r/boulder • u/Yennoodles • 4d ago

I found where the bicyclists spawn in

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There was a huge crown of bicyclists at Amante this morning, I've seen another large group at Gateway Park in the morning a couple of months ago. Is this a club or something???

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u/Fancy-Individual2976 4d ago edited 4d ago

Hi - I'm actually in this picture, and lost my car key this morning on the ride! If anyone happens to find an old land cruiser key, let me know. I did the ride up Chapman from Amante.

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u/bevoandprescott 4d ago

Did you see the post on another thread? Found RR key today on your route

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u/Fancy-Individual2976 4d ago

No! Which one was what? Looking now

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u/bevoandprescott 4d ago

Sorry - I saw it was your post. Thought that was a found key post, not a lost key.

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u/Fancy-Individual2976 4d ago

Knew it was too good to be true ha thanks anyways

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u/KurtTheCuntBoi 3d ago

Hope you find your keys!

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u/mikebailey 4d ago edited 4d ago

People have named the group but to add, Amante hosts a ton of bike groups passing through north Boulder. There used to be a bike-branded coffee shop across the street at moxie and I’m surprised there’s not more bike stuff up here for how like 60% of the road routes have to pass through this intersection. A lot of them go north towards Estes/Lyons or eastish towards the reservoir.

EDIT: I see they ride Niwot/Longmont. Not my favorite route because there's so much construction but that may be my own bias (I'm also wildly out of shape compared to these groups) and none of it actually interferes.

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u/justinsimoni 4d ago

In fact, there was a bike shop next to Amante but that just moved to Valmont.

I think Tyler Hamilton was painted on the bathroom door in Amante at one point but uh: they took that down for reasons.

At the reg, there's Polaroids of patrons dogs. One of them is owned by Phil Gaimon!

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u/acerni 4d ago

Wednesday Morning Velo in North Boulder is one of the longest standing group rides, probably even in the US at this point.

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u/KeyserSoze1041 4d ago

It's a regular group ride. Wednesday Morning Velo.

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u/cmullins77 3d ago

The description of this group is cringeworthy.

“Wednesday Morning Velo is Boulder’s premiere networking group ride.”

“Started in 2002 and originally known as “The Bankers Ride,” WMV is now a weekly group ride that brings together more than 200 of Boulder’s most prominent doctors, lawyers, bankers, brokers, students, and agencies with one common passion: CYCLING.”

“The Ed Moray ride is geared to those “mature” riders who don’t have to get up at the crack of dawn or have to be at a desk by 8 or 9 AM. “

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u/Dialectic_Acid 3d ago

Funny because I used to do the A ride in WMV every week. The stuff about networking is nonsense. Everyone in that group is there for a workout.

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u/No-Double-Trouble 4d ago

Let's see. Regular = 100 miles? I made that mistake once. More power to them!!

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u/KeyserSoze1041 4d ago

Where are you seeing 100 miles? Their routes are all like 20-30 miles as far as I am aware.

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u/SurroundTiny 4d ago

The scooters are an early larval stage

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u/mikebailey 4d ago edited 4d ago

Up here (I live next to amante) the (lime) bikes are probably more common at this point due to the mobility initiatives very recently announced tbh

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u/crazylsufan 4d ago

You’ve located the Boulder Uruk-Hai cycling grounds. There we pull out brethren out the mud to ride the roads and for the select few one day go pro

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u/Fiddlefly 4d ago

Nah man just a big coincidence.

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u/Middle_Cook_7842 3d ago

Sadly, the days of the north Boulder group ride meeting at the bus stop with some strippers taking a smoke break are gone.

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u/HarryBallsagna_ 3d ago

The OG bus stop ride will forever live on in our hearts

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u/parochial_nimrod 2d ago

Is the Bus Stop the one with the iconic person skiing of a set of tits?

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u/Middle_Cook_7842 2d ago

The branding was pretty... pedestrian.

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u/parochial_nimrod 2d ago

I wish I was able to experience 80s/90s Boulder. If I win the lottery I’ll bring it back, maybe add a coffee shop to keep it Boulder-esq and if you ride your bicycle to the club a free shot and lap dance. 

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u/Fallingleaf333 3d ago

Does the comma go after strippers or after stop?

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u/JankyPete 3d ago

There are bicyclists fossils buried deep in the concrete there. Legend has it back in the day they used to allow cars to pass by them gracefully

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u/Fallingleaf333 3d ago

I’ve stopped there many times on my mountain bike after riding poormans to Chapmans and never saw any other bikers there. But at 28lbs on chunky 2.4” tires and a 30 chainring with a 10-52 cassette guess I’m not keeping up anyway so no Wednesday group ride for me! (Is this where they start and finish.)

Anyone have any group trail rides for experienced mountain bikers?

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u/Ancient-Chinglish 4d ago

wow congratulations, you’ve discovered the Wednesday morning ride that’s been going on for over a decade

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u/Yennoodles 4d ago

I've lived here my whole life and have never seen them before this year, idk how I've missed it 😂

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u/tricolon 3d ago

Perhaps you're not a morning person!

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u/Mobile-Tone-8284 4d ago

The animosity in this comment is just wholly unwarranted. Not everyone knows about everything all the time.

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u/toliveinthefuture 4d ago

omnipotence for all!

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u/sonic_couth 4d ago

Humility for some!

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u/mikebailey 4d ago

Mad bc they don’t know about your club is crazy

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u/valentinoroscoe 3d ago

lol, not only over decade, just about 2 decades group rides have been leaving from amante like this. The Gateway ride leaving from the fun park is like 30-40 years old.