My Earn-A-Bike from community cycles

Community Cycles is a non-profit organization in Boulder that collects old or abandoned bikes, takes them apart and then puts together and sells fixed up bikes. All this is done with a few permanent employees and a bunch of volunteers. The main incentive for the volunteers is the Earn-A-Bike program. When you volunteer for 10 hours you get to work for another 5 hours building a bike that's yours to keep. The red Schwin below is the bike that I built for Kristen. I started with a very old bike and ended up keeping just the frame. After a new derailleur, wheels, handlebars, brakes, shifters, etc, and more then 5 hours of work the new European style townie is quite comfortable.

Why I love Colorado.

This weekend I finally climbed my first fourteener, Long's Peak. There are only a few weeks in a year when climbing Long's is non-technical and we lucked out with the weather on Saturday. We left the parking lot at 3:20am, made it to the Keyhole by 7am and summited at 8:15am. We were back down to the car by 1pm after a very exhausting day. The adrenaline rush of touching the summit was totally worth it. Click on the photo for more pictures.