Free shuttles planned from Tour de Fat to CSU game

CSU football fans who want to participate in the Tour de Fat before Saturday’s game against Savannah State will be able to ride free shuttle buses from the end of the bicycle parade to Hughes Stadium and back, school officials announced Monday.

The university said it has partnered with organizers of the Tour de Fat, a bicycle tour run by New Belgium that draws thousands of participants each Labor Day weekend, to provide shuttle buses from Old Town to the stadium before the game and back to Old Town afterward.

The Tour de Fat bicycle parade begins at 10 a.m. in Old Town. Events associated with the Tour de Fat continue throughout the day.

Kickoff for Colorado State University’s season-opening football game against Savannah State is 2 p.m. at Hughes Stadium. The buses to the stadium will leave from 1-3 p.m. from the parking lot on the southwest corner of Mountain Avenue and Howes Street, across the street from St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, school officials said in a news release. Bicycles can be locked up and left there until 9 p.m. Buses from the stadium back to Old Town will begin running at the start of the fourth quarter and continue until one hour after the game has ended.

Ben Lorenzen, CSU’s senior associate athletic director for sales, marketing and communications, said the school realizes many people want to attend both events, “and we will now be able to make it even more efficient for our fans to enjoy both events with free round-trip shuttles for Tour de Fat.”

The football game is the annual Ag Day game for the Rams, preceded by a large barbecue. CSU players will wear orange jerseys and helmets with special orange Rams’ horns to commemorate the school’s agricultural roots. Fans also are urged to wear orange.

The original colors of Colorado A&M, as CSU was formerly known, were pumpkin (orange) and alfalfa (green).

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