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Tour de Fat: Legendary as Ever

by Tim Wooten | Aug 31, 2023 | Bicycle Advocacy , Bike Month , Community Rides , Events , More Bikes | 0 comments

Picture this: the sun was shining, the air was crisp, and Mountain Avenue was transformed into a swirling vortex of color and costumes. Bicycles of all shapes and sizes were decked out in streamers, balloons, and the “occasional” Barbie themed. Yes, you read that right – Barbie was a legitimate fashion statement at this event. It was a day when ordinary bicycles became works of art, and riders became larger-than-life characters.

The Tour de Fat was more than just an opportunity to don outlandish costumes and embarrass your inner kid – it was a chance to give back to the community. Every year, proceeds from this whimsical wonderland go to four non-profits: Bike Fort Collins, Overland Biking Association, the Fort Collins Bike Co-Op and Send Town Bike Cub, on a mission to make biking in this community better, one pedal stroke at a time. So, donning an 80’s leotard while cycling around town wasn’t just a fashion statement; it was a statement of support for a worthy cause.

The bike parade was undoubtedly the crown jewel of the event. Imagine a parade of bicycles, each one helmed by a character straight out of a fantastical world. From pirates to under water sea creatures, Ken and Barbie to sassy disco dancers, the creativity knew no bounds.

But the parade was just the tip of the handlebars. Tour de Fat included a medley of activities from the bike pit, where coordination was key and laughter was inevitable, to the circus show on the main stage that kept the audience in amazement. New Belgium’s grounds were a smorgasbord of delights for the senses. Food trucks lined the back, live bands jammed on the main stage, DJ’s out front, inviting attendees to groove, twirl, and even a dance-off to win a new bike.

The magic of the Tour de Fat was that it wasn’t just a one-day spectacle. It was a reminder of the power of community, the importance of giving back, and the sheer joy that comes from embracing your inner child and letting your imagination pedal wild.

As we eagerly await the next installment of this pedal-powered extravaganza, let’s hold onto the laughter and camaraderie that is Tour de Fat!

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• Saturday, Aug 26, 2023    9:30am - 6:30pm

Bike Parade starts at City Park Festivities at New Belgium Brewing

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Tour de Fat invites you to gear up for the World's Greatest Costumed Bike Parade! The parade starts at 9:30 am at City Park and loops Mountain Avenue before rolling into New Belgium Brewing for music, entertainment, contests, and games starting at 11:00 am.

Full info and schedule at: https://www.newbelgium.com/events/tour-de-fat/

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Here's everything you need to know ahead of Tour de Fat 2023

Saddle up and get ready to get weird, Fort Collins.

Tour de Fat — New Belgium Brewing's time-honored bike parade and festival tradition — returns to town Saturday.

Festivities will kick off near City Park as the bike parade sets off on its annual journey up and down Mountain Avenue. A festival complete with beer, food trucks, live music and other performances will follow at the Fort Collins brewery.

Here's what to know as Tour de Fat gears up for another year.

Stay safe and weird this weekend,

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Tour de Fat Rolls into Town

Tour de Fat, the annual New Belgium bicycle celebration commenced on September 6th at the New Belgium Brewery. Thousands of people made the pilgrimage to the Mothership to pay homage to the “greatest invention on earth” – the bicycle. Local bicycle advocacy groups benefit from the annual tradition. Their biggest fundraiser of the year, it is used to improve and maintain trails and infrastructure in our cities and parks and to encourage safe cycling in our communities.

Environmental and sustainability causes also benefit from the one-day festival. To date, New Belgium has helped raise over $800,000 for these groups. It seemed that everyone came out for the parade. Some dressed up for the occasion in special costume, while others donned their street clothes and an enthusiastic smile. All were welcomed and accepted by fellow paraders as well as on-lookers. The real treat was the variety of bicycles that came out for Tour de Fat. There were couch bicycles, side-by-side tandems, tricycles, and so many more! There was no limit to the imagination.

Tour de Fat Route

The route chosen for the Tour de Fat parade gave a tour of some of the most historical and beautiful areas of Fort Collins. It paraded through Old Town down West Mountain Avenue to City Park and back to the New Belgium Brewery, where beer and food awaited the masses. The Fort Collins Tour de Fat is the largest in the country, and it gets bigger each year. It started as an expression of the celebration of the bicycle.

New Belgium Brewery encourages people in Fort Collins and around the country to ride their bicycle as an economical and sustainable way of transportation. With the inception of Team Wonderbike, they are converting thousands of people each year to leave their car at home and pedal their way to their destination. In their mission, they choose one person from each Tour de Fat city to give up their car for a new bicycle, which they will ride for one year. In their year-long journey, they will document their experiences for the Tour de Fat in the ultimate expression of “Follow Your Folly”.

In conclusion, with an unstable economy and rising gas prices, the celebration of the bicycle is a needed relief and the perfect solution. Generating excitement about the most efficient vehicle on earth is just what we need to create a community based on sustainability.

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Tour de Fat

August 26, 2023 @ 9:30 am - 7:00 pm.

Tour de Fat is a Bicycle Party with beer. It starts with a costumed bike parade at City Park looping Mountain Ave, then heads to New Belgium Brewing for music, entertainment, contests, games, and of course beer.  Local non-profit organizations benefit financially with a portion of all the beer sales. This year proceeds from beer sales go to Bike Fort Collins, Overland Mountain Bike Association, the Fort Collins Bike CO-OP and Send Town Bike Club.  You can also support the non-profits by purchasing TdF merch!

Note the NEW date and starting point for the parade !  The zaniness takes place on August 26th this year with parade queue at City Park!

We need loads of volunteers to help pull off a successful event !  You can work the parade, the party, pour beer, sell merch, and more!  We even have some merch sorting shifts if you’d like to participate before the TdF.  

Click here to view the volunteer shifts and sign up!

Tour de Fat Fort Collins

August 26, 2023

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

Parade Start at City Park and loop Mountain Avenue

FESTIVITIES AT THE BREWERY

11 AM – 7 PM 

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500 Linden St., Fort Collins, CO

11:00 AM: Brewery doors open

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5:00 PM:  Thee Sacred Souls

6:00 PM: Thank you and good night at the Main Stage

6:00 PM: Head up to the Voodoo Ranger Stage for Decker Rush

6:30 PM: Last call at the Liquid Center

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FT. COLLINS, CO - AUGUST 31: Parade goers sporting their best alter ego costumes, head down the route at the 20th annual New Belgium Brewery's Tour de Fat August 31, 2019. The 2019 Tour de Fat included a bike parade featuring nearly 20,000 participants dressed in various costumes expressing alter egos in downtown Ft. Collins then finishing up with touring ensembles of comedians, cirque performers, musical acts, food and fresh New Belgium beer at the brewery benefiting local bike non-profits. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

FT. COLLINS, CO - AUGUST 31: Parade goer David Alexander flashes a peace sign dressed in his alter ego costume at the 20th annual New Belgium Brewery's Tour de Fat August 31, 2019. The 2019 Tour de Fat included a bike parade featuring nearly 20,000 participants dressed in various costumes expressing alter egos in downtown Ft. Collins then finishing up with touring ensembles of comedians, cirque performers, musical acts, food and fresh New Belgium beer at the brewery benefiting local bike non-profits. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

FT. COLLINS, CO - AUGUST 31: Parade participant Lee Frausel sports his alter ego costume at the 20th annual New Belgium Brewery's Tour de Fat August 31, 2019. The 2019 Tour de Fat included a bike parade featuring nearly 20,000 participants dressed in various costumes expressing alter egos in downtown Ft. Collins then finishing up with touring ensembles of comedians, cirque performers, musical acts, food and fresh New Belgium beer at the brewery benefiting local bike non-profits. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

FT. COLLINS, CO - AUGUST 31: Commemorative license plates for the 20th annual New Belgium Brewery's Tour de Fat August 31, 2019. The 2019 Tour de Fat included a bike parade featuring nearly 20,000 participants dressed in various costumes expressing alter egos in downtown Ft. Collins then finishing up with touring ensembles of comedians, cirque performers, musical acts, food and fresh New Belgium beer at the brewery benefiting local bike non-profits. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

FT. COLLINS, CO - AUGUST 31: The New Belgium float hands down the parade route during the 20th annual New Belgium Brewery's Tour de Fat August 31, 2019. The 2019 Tour de Fat included a bike parade featuring nearly 20,000 participants dressed in various costumes expressing alter egos in downtown Ft. Collins then finishing up with touring ensembles of comedians, cirque performers, musical acts, food and fresh New Belgium beer at the brewery benefiting local bike non-profits. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

FT. COLLINS, CO - AUGUST 31: Parade goers sport their best alter ego costumes on the route at the 20th annual New Belgium Brewery's Tour de Fat August 31, 2019. The 2019 Tour de Fat included a bike parade featuring nearly 20,000 participants dressed in various costumes expressing alter egos in downtown Ft. Collins then finishing up with touring ensembles of comedians, cirque performers, musical acts, food and fresh New Belgium beer at the brewery benefiting local bike non-profits. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

FT. COLLINS, CO - AUGUST 31: Jorge Carreon, left, and Katie Walther sport their best alter ego costumes at the start the 20th annual New Belgium Brewery's Tour de Fat August 31, 2019. The 2019 Tour de Fat included a bike parade featuring nearly 20,000 participants dressed in various costumes expressing alter egos in downtown Ft. Collins then finishing up with touring ensembles of comedians, cirque performers, musical acts, food and fresh New Belgium beer at the brewery benefiting local bike non-profits. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

FT. COLLINS, CO - AUGUST 31: A pedal-powered float heads down the parade route at the 20th annual New Belgium Brewery's Tour de Fat August 31, 2019. The 2019 Tour de Fat included a bike parade featuring nearly 20,000 participants dressed in various costumes expressing alter egos in downtown Ft. Collins then finishing up with touring ensembles of comedians, cirque performers, musical acts, food and fresh New Belgium beer at the brewery benefiting local bike non-profits. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

FT. COLLINS, CO - AUGUST 31: Bryan Beretta, sporting his best alter ego costume, heads down the parade route at the 20th annual New Belgium Brewery's Tour de Fat August 31, 2019. The 2019 Tour de Fat included a bike parade featuring nearly 20,000 participants dressed in various costumes expressing alter egos in downtown Ft. Collins then finishing up with touring ensembles of comedians, cirque performers, musical acts, food and fresh New Belgium beer at the brewery benefiting local bike non-profits. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

FT. COLLINS, CO - AUGUST 31: Breona Carroll sports her best alter ego look at the 20th annual New Belgium Brewery's Tour de Fat August 31, 2019. The 2019 Tour de Fat included a bike parade featuring nearly 20,000 participants dressed in various costumes expressing alter egos in downtown Ft. Collins then finishing up with touring ensembles of comedians, cirque performers, musical acts, food and fresh New Belgium beer at the brewery benefiting local bike non-profits. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

The Tour de Fat included a bike parade featuring nearly 20,000 participants dressed in various costumes expressing alter egos in downtown Ft. Collins then finishing up with touring ensembles of comedians, cirque performers, musical acts, food and fresh New Belgium beer at the brewery benefiting local bike non-profits.

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SAN ANTONIO – Runners and walkers, it’s time to show us your shoes.

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The Metro is a monument to the Soviet propaganda project it was intended to be when it opened in 1935 with the slogan “Building a Palace for the People”. It brought the grand interiors of Imperial Russia to ordinary Muscovites, celebrated the Soviet Union’s past achievements while promising its citizens a bright Soviet future, and of course, it was a show-piece for the world to witness the might and sophistication of life in the Soviet Union.

It may be a museum, but it’s no relic. U p to nine million people use it daily, more than the London Underground and New York Subway combined. (Along with, at one time, about 20 stray dogs that learned to commute on the Metro.)

In its 80+ year history, the Metro has expanded in phases and fits and starts, in step with the fortunes of Moscow and Russia. Now, partly in preparation for the World Cup 2018, it’s also modernizing. New trains allow passengers to walk the entire length of the train without having to change carriages. The system is becoming more visitor-friendly. (There are helpful stickers on the floor marking out the best selfie spots .) But there’s a price to modernity: it’s phasing out one of its beloved institutions, the escalator attendants. Often they are middle-aged or elderly women—“ escalator grandmas ” in news accounts—who have held the post for decades, sitting in their tiny kiosks, scolding commuters for bad escalator etiquette or even bad posture, or telling jokes . They are slated to be replaced, when at all, by members of the escalator maintenance staff.

For all its achievements, the Metro lags behind Moscow’s above-ground growth, as Russia’s capital sprawls ever outwards, generating some of the world’s worst traffic jams . But since 2011, the Metro has been in the middle of an ambitious and long-overdue enlargement; 60 new stations are opening by 2020. If all goes to plan, the 2011-2020 period will have brought 125 miles of new tracks and over 100 new stations — a 40 percent increase — the fastest and largest expansion phase in any period in the Metro’s history.

Facts: 14 lines Opening hours: 5 a.m-1 a.m. Rush hour(s): 8-10 a.m, 4-8 p.m. Single ride: 55₽ (about 85 cents) Wi-Fi network-wide

Buying Tickets

• Ticket machines have a button to switch to English.
• You can buy specific numbers of rides: 1, 2, 5, 11, 20, or 60. Hold up fingers to show how many rides you want to buy.
• There is also a 90-minute ticket , which gets you 1 trip on the metro plus an unlimited number of transfers on other transport (bus, tram, etc) within 90 minutes.
• Or, you can buy day tickets with unlimited rides: one day (218₽/ US$4), three days (415₽/US$7) or seven days (830₽/US$15). Check the rates here to stay up-to-date.
• If you’re going to be using the Metro regularly over a few days, it’s worth getting a Troika card , a contactless, refillable card you can use on all public transport. Using the Metro is cheaper with one of these: a single ride is 36₽, not 55₽. Buy them and refill them in the Metro stations, and they’re valid for 5 years, so you can keep it for next time. Or, if you have a lot of cash left on it when you leave, you can get it refunded at the Metro Service Centers at Ulitsa 1905 Goda, 25 or at Staraya Basmannaya 20, Building 1.
• You can also buy silicone bracelets and keychains with built-in transport chips that you can use as a Troika card. (A Moscow Metro Fitbit!) So far, you can only get these at the Pushkinskaya metro station Live Helpdesk and souvenir shops in the Mayakovskaya and Trubnaya metro stations. The fare is the same as for the Troika card.
• You can also use Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

Rules, spoken and unspoken

No smoking, no drinking, no filming, no littering. Photography is allowed, although it used to be banned.

Stand to the right on the escalator. Break this rule and you risk the wrath of the legendary escalator attendants. (No shenanigans on the escalators in general.)

Get out of the way. Find an empty corner to hide in when you get off a train and need to stare at your phone. Watch out getting out of the train in general; when your train doors open, people tend to appear from nowhere or from behind ornate marble columns, walking full-speed.

Always offer your seat to elderly ladies (what are you, a monster?).

An Easy Tour

This is no Metro Marathon ( 199 stations in 20 hours ). It’s an easy tour, taking in most—though not all—of the notable stations, the bulk of it going clockwise along the Circle line, with a couple of short detours. These stations are within minutes of one another, and the whole tour should take about 1-2 hours.

Start at Mayakovskaya Metro station , at the corner of Tverskaya and Garden Ring,  Triumfalnaya Square, Moskva, Russia, 125047.

1. Mayakovskaya.  Named for Russian Futurist Movement poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and an attempt to bring to life the future he imagined in his poems. (The Futurist Movement, natch, was all about a rejecting the past and celebrating all things speed, industry, modern machines, youth, modernity.) The result: an Art Deco masterpiece that won the National Grand Prix for architecture at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. It’s all smooth, rounded shine and light, and gentle arches supported by columns of dark pink marble and stainless aircraft steel. Each of its 34 ceiling niches has a mosaic. During World War II, the station was used as an air-raid shelter and, at one point, a bunker for Stalin. He gave a subdued but rousing speech here in Nov. 6, 1941 as the Nazis bombed the city above.

Take the 3/Green line one station to:

2. Belorusskaya. Opened in 1952, named after the connected Belarussky Rail Terminal, which runs trains between Moscow and Belarus. This is a light marble affair with a white, cake-like ceiling, lined with Belorussian patterns and 12 Florentine ceiling mosaics depicting life in Belarussia when it was built.

Transfer onto the 1/Brown line. Then, one stop (clockwise) t o:

3. Novoslobodskaya.  This station was designed around the stained-glass panels, which were made in Latvia, because Alexey Dushkin, the Soviet starchitect who dreamed it up (and also designed Mayakovskaya station) couldn’t find the glass and craft locally. The stained glass is the same used for Riga’s Cathedral, and the panels feature plants, flowers, members of the Soviet intelligentsia (musician, artist, architect) and geometric shapes.

Go two stops east on the 1/Circle line to:

4. Komsomolskaya. Named after the Komsomol, or the Young Communist League, this might just be peak Stalin Metro style. Underneath the hub for three regional railways, it was intended to be a grand gateway to Moscow and is today its busiest station. It has chandeliers; a yellow ceiling with Baroque embellishments; and in the main hall, a colossal red star overlaid on golden, shimmering tiles. Designer Alexey Shchusev designed it as an homage to the speech Stalin gave at Red Square on Nov. 7, 1941, in which he invoked Russia’s illustrious military leaders as a pep talk to Soviet soldiers through the first catastrophic year of the war.   The station’s eight large mosaics are of the leaders referenced in the speech, such as Alexander Nevsky, a 13th-century prince and military commander who bested German and Swedish invading armies.

One more stop clockwise to Kurskaya station,  and change onto the 3/Blue  line, and go one stop to:

5. Baumanskaya.   Opened in 1944. Named for the Bolshevik Revolutionary Nikolai Bauman , whose monument and namesake district are aboveground here. Though he seemed like a nasty piece of work (he apparently once publicly mocked a woman he had impregnated, who later hung herself), he became a Revolutionary martyr when he was killed in 1905 in a skirmish with a monarchist, who hit him on the head with part of a steel pipe. The station is in Art Deco style with atmospherically dim lighting, and a series of bronze sculptures of soldiers and homefront heroes during the War. At one end, there is a large mosaic portrait of Lenin.

Stay on that train direction one more east to:

6. Elektrozavodskaya. As you may have guessed from the name, this station is the Metro’s tribute to all thing electrical, built in 1944 and named after a nearby lightbulb factory. It has marble bas-relief sculptures of important figures in electrical engineering, and others illustrating the Soviet Union’s war-time struggles at home. The ceiling’s recurring rows of circular lamps give the station’s main tunnel a comforting glow, and a pleasing visual effect.

Double back two stops to Kurskaya station , and change back to the 1/Circle line. Sit tight for six stations to:

7. Kiyevskaya. This was the last station on the Circle line to be built, in 1954, completed under Nikita Khrushchev’ s guidance, as a tribute to his homeland, Ukraine. Its three large station halls feature images celebrating Ukraine’s contributions to the Soviet Union and Russo-Ukrainian unity, depicting musicians, textile-working, soldiers, farmers. (One hall has frescoes, one mosaics, and the third murals.) Shortly after it was completed, Khrushchev condemned the architectural excesses and unnecessary luxury of the Stalin era, which ushered in an epoch of more austere Metro stations. According to the legend at least, he timed the policy in part to ensure no Metro station built after could outshine Kiyevskaya.

Change to the 3/Blue line and go one stop west.

8. Park Pobedy. This is the deepest station on the Metro, with one of the world’s longest escalators, at 413 feet. If you stand still, the escalator ride to the surface takes about three minutes .) Opened in 2003 at Victory Park, the station celebrates two of Russia’s great military victories. Each end has a mural by Georgian artist Zurab Tsereteli, who also designed the “ Good Defeats Evil ” statue at the UN headquarters in New York. One mural depicts the Russian generals’ victory over the French in 1812 and the other, the German surrender of 1945. The latter is particularly striking; equal parts dramatic, triumphant, and gruesome. To the side, Red Army soldiers trample Nazi flags, and if you look closely there’s some blood spatter among the detail. Still, the biggest impressions here are the marble shine of the chessboard floor pattern and the pleasingly geometric effect if you view from one end to the other.

Keep going one more stop west to:

9. Slavyansky Bulvar.  One of the Metro’s youngest stations, it opened in 2008. With far higher ceilings than many other stations—which tend to have covered central tunnels on the platforms—it has an “open-air” feel (or as close to it as you can get, one hundred feet under). It’s an homage to French architect Hector Guimard, he of the Art Nouveau entrances for the Paris M é tro, and that’s precisely what this looks like: A Moscow homage to the Paris M é tro, with an additional forest theme. A Cyrillic twist on Guimard’s Metro-style lettering over the benches, furnished with t rees and branch motifs, including creeping vines as towering lamp-posts.

Stay on the 3/Blue line and double back four stations to:

10. Arbatskaya. Its first iteration, Arbatskaya-Smolenskaya station, was damaged by German bombs in 1941. It was rebuilt in 1953, and designed to double as a bomb shelter in the event of nuclear war, although unusually for stations built in the post-war phase, this one doesn’t have a war theme. It may also be one of the system’s most elegant: Baroque, but toned down a little, with red marble floors and white ceilings with gilded bronze c handeliers.

Jump back on the 3/Blue line  in the same direction and take it one more stop:

11. Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square). Opened in 1938, and serving Red Square and the Kremlin . Its renowned central hall has marble columns flanked by 76 bronze statues of Soviet heroes: soldiers, students, farmers, athletes, writers, parents. Some of these statues’ appendages have a yellow sheen from decades of Moscow’s commuters rubbing them for good luck. Among the most popular for a superstitious walk-by rub: the snout of a frontier guard’s dog, a soldier’s gun (where the touch of millions of human hands have tapered the gun barrel into a fine, pointy blade), a baby’s foot, and a woman’s knee. (A brass rooster also sports the telltale gold sheen, though I am told that rubbing the rooster is thought to bring bad luck. )

Now take the escalator up, and get some fresh air.

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Tour de Fat 2017: Road closures and parade route

Fort Collins is likely to be packed with beer-toting cyclists in outlandish costumes this Saturday for New Belgium's Tour de Fat. 

So whether you want to know where the parade route runs so you can find an easy place to hop in, or so you know which streets to steer clear of on your weekend errands, we've got you covered. 

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Here's a look at the traffic disruptions likely to take place on Saturday.

Tour de Fat parade route

The parade starts Saturday at 10 a.m. at the intersection of Meldrum and Maple streets. It travels down Meldrum to Mountain Avenue and then west on Mountain toward Bryan Street. Parade goers will head east on Oak Street, then north on Jackson Avenue until they hit Mountain and head east again, toward the end of the parade route.

Road closures on the parade route begin at 6 a.m.

The Tour de Fat Festival at New Belgium later in the day also might make you rethink your driving plans for the day. The festival, which includes concerts and a dance contest begins at 3 p.m. The festival means that Buckingham Street will be closed between First and Linden streets between 6 a.m. Saturday and 2 a.m. Sunday.