Kimmerjae meets with Lisa Green and Perry Brooks of the Parks Department. They deliver two options offered by the City’s Risk Manager: lift the entire sculpture as designed 7 feet off the ground or move the location to the South end of the park to give it a clear distinction from the playground area. Due [...]

The proposal includes a detailed description of the project, its sources and potential benefits to the City, engineering documents, assessment of maintenance requirements, and studies of comparable installations in Boulder and Denver.

Jeff Ruppert and Ian Smith complete their structural analysis and specifications for the project, taking the approach of generalizing the form and making minimum dimension requirements for the sculptural beam. Slight adjustments throughout the entire work are required. Another 50 hours are invested by the artist to produce a third version of the model.

To ensure structural integrity of the sculpture, the initial approach involves redrawing the complex SketchUp model in SolidWorks for computer analysis. Aspects of the form present challenges that impede the SolidWorks translation. This approach is abandoned after several months, when Adam is whisked away as field engineer for James Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey project.

JP Boylan — an engineer, cyclist and builder of custom bicycle frames and trailers — is identified through a search as the ideal person to do the metal fabrication work for the monument project. JP, also a resident of the Newlands neighborhood which includes North Boulder Park, agrees to join the building team, and becomes [...]

The City of Boulder developed a Public Art Policy and sent a draft of the document to the monument team. The Policy will require a new proposal to be submitted for the Cycling Monument Project to comply with the new formal process.

Michael Aisner, announcing a race in Minnesota, addresses the Commission in support of the project via recorded audio. Members of the Commission review drawings of the proposed installation while listening to Michael’s energetic delivery of the story of the race and meaning of the monument project from a laptop computer. With an acknowledgment that the [...]

The second version of the model is designed to meet the City of Boulder’s safety and accessibility standards. 200 design hours are invested in the revision.

U.S. Cycling Monument representatives concluded eight months of meetings with Boulder’s Special Teams to address all concerns related to public safety. Between October 2006 and April 2007, periodic meetings were held with Mike Mundy, Helen Gavin, Carey Sager and Tom Peeples to review detailed drawings of the work and define changes needed to meet safety [...]

The sculptor shares her mission and logic of the design language chosen for the work.