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Shelby Cunliffe, Clara Moulton and Kit Jones (l. to r.) ride down Montezuma Avenue in Cortez, Colo. during a Queer Byke Brigade event. Photo by Corey Robinson / Special to The Colorado Trust

When she was 25 years old, restaurant worker Shelby Cunliffe biked with a friend from Guatemala to Illinois. For Cunliffe, riding a bicycle is a “form of liberation.”

For Kit Jones, who evaluates local policies and systems change initiatives across the state for the University of Colorado, bicycling is “a super therapeutic process… [it] helps to kind of, like, reset your nervous system.”

And for Clara Moulton, who is a field specialist for The Wilderness Society, riding a bicycle “is just a simple way of existing.”

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