Tour de Fat 2009 is coming!

Tour de Fat, New Belgium Brewing’s traveling celebration of all things bicycle, rolls through 11 cities this season, adding San Diego and Minneapolis to the 2009 roster. Mark your calendars for August 22nd in Boise! This year, Tour de Fat celebrates a decade of honoring mankind’s greatest invention - the bike - and is ready to hit double-digits in style. Born in Ft. Collins, Colorado to increase awareness and participation in cycling as a sustainable form of transportation, Tour de Fat has grown into a national rite of passage for cycling advocates and bon vivants alike. Visit http://www.newbelgium.com/tour-de-fat to view schedules, videos and much more.

For the third year in a row, Tour de Fat is looking for volunteers who accept this swapper challenge. As part of the program, one volunteer in each city will sign over their car title and receive a hand-built Black Sheep (http://www.blacksheepbikes.com/) commuter bike in exchange. The volunteer is chosen after submitting a video, or essay describing their desire to live sans car for a year.  For more information, log onto http://www.newbelgium.com/tour-de-fat.