginner friendly ride through the woods is a great introduction to the sport of fat-tire biking. You’ll be provided with Salsa Mukluk fat-tire bikes equipped with 5″ wide tires, winter specific biking gear, and tips and tricks for winter riding. Conditions vary significantly throughout the winter and we will be riding “snow or no” on bikes that allow us to enjoy mountain biking in all seasons!

Jan 29th
Feb 26th
Mar 26th

All classes take place from 9:00AM – 12:00PM

Come ride by headlights on our fantastic groomed fat bike trails. This will be a fun and moderately strenuous fat bike ride by the full moon. A light snack after riding will be provided.

Rent from our Borealis bike fleet for $10 or bring your own. Fee includes tour, headlamp, and snack.

2020 Dates:
Jan 29
Jan 30
Feb 26
Feb 27
Mar 26
Mar 27

Romp through the woods in a new way this winter! Whether your goal is to try something new, wake up your biking legs, keep your skills fresh, or learn some new ones, this beginner friendly ride through the woods is a great introduction to the sport of fat-tire biking. Salsa Mukluk fat-tire bikes equipped with 5″ wide tires and winter specific biking gear. Conditions vary significantly throughout the winter and we will be riding “snow or no” on bikes that allow us to enjoy mountain biking in all seasons!

Dates:

November: 22nd

December: 20th & 27th

January: 2nd, 8th, 16th, 24th & 31st

February: 6th, 12th, 14th, 20th & 27th

March: 7th, 13th, 20th & 28th

Click the link below for prices

A tranquil visit to pre-season Carter Lake.

Map, cue sheet, start venue, and other details at Colorado Brevet Series (http://www.rmccrides.com/brevets.htm) – click on the schedule link.

Due to insurance requirements, you must be an RMCC member to participate in this ride. You can sign up (or renew) online (https://www.rockymountaincyclingclub.com/rmcc-membership-application-form) or at the ride. If you want to receive RUSA credit for this ride, you must be a current Randonneurs USA member (visit http://www.rusa.org for more information).

You must also follow the randonneuring Rules for Riders (https://rusa.org/pages/rulesForRiders), including taking a control card and having it validated at the checkpoints. Covid-19 precautions will be in effect. Please bring your approved mask and social distancing will take place.

Sign in starts at 8:45 am

Departure PROMPTLY at 9:30 am.

The Spring (third) Stage is on! We ask that everyone observe all the safety recommendations when using the parks. The extended period is to allow participants to spread their rides out even more. See Rules page for more info.

The Four Seasons of Horsetooth Mountain Bike Challenge is a grass-roots un-event with no entry fees and no real start times and is ridden on the two solstices and two equinoxes in Horsetooth Mountain Park and Lory State Park. By being required to complete at least three seasonal stages, we hope it encourages you to come ride if your schedule doesn’t permit on any given stage. The course is designed to offer what we think are the best sections of trail in our backyard. The course should take about 2-3 hours. Had fun in the winter? Bring a friend for the spring stage! Don’t own a fancy team kit or 20lb race bike? Neither do we! Come ride for the fun and challenge of completing all four events! Check out the rules in the link below.

• Summer – June 19-22, 2020
• Autumn & Winter – check website

A plains foray in Boulder, Weld and Larimer Counties, visiting Kersey and Hudson.

Lighting and reflective gear are REQUIRED.

Map, cue sheet, start venue, and other details at Colorado Brevet Series (http://www.rmccrides.com/brevets.htm) – click on the schedule link.

Due to insurance requirements, you must be an RMCC member to participate in this ride. You can sign up (or renew) online (https://www.rockymountaincyclingclub.com/rmcc-membership-application-form) or at the ride. If you want to receive RUSA credit for this ride, you must be a current Randonneurs USA member (visit http://www.rusa.org for more information).

You must also follow the randonneuring Rules for Riders (https://rusa.org/pages/rulesForRiders), including taking a control card and having it validated at the checkpoints. Covid-19 precautions will be in effect. Please bring your approved mask and social distancing will take place.

Sign in starts at 7:00 am

Departure PROMPTLY at 8:00 am.

Scenic climbs over Horsetooth Reservoir.

Map, cue sheet, start venue, and other details at Colorado Brevet Series (http://www.rmccrides.com/brevets.htm) – click on the schedule link.

Due to insurance requirements, you must be an RMCC member to participate in this ride. You can sign up (or renew) online (https://www.rockymountaincyclingclub.com/rmcc-membership-application-form) or at the ride. If you want to receive RUSA credit for this ride, you must be a current Randonneurs USA member (visit http://www.rusa.org for more information).

You must also follow the randonneuring Rules for Riders (https://rusa.org/pages/rulesForRiders), including taking a control card and having it validated at the checkpoints. Covid-19 precautions will be in effect. Please bring your approved mask and social distancing will take place.

Sign in starts at 8:45 am

Departure PROMPTLY at 9:30 am.

A Black Forest excursion straddling the Palmer Divide.

Map, cue sheet, start venue, and other details at Colorado Brevet Series (http://www.rmccrides.com/brevets.htm) – click on the schedule link.

Due to insurance requirements, you must be an RMCC member to participate in this ride. You can sign up (or renew) online (https://www.rockymountaincyclingclub.com/rmcc-membership-application-form) or at the ride. If you want to receive RUSA credit for this ride, you must be a current Randonneurs USA member (visit http://www.rusa.org for more information).

You must also follow the randonneuring Rules for Riders (https://rusa.org/pages/rulesForRiders), including taking a control card and having it validated at the checkpoints. Covid-19 precautions will be in effect. Please bring your approved mask and social distancing will take place.

Sign in starts at 7:00 am

Departure PROMPTLY at 8:00 am.

Through Masonville, over Horsetooth Reservoir, up Poudre Canyon, then up to Stove Prairie, returning via Masonville.

Map, cue sheet, start venue, and other details at Colorado Brevet Series (http://www.rmccrides.com/brevets.htm) – click on the schedule link.

Due to insurance requirements, you must be an RMCC member to participate in this ride. You can sign up (or renew) online (https://www.rockymountaincyclingclub.com/rmcc-membership-application-form) or at the ride. If you want to receive RUSA credit for this ride, you must be a current Randonneurs USA member (visit http://www.rusa.org for more information).

You must also follow the randonneuring Rules for Riders (https://rusa.org/pages/rulesForRiders), including taking a control card and having it validated at the checkpoints. Covid-19 precautions will be in effect. Please bring your approved mask and social distancing will take place.

Sign in starts at 7:00 am

Departure PROMPTLY at 8:00 am.

You don’t need more nerve or more experience; you need to learn the correct techniques and practice them. MTB skills aren’t reserved for special people.

You can learn the skills and drills to master those skills by spending 3 days in his proven and structured skills course.

Gene will teach you the physical and mental skills on how to ride balanced, efficiently, fast and smooth. He also teaches drills for each skill so you can practice after the camp and master these skills and get you riding to your full potential.

He’s had the pleasure of coaching this Skills Course to thousands of riders just like you. From advanced beginners like 80-year-old Leadville 100-belt-buckle earner Fred Schmid, to quite a few National and World Champions. Now it’s your turn!

20 Years of coaching experience have given him an Effective, Proven, Guaranteed, Structured and Drill based curriculum.

This is an intense learning experience.

If you truly want to get better & put in the work, no-one cares more about your progress than Gene does!

Upcoming Dates:

→ April 23-25, Fruita CO, Women’s MTB Skills Course

→ June 18-20, Durango CO, MTB Skills Course

→ June 25-27, Durango CO, Downhill/Enduro Skills Course

→ July 9-11, Winter Park/ Fraser Mountain CO, Women’s MTB Skills Course

→ July 23-25, Winter Park/Fraser Mountain CO, MTB Skills Course

You don’t need more nerve or more experience; you need to learn the correct techniques and practice them. MTB skills aren’t reserved for special people.

You can learn the skills and drills to master those skills by spending 3 days in his proven and structured skills course.

Gene will teach you the physical and mental skills on how to ride balanced, efficiently, fast and smooth. He also teaches drills for each skill so you can practice after the camp and master these skills and get you riding to your full potential.

He’s had the pleasure of coaching this Skills Course to thousands of riders just like you. From advanced beginners like 80-year-old Leadville 100-belt-buckle earner Fred Schmid, to quite a few National and World Champions. Now it’s your turn!

20 Years of coaching experience have given him an Effective, Proven, Guaranteed, Structured and Drill based curriculum.

This is an intense learning experience.

If you truly want to get better & put in the work, no-one cares more about your progress than Gene does!

Upcoming Dates:

→ April 23-25, Fruita CO, Women’s MTB Skills Course

→ June 18-20, Durango CO, MTB Skills Course

→ June 25-27, Durango CO, Downhill/Enduro Skills Course

→ July 9-11, Winter Park/ Fraser Mountain CO, Women’s MTB Skills Course

→ July 23-25, Winter Park/Fraser Mountain CO, MTB Skills Course

We will be celebrating our 25th Anniversary next spring, May 7-9, 2021 with the “REDUX” of the Fruita Fat Tire Festival.
REGISTRATION FOR FESTIVAL & DEMO PASSES and EXHIBITORS IS OPEN AND AVAILABLE on imATHLETE! Our site will be updated in the next few months with all the fun activities planned for our “REDUX”!!!

A NOTE FROM OUR FOUNDER

25 years ago, the first Fruita Fat Tire Festival marked the emergence of the sports newest Mountain Bike destination. Since 1996 we have built a community of amazing people around the little MTB town of Fruita Colorado. We thank you all so much for your enduring friendship and support since. We have faced challenges of weather and worldwide worry before but never quite like this. As a celebration of a quarter of a century of singletrack trails we had a silent celebration to honor the safety of our people, our community and our world by postponing this years celebration. We will be using the upcoming year to fashion a 25th Anniversary US Bank Fruita Fat Tire Festival “REDUX” like none we have seen before. Thank You for being a part of this story, be safe and we will see you again soon as we make this saga a tale of the past.

You don’t need more nerve or more experience; you need to learn the correct techniques and practice them. MTB skills aren’t reserved for special people.

You can learn the skills and drills to master those skills by spending 3 days in his proven and structured skills course.

Gene will teach you the physical and mental skills on how to ride balanced, efficiently, fast and smooth. He also teaches drills for each skill so you can practice after the camp and master these skills and get you riding to your full potential.

He’s had the pleasure of coaching this Skills Course to thousands of riders just like you. From advanced beginners like 80-year-old Leadville 100-belt-buckle earner Fred Schmid, to quite a few National and World Champions. Now it’s your turn!

20 Years of coaching experience have given him an Effective, Proven, Guaranteed, Structured and Drill based curriculum.

This is an intense learning experience.

If you truly want to get better & put in the work, no-one cares more about your progress than Gene does!

Upcoming Dates:

→ April 23-25, Fruita CO, Women’s MTB Skills Course

→ June 18-20, Durango CO, MTB Skills Course

→ June 25-27, Durango CO, Downhill/Enduro Skills Course

→ July 9-11, Winter Park/ Fraser Mountain CO, Women’s MTB Skills Course

→ July 23-25, Winter Park/Fraser Mountain CO, MTB Skills Course

Bike Travel Weekend and Bike Your Park Day are fun and easy, and they help get people outside and on bikes. There’s no cost to you or your participants (unless you want to charge a fee to participants to cover your costs). The initiatives help create community connections, promote destinations, and can boost local economies. You can participate in Bike Travel Weekend and Bike Your Park Day through your own programming or you can partner with other groups.

There are two ways to be part of Bike Travel Weekend & Bike Your Park Day:

1. Plan and register a Bike Travel Weekend trip at BikeTravelWeekend.org and/or register a Bike Your Park Day ride at BikeYourParkDay.org. Registration, planning resources, and inspiration are available for free. Plus, registrants will receive stickers for their group and will be entered to win a bike and Amtrak tickets to Glacier National Park.
https://www.adventurecycling.org/resources/bike-travel-weekend/register-a-bike-overnight/

2. Promote Bike Travel Weekend and Bike Your Park Day to your customers, visitors, and friends. Visit the “Promote” pages at BikeTravelWeekend.org and BikeYourParkDay.org for sharing resources and a downloadable Toolkit with resources to help you plan your rides or just encourage others to participate.
https://www.adventurecycling.org/resources/bike-travel-weekend/promote-your-bike-overnight/

Adventure Cycling also has Bike Travel Weekend and Bike Your Park Day sponsorship opportunities to help you promote your brand or destination. Please contact me at [email protected] or (406) 532-2743 if you are interested in sponsorship or if you have any questions about Bike Travel Weekend and Bike Your Park Day. I would be happy to walk you through the planning and promotional resources and registration process. I can also send additional stickers and postcards for your audiences.

I hope to “see” you out on the roads and trails on June 5 – 7 for Bike Travel Weekend and September 29 for Bike Your Park Day. Enjoy your ride! Bike Travel Weekend, inspires thousands of people throughout the world to go on a one- or two-night bike trip to a campground, hotel or B&B on the same weekend. Registration, planning and promotional resources are free at BikeTravelWeekend.org.
https://www.adventurecycling.org/resources/bike-travel-weekend/

CO BIKE EXPO AT EROCK

The 6th Annual Colorado Bike Expo will be returning to Castle Rock, CO at the Elephant Rock Cycling Festival!

The FREE two-day expo and festival is anchored by a long-standing Colorado tradition that brings between 5,000 – 6,000 cycling enthusiasts to town, not to mention their friends and family. Expect BMX shows, learn to ride clinics, a cycling fashion show, live music, food & beer, 65+ exhibitors and more!

Please mark your calendars and join us!

The Four Seasons of Horsetooth Mountain Bike Challenge is a grass-roots un-event with no entry fees and no real start times and is ridden on the two solstices and two equinoxes in Horsetooth Mountain Park and Lory State Park. By being required to complete at least three seasonal stages, we hope it encourages you to come ride if your schedule doesn’t permit on any given stage. The course is designed to offer what we think are the best sections of trail in our backyard. The course should take about 2-3 hours. Had fun in the Spring? Bring a friend for the Summer stage! Don’t own a fancy team kit or 20lb race bike? Neither do we! Come ride for the fun and challenge of completing all four events! Check out the rules in the link below.

Visit the website for the Autumn, Winter and Spring event dates.

5th Annual Junior Crested Butte Bike Week

For the fifth year in a row, we will be throwing down the BIGGEST KIDS’ BIKE PARTY ON THE PLANET right here in Crested Butte, ColoRADo – the birthplace of mountain biking!! New for 2021, Junior Bike Week will be a FULL WEEK of events to celebrate MORE KIDS ON BIKES and we’d love to have you join us! We have activities happening all week long for kids of all ages and abilities with everything from trail work to clinics to ICE CREAM…and yes, we did say ICE CREAM!!

 Town of Crested Butte, Colorado, venues vary with events

Additional Event Information:

All proceeds from this event will benefit the Crested Butte Development Team, a local  non-profit 501(c)3 organization that provides a fun and safe environment for young cyclists to develop skills and passion that last a lifetime.

Hundreds of American communities have been successful in increasing bicycle commuting by providing Bike to Work Week and Bike to Work Day events. Bike to Work Day is June 23rd STATEWIDE!

40% of all trips in the U.S. are less than two miles, making bicycling a feasible and fun way to get to work. With increased interest in healthy, sustainable and economic transportation options, it’s not surprising that, from 2000 to 2013, the number of bicycle commuters in the U.S. grew by more than 62 percent.

Click the link below for more information on registering, stations/stops, Bike to Work Day T-shirts, creating a group ride and materials.

You don’t need more nerve or more experience; you need to learn the correct techniques and practice them. MTB skills aren’t reserved for special people.

You can learn the skills and drills to master those skills by spending 3 days in his proven and structured skills course.

Gene will teach you the physical and mental skills on how to ride balanced, efficiently, fast and smooth. He also teaches drills for each skill so you can practice after the camp and master these skills and get you riding to your full potential.

He’s had the pleasure of coaching this Skills Course to thousands of riders just like you. From advanced beginners like 80-year-old Leadville 100-belt-buckle earner Fred Schmid, to quite a few National and World Champions. Now it’s your turn!

20 Years of coaching experience have given him an Effective, Proven, Guaranteed, Structured and Drill based curriculum.

This is an intense learning experience.

If you truly want to get better & put in the work, no-one cares more about your progress than Gene does!

Upcoming Dates:

→ April 23-25, Fruita CO, Women’s MTB Skills Course

→ June 18-20, Durango CO, MTB Skills Course

→ June 25-27, Durango CO, Downhill/Enduro Skills Course

→ July 9-11, Winter Park/ Fraser Mountain CO, Women’s MTB Skills Course

→ July 23-25, Winter Park/Fraser Mountain CO, MTB Skills Course