We had another great time at TDF Fort Collins, our third time being there at TDF. We took a tour of the New Belguim Brewery. One of the other couples from Wichita did the tour of Budwieser, they had a good time. Rode to downtown/oldtown, to eat at local resturants, and checkout shops and galleries. Friday night was their art gallery crawl, with galleries open late.
One of the galleries, the Art Lab, had an Art of the Bike show, this show featured Fort Collins bicycle frame builders. There were bamboo bikes by Panda, steel frame cruiser/commuter bikes by BlackSheep, and some electric bikes by Runabout, a jet bike and several other cool bikes and bicycle art . When we first walked in the Art Lab, I noticed a photo on the wall, of a guy in TDF costume and bike, IT WAS ME, from last year, wearing a Fat Tire beer jet pack the I made, and was on my RRBBO4 bike the Star Liner. We met Josh with Runabout and he took us outside to show his electric trike, this trike has been clocked at over 72 mph on a 1/8 th mile oval!! He set on the trike ( two front wheels, one in back is powered ) held the front brakes and did a burnout , smoked the back tire for 30 seconds or so,cool . Our bikes, we had the Beer Bike and the Star Chief, parked out front of the gallery and they got a lot of attention, too.
Then Saturday riding with 15,000 other bicycle freaks was great. New Belgium Brewery/TDF/Fort Collins is a great place to be on the labor day weekend, make plans to be there next year, we will.
