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Grand Valley Youth Cycling (GVYC) is a nonprofit organization that delivers high quality afterschool and year-round mountain bike programming for 6th - 12th grade students in the community. Initially founded in 2011 to support the needs of high school bike racing teams in the Colorado High School Cycling League, we have since expanded to better serve the youth of the Grand Valley through the addition of middle school and other skill-based mountain biking programs to meet a larger range of abilities and interests. GVYC mountain bike programs blend the physical and mental health benefits of mountain biking with access to outdoor physical activity, awareness of our public lands, trail stewardship and a healthy lifestyle.
The GVYC Mission is to develop an inclusive and active mountain biking community for youth riders of all abilities and interests in the Grand Valley.
We Achieve our Mission by:
Providing athletes with a fun and safe environment to achieve their individual cycling goals.
Decreasing barriers to participation in our programs.
Developing athletes that are gracious and respectful contributors to and leaders in their community.
Nurturing knowledge for a healthy lifestyle from the seat of a bicycle.
Core Values
❖ Fun can be the satisfaction of conquering a hard climb, finishing a tough workout or the thrill of fast descent. Or, it can be laughs with friends on the trails. Or the joy of being outside. Whatever the type of fun, we’ll find it.
❖ Teamwork riding with your friends is part of being on a team in an individual sport. We seek out friends to ride with who will encourage us, laugh at and with us, spot landings and cheer us up that climb.
❖ Passion for being outside on a bike is the fuel that drives us to ride further, faster and have more fun.
❖ Community is the glue that binds us together through the simple pleasure of riding a bike. Knowing there is a whole community of like minded people supporting us gives us the motivation to push a little harder, go a little faster or try a little more.
❖ Positivity is the belief that the fun is in the process and we can accomplish hard things through determination, resilience and perseverance
Organization name
Grand Valley Youth Cycling
2012
Tax id (EIN)
45-4600416
Category
Recreation & Sports, Youth Development
Organization Size
Small Organization
Address
2536 RIMROCK AVE STE 400 PMB 516Mesa County, CO, US
Grand Junction, CO, US
Fruita, CO, US, 81521
Palisade, CO, US, 81526