For more than 3 years, the Denver Cruiser Ride has remained police free. I'd like to take a moment to ask all of the cruisers to help to protect the safety of the ride, and understand that in Denver, a bicyclist is required to follow the same rules as an automobile when on public streets.

What Does This Mean To You?
Ultimately, it's each rider's responsibility to police themselves, however, if one rider runs a red light, typically the ensuing riders follow suit, and this behavior can potentially cause someone to be injured. It's important to understand that safety should be each rider's primary concern, and in order to continue to keep the cruiser ride off the radar of the Denver Police, I am asking each of you to become familiar with the traffic laws in Denver, and follow them on the rides.

I am requesting that those who participate in each week's ride to remind
your fellow riders to be considerate of these "rules," and make sure that
we keep the ride safe and police free. There's no reason to run red lights
(other than to be rebellious, which in many cases, I'm all for).
The reality is that it's your resonsibility to participate in this very simple
" Cruiser Code," and to encourage other riders to do the same -
keeping the ride safe, and not allow it to be a target of police action.
(Those who used to ride in Boulder know the results of this).

The police officers that stopped the two riders in the past for running a red light on 15th Street asked us to make sure that we "stop at stoplights, and follow the rules of the road, so we won't have to 'scrape' one of your fellow riders off the road." That seems like a heroic approach, and hats off to the police for being so fair, and not creating an advasarial atmosphere between riders and the police.