August 2009

Your Valmont Bike Park Donations At Work

News

Next Generation of Bike Park Plans Now Online
time to get excited!
log drop from ABP plans
Detailed plans for Valmont Bike Park are now online, and you really have to see them to believe it - the Park designers have pulled out all the stops to dream up an amazing park, and you can clearly see their vision in these next generation site plans.  The current plans including site maps marking feature locations and detailed drawings for individual features, but expect changes as additional design details are still being developed for the final package to guide the construction effort.  Current plans include cyclocross sandpits and staircases, wall rides, banked turns, rollers and tabletops, log rides... everything you need to visualize Valmont Bike Park in your dreams.
 
Kudos go out to the team of designers from Alpine Bike Parks, IMBA, and Alta Planning & Design for their dedication to VBP.  As far as we know, no trail builders in the nation have ever had to adhere to this level of detail.  It is a big learning curve, but this is a big civil engineering project.  The level of detail is necessary for proper bid and build without tons of change orders to the project.  We can't thank Alpine Bike Parks enough for making their vision available to the rest of us.
Site Grading in September and October
First steps toward building Valmont Bike Park

Expect to see dirt moving around at Valmont Bike Park!  The first step in making VBP a biking heaven is to move a lot of dirt, shaping it into hills and features which will then hold the trails and landscaping. The City has taken a very proactive step by creating a separate permit for the grading work at the park, so that this important first step can happen as soon as possible.
Valmont Bike Park Fundraising Hits $366K
366K fundraising gaugeThat's right, to date we have raised $366,000 towards construction of bike features and trails at Valmont Bike Park!  Thanks to a combination of individual donations from the community and generous grants from GOCO, Bikes Belong, The Dalbey Foundation and REI, we have increased the budget for bike park features by 50%.

One more time, thank you donors!
REI Grant Helps Fund VBP
$10,000 grant due to REI employees
REI logo

REI employees work, play and volunteer in their communities. Because of this close relationship with the community, REI asks their employees to nominate non-profit organizations for REI grants.  The Valmont Bike Park was nominated by the REI Boulder Store and we applied for funding this spring.  
 
We are pleased to report that our grant request was approved and recently funded.  Valmont Bike Park received $10,000 from REI to support trail construction and also ongoing maintenance.  Some of these funds will be used for the purchase of hand tools and equipment that will be stored on-site and used by volunteers.
 
REI has been a long-time supporter of outdoor recreation and BMA.  In fact, the 'REI Gives' Program has even provided a major grant for BMA's Volunteer Trail Work Program. Thanks REI for your support!

Events

Groundbreaking Party and CX Race
October 17th at Valmont Bike Park!
Valmont CX race 1998
Cyclocross Super Cup, 1998 - the last time a CX race was held at Valmont!

On October 17th, the VBP Committee and Boulder Parks and Recreation will host a groundbreaking event and party at the Park in conjunction with a cyclocross race.  Details are pending, but hundreds of racers and spectators will be there to help us inaugurate the Park.  The race will take place on temporary trails and under very unfinished conditions - the park and trail will not be indicative of the final product.  However, this is a great opportunity to get VBP started, so that you, our donors, can see what the Park is like now and get ready for its transformation in 2010.
 
Mark your calendars, and stay tuned for details.

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In This Issue
Detailed Park Plans Online
Site Grading
Fundraising Hits $366K
REI Awards $10K to VBP
Groundbreaking Party & CX Race
Construction Fundraising Drive Ending
Denver Post Article
Vetting Trail Builders
Quick Links
VBP Site Plans
VBP Blog
VBP Homepage
VBP Video
VBP Facebook Group

Boulder Parks and Recreation Foundation
City of Boulder Parks and Recreation
Boulder Mountainbike Alliance

Construction Fundraising Drive Ends October 17th
Thanks again for all your contributions to Valmont Bike Park!  Through a combination of individual donations, company donations, and large grants, the monies raised up to this point have increased the amount budgeted for construction of "bike features" by almost 50%!  That means more trails, wall rides, pump tracks, and other great bike features to make VBP the best it can be.
 
After October 17th, we will be shifting fundraising gears from "construction" to "programming", meaning ongoing activities at the Park.  Once VBP has been built, there will be maintenance, community-building activities, races, skills clinics, you name it - all kinds of programs and ongoing activities that will make VBP the urban cycling hub of Boulder.  Raising funds for these activities will keep VBP vital and grow the cycling community in Boulder.

VBP in the Denver Post
fundraising gauge at $115K
Valmont Bike Park was featured prominently in a front-page Denver Post story on August 4, 2009.  The article talked about how VBP is one of many bike parks popping up on the Front Range, and how these parks are "bringing the backcountry or action sports experience to the front country".
Vetting of Trail Builders
It takes a village... or a lot of subcontractors

Valmont City Park is a big city park project that will be led by a general contractor with a lot of subcontractors - landscaping, concrete work, etc.  We are now one step closer to taking care of the subcontractor we care about the most, the Trail Builder.

On August 9th the VBP Committee and Parks and Recreation staff met to develop a short list of pre-qualified Trail Builder subcontractors.  This list will be passed to the general contractor for final selection; pre-qualification of the general contractor will start soon.
 
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