Posted on September - 02 - 2010

Kids can beat the weekend heat at Sunday’s free Tikeapalooza event in Boulder

Thanks to the generosity of many Colorado-area businesses, kids will have the chance to beat this weekend’s heat wave eating free Boulder Ice Cream and riding along 18,000 square feet of indoor bike fabulous indoor mountain biking trails.

The 2010 Boulder Tikeapalooza is scheduled for Sunday, September 5th from 11:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. Onsite registration opens at 10 a.m. and is also available in advance online.

Kids are invited to bring their own bikes and ride the amazing indoor trails at Boulder Indoor Cycling center, one of the event’s co-sponsors.

At 12:30 p.m., toddlers will gather in unison for the first-ever ‘Parade of Tike Bikers,’ in which the tots will have a chance to bike around the base of one of North America’s only indoor Velodromes.

The parade is open to toddlers as young as 16 months. Kids who don’t yet have their own bikes or aren’t able to bike will have the chance to try out a Strider PREBike, a no-pedal bike designed especially forchildren. Strider says that if your child can walk,he or she can handle a PREBike.

The PREBikes’ manufacturer, Strider Sports International, is Tikeapalooza’s lead sponsor. Several local Strider dealers, including The Strider Store and Ginger and Pickles – both of Boulder, are among those presenting Tikeapalooza.

About a dozen Colorado-based companies have made donations to Tikeapalooza. The event is free to young children and their parents. Thanks to sponsors, a donation will be made to the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon for each child who participates.

Full details about the event are available at www.tikeapalooza.com.

Co-sponsors of the event include: Art & Style Baking; Boulder Canyon Natural Foods; Boulder Ice Cream; Clementine Art; Competitor Magazine; The Farrar Side; Germ Proof Your Kids; Izze; NewsBios.com; Repro Services; Skinny Crisps and White Wave Foods. (Dean Rotbart, Denver Business Commentary Examiner, is the 2010 coordinator of Tikeapalooza. Rotbart also consults on behalf of Strider Sports and is a co-owner of Denver-based NewsBios.com.)

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