New Belgium Brewing’s “Tour de Fat” Announces National Schedule

New Belgique Brewing’s “Tour de Fat” Announces National Schedule, Including First-time Festivals in besieging and Washington, DC Rollin’ Into a City Near You; Countdown Begins for Crafting Costumes

Ft. Collins, CO, March 27, 2012 â€" New Belgique Brewing today announced the much-anticipated Tour de Fat 2012 schedule. Now in its 13th season, Tour de Fat brings unitedly passionate bike lovers for a day of two-wheeled revelry patch raising money for topical nonprofits. Tour de Fat is a thrilling usage of lawmaking that includes an unparalleled costumed cycle parade, New Belgique beer, dazzling entertainment, topical food, extraordinary bike contests and much more. Coming to 15 cities crossways the country, New Belgique has additional besieging and Washington, DC to this year’s lineup.

In 2012, Tour de Fat, which is a liberated event, module top the $2 meg evaluation for money upraised for topical nonprofits finished beer and goods purchases. Funds mostly go to organizations in the world of bike advocacy, with money spent in a panoramic difference of ways, including dawdle maintenance, safety education, lobbying for meliorate cycle communities and a panoramic difference of another impactful initiatives.

The pinnacle of Tour de Fat is the ceremonious car-for-bike trade. At apiece Tour de Fat, digit mortal becomes the edifice of the show as he or she gets up on stage, safekeeping over automobile keys, and pledges to live digit assemblage car-free. Tour de Fat is today seeking volunteers to accept the swapper challenge. Each car-for-bike swapper module opt a topical bike class to support them turn their $2,250.00 budget into their eventual car-replacement commuter bike. The cars module be auctioned by Vehicles for Charity, with proceeds to goodness topical cycling organizations.

Swappers are chosen after submitting an covering that describes ground they are selection to change in their container for a shiny newborn bicycle. To accede an entry, go to the New Belgique Tour de Fat Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TourDeFat), utter on events and your municipality of choice, and upload your covering video. Applications haw also be cursive and dispatched to: trademycarforabike@newbelgium.com.

“This is a big assemblage for Tour De Fat as we additional digit terrific cities to the listing and countenance to outgo $2 meg in assets upraised for organizations that do enthusiastic things for bicyclists and beyond,” said Matt Kowal, Tour De Fat Impresario.  “In addition, our accord of car-for-bike swappers is most to grow, which is a particular of our full year. Bike advocacy should always be this much fun.”

A few tidbits most Tour de Fat:

• Start sewing, collecting and dreaming up something to dress as Tour de Fat encourages embracing your intrinsic costume-loving self. Come clad up to support place on the most colorful, deferential and creative bike process ever witnessed in apiece city.
• Tour de Fat seeks to yield as diminutive an environmental imprint as possible and composts and recycles waste. Bring exclusive what you requirement and watch for comely receptacles. We’ll do the rest!
• All performers clutch your tending from instead authorised stages decked discover in recycled materials; trucks and instrumentation ingest biofuel sourced from recycled waste oils; and every vendors control off the grid.
• This is a pro-bike celebration, not an anti-car rally. Non-cyclists are more than recognize to tie the festivities.

In 2011, Tour de Fat cosmopolitan to 13 cities, attracting a amount of 69,550 festivity attendees and 41,150 process cyclists.  In addition, the festivity upraised $331,428 and boasted an awesome 90 percent diversion of waste from landfills.

See https://www.facebook.com/TourDeFat for the Tour de Fat credo, schedules, videos and to accede your entry to swap your pedal drinker for a flamboyant newborn bike.  To see a recording from last year’s flavour utter on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekxuu5j9BVk.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Tour de Fat 2012 module cycle finished apiece of the following cities:

Nashville, TN â€" June 2 â€" Centennial Park Washington, DC â€" June 16 â€" Yards Park Durham, NC â€" June 23 â€" Diamond View Park on the American Tobacco Campus Atlanta, GA â€" June 30 â€" Historic 4th Ward Park Milwaukee, WI â€" July 14 â€" Coast Guard Event Area, Denali Park Chicago, IL â€" July 21 â€" Palmer Square Minneapolis, MN â€" July 28 â€" Loring Park Boise, ID â€" August 18 â€" Ann author Park Fort Collins, CO â€" Sept 1 â€" Civic Center Park Area Denver, CO â€" Sept 8 â€" City Park Los Angeles, CA â€" Sept 15 â€" Los Angeles State Historic Park San Francisco, CA â€" Sept 22 â€" Lindley Meadow in Golden Gate Park San Diego, CA â€" Sept 29 â€" Golden Hill Park Tempe, AZ â€" Oct 6 â€" Tempe Town Lake Austin, TX â€" Oct 20 â€" Fiesta Gardens

About New Belgique Brewing Company New Belgique Brewing Company, makers of Fat Tire Amber Ale and a patron of Belgian-inspired beers, began dealings in a tiny Fort author basement in 1991. Today, the third maximal craft shaper in the U.S., New Belgique produces figure year-round beers; Fat Tire Amber Ale, Ranger IPA, Belgo IPA, Sunshine Wheat, Shift Pale Lager, Blue Paddle Pilsner, 1554 Black Ale, Abbey and Trippel, as well as a patron of seasonal releases.  In constituent to producing world-class beers, New Belgique takes pride in existence a answerable corporate role model with progressive programs much as employee ownership, unstoppered book management and a commitment to environmental stewardship.  For more information, visitwww.newbelgium.com.

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