Rising USA Cycling star Magnus White was hit and killed by a driver while bicycling home from a training ride on the Diagonal Highway in Boulder last July. He was just 17 years old.
Magnus’s parents, Jill and Michael White, founded a nonprofit organization, The White Line, to honor his legacy and to fight for safe streets and roads for everyone. “We don’t want anyone else to have to lose someone” like they did, Jill White said at a recent meeting of the Boulder Chamber Transportation Connections Transportation Advisory Council.
On Sunday, August 11, The White Line will host the first memorial Ride for Magnus: Ride for Your Life in what they hope will be the largest advocacy bike ride in United States history. “We really want to get to 4,000 participants – to hit that capacity” for the ride, said Michael White. With more than 1,000 people already registered by mid-July, the organizers were confident they would reach their goal.
Register now for the 13.5-mile bike ride from the University of Colorado Boulder’s Farrand Field to the site of Magnus’s ghost bike on CO 119 and back. There will also be a one-mile memorial walk on the CU-Boulder campus, followed by a rally featuring Governor Jared Polis and other notable speakers from Trek, USA Cycling and the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The event will also feature a transportation and advocacy expo after the ride. Stop by our Transportation Connections table to say hi and show your support for the development of safe infrastructure to protect all vulnerable road users in the city of Boulder.
Learn more about Magnus, his ambitious life and the tragedy of his death in a Lives Worth Remembering short film here, and on The White Line website here.