Telluride Townies ~ Bike Donations

One of the many advantages of living in a small town is that you can get a lot accomplished without ever getting in your car, especially if you have a bike. However, many people who work in Telluride live outside of town, or are here seasonally and don’t have access to a bike. The New Community Coalition is working with Wilkinson Public Library to create Telluride Townies, a community bike library. The community bikes will be locked on a rack on the east side of the library, available to all Wilkinson Public Library card holders to rent for free for several days. Telluride townies is providing healthy, environmentally sound and recreational opportunities and alternatives to driving. Encouraging the use of bikes reduces the overall air and noise pollution and traffic inherent with motorized vehicles. The bikes themselves will be recycled cycles, donated from members in the community that are converted to single speeds at Deep Creek Custom Cycles with the San Miguel Bike Alliance and volunteers. Telluride Townies hopes to share the intangible and innumerable joys known to those who have coasted down Colorado Avenue with easy breezy mountain air in their hair.

To get the program started we need donations from the community. Donations of steel framed bikes, parts and tools will be accepted Wednesday 5/27 and Friday 5/29 at the Library from 5-7p.m. We especially need tires, tubes, seats, hand grips and bike stands.

For more information, contact Jacey @ 970-708-4004 or call Wilkinson Public Library @ 970-728-4519 ext. 10

~ Faith