Tour de Fat Promotes Cycling, Sustainability: Video

It’s like the Tour de France, only easier, more colorful, and a lot more fun. Tour de Fat, New Belgium Brewery’s annual bike parade and festival, hit Fort Collins, CO this past weekend and made it abundantly clear that riding a bike is much preferable to driving a car.

6,000 bicycles, ridden by crazy costumed riders, stopped traffic and cleared the streets during New Belgium’s “ballyhoo of bikes” to have a good great time and raise money for bike-related non-profit organizations.
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Tour de Fat’s main goal is to promote and celebrate the bicycle as a viable means of transportation. And if you happened to be driving by Mountain Ave., Linden Street, or College Ave. in Fort Collins on Saturday September 6th, it was impossible not to get the message.

With multiple stops across the country, Tour de Fat gets people out on their bikes in true festival fashion. Check the New Belgium website to see if/when the tour is coming to your town. Trust me, you don’t want to miss it – it’s a spectacle of sites, sounds, and two glorious wheels. Check out the video, with Ryan Duzer of the Daily Camera in Boulder, CO…