Let the good times roll: Dozens participate in Boulder bike rodeo

By Eliza McLaughlin, reporter

June 27, 2023

60261b34e5fc4e58954907c7d41003d8 — Keagan Kesterson waves while participating in the first-ever Big Rock Bike Race. Dozens of children participated in the event on the Montana Highway Patrol campus on Thursday, June 22. (Eliza McLaughlin/The Monitor).

Seventy-five Boulder Elementary School students participated in the first-ever Big Rock Bike Rodeo on Thursday, June 22, learning about bike and road safety.

The event was organized by Deputy David Kosola of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department and featured a collaboration between Boulder Ambulance and the Montana Highway Patrol.

Participants gathered on the Boulder Elementary School playground, eager to rodeo. After some brief instructions from their teachers and Kosola, the bikers shot out of the chutes traveling down East 4th Avenue with smiles on their faces.