The Jefferson County Board of Commissioners gave the thumbs-down Tuesday to a Conifer downhill bike park that proposed 16 miles of winding trails descending an 830-foot vertical drop — all of it served by a chairlift.

Some Colorado residents in Jefferson County made their voices heard and county leaders voted against a proposal for a new bike park on Tuesday. The bike park would have been called the Shadow Mountain Bike Park and it would have been built on more than 200 acres of land near Conifer.

The bike park would have been called the Shadow Mountain Bike Park and it would have been built on more than 200 acres of land near Conifer.

An online invite for a group bike ride in search of good dumplings proved so popular in China, that it brought some roads to a standstill.

It started as a social media quest for breakfast dumplings, but ended with thousands of cyclists bringing traffic gridlock between two cities in central China. What should have been a boost to the ancient city of Kaifeng’s economy backfired when the trend went viral - tens of thousands on rented bikes cycled through the night from nearby Zhenghou.