A few Coasters attended the Tour De Fat in Ft Collins, Colorado over Labor Day weekend. From Dan…

We had a BLAST. We rode with about 10,000, yes that’s 10,000 other bicycle crazy people in the Fort Collins Tour de Fat parade. In the pic you see some Coaster BC regulars, me as rocket man Dan ( I was riding the Starliner, the bike with the nose cone ) , Lora as Pippy Longstockings ( ask her what the purple flappy thing is on the knee of her long stockings), and there is Josh, Brad, and Ruthie ( I bet they will be in costumes next time ) and that’s Jody and Todd in there Bavarian beer drinking outfits ( ask Jody what her biggest challenge of the day was). Then there’s a couple of strangers in the photo ( who am I to call anyone stranger ), well a lot of us know Jon from K.C. ( who was the Champion in the TDF slow race competition ) and a new found friend ( we found him friday when we toured the New Belgium Brewery ) Brad from Albuquerque, N.M. who was decked out in old fashion mr. Fat Tire salesman grab complete with a brand new Electra delivery bike decked out in Fat Tire grab ( I think he was trying to get a job with New Belgium Brewery, don’t ask what he currently does for a living ) .
We had a BLAST. Wish more of the Coasters could have been there. We did there what we like to do here, ride bike and drink beer. And its for a good cause, early figures were over $65,000 were raised for Fort Collins bicycle causes. Plan to go to next years Tour De Fat.