{"id":1693,"date":"2010-09-09T16:36:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T22:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2018-01-12T09:56:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T16:56:57","slug":"bike-to-school-day-to-offer-fun-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=1693","title":{"rendered":"Bike to School Day to offer fun, exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/BikeJam_Final3.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1695\" title=\"BikeJam_Final3\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/BikeJam_Final3-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/BikeJam_Final3-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/BikeJam_Final3-1024x662.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The second annual UCCS Bike to School Day Sept. 15 will encourage fun but with a serious message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 80 percent of the campus community comes to the university in a single occupancy vehicle,\u201d Linda Kogan, director, Office of Sustainability, said. \u201cThis is a significant part of our environmental footprint and bicycling is one way to reduce this impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event, informally known as Bike Jam, celebrates bicycling and will provide maps, free bike tune ups and opportunities to learn about sustainable transportation. The program will be from 7:30 -9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at El Pomar Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>A free breakfast, served from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at El Pomar Plaza, awaits riders who register at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/event\/813655666\">http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/event\/813655666<\/a>. There will also be an opportunity to donate a bike to the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission\u2019s Bike Exchange to Outfit Homeless Riders program. Good condition bikes may be donated from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 15. To arrange an early drop off of a donated bike, contact Carole Huber, senior instructor, Geography and Environmental Studies, <a href=\"mailto:chuber@uccs.edu\">chuber@uccs.edu<\/a> or Kogan, <a href=\"mailto:lkogan@uccs.edu\">lkogan@uccs.edu<\/a>. For more information on the program, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppjpc.org\">http:\/\/www.ppjpc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Guided mountain bike tours of single-and double- track trails northwest of campus will leave from El Pomar Plaza at 10:30 a.m. Helmets and familiarity with off-road riding are recommended.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bike Jam Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>El Pomar Plaza<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>7:30 a.m. \u2013 9:30 a.m.<\/strong> Breakfast for riders<strong>, <\/strong>tune-ups, prize and music.Prizes will be awarded for best costume, longest ride, ugliest bike, best decorated bike, oldest bike and the department with the most riders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:30 a.m.<\/strong> Campus cruise on the mountain bike trails on campus led by Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:30 a.m. \u2013 1 p.m.<\/strong> Chipotle, music, free tune-ups, prizes, games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The second annual UCCS Bike to School Day Sept. 15 will encourage fun but with a serious message. \u201cMore than 80 percent of the campus community comes to the university in a single occupancy vehicle,\u201d <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=1693\" title=\"Bike to School Day to offer fun, exercise\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","tag-department-of-public-safety"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/BikeJam_Final3-300x194.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-rj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29314,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/29314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}