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Congratulations to New and Renewed Bicycle Friendly Communities!

By bikeleague | May 14, 2012
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Kicking off National Bike to Work Week, today the League announced the largest round of Bicycle Friendly Communities (BFC) in the program’s history. While communities from California to Connecticut joined…

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Why I Ride #14: To Stop and Smell the Cupcakes

By bikeleague | May 14, 2012
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(Brian Griggs  — along with Rick Smith — is the author of the popular bicycling comic, Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery.) When I was a kid, the bicycle was…

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Why I Ride #13: Self Expression and Style

By bikeleague | May 13, 2012
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(Robin Bylenga is the founder of Pedal Chic, the nation’s first woman-owned, women-specific bike store, based in Greenville, South Carolina.) Yes, there are crystal chandeliers in Robin Bylenga’s bike shop…

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Why I Ride #12: Freedom and Equality

By bikeleague | May 12, 2012
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(Nino Pacini is a board member for Programs to Educate All Cyclists in Michigan and the founder of its 2×2 program, which allows people with visual impairments the opportunity to…

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Week 2 Challenge Recap: 20,000 Riders and Counting

By bikeleague | May 11, 2012
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Just two weeks in, we’re already on track to far exceed our goal of 50,000 riders in the National Bike Challenge. And the team spirit is strong in the Endomondo…

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Bike Month Round-Up: Beer, Governors, Film Noire and More…

By bikeleague | May 11, 2012
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National Bike Month is in full effect and, as anticipated, the wheels are turning in communities from coast to coast. Perhaps most notably, it was a big week in the…

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Why I Ride #11: My Bike is a Time Machine

By bikeleague | May 11, 2012
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(Natalie Ramsland is the founder and framebuilder behind Sweetpea Bicycles in Portland, Oregon.) Inga Ramsland takes a ride in the time machine My bike is a time machine. It isn’t…

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Pictures from National Bike to School Day!

By bikeleague | May 10, 2012
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Grace Williams wasn’t the only happy bicyclist who participated in National Bike to School Day yesterday. From coast to coast, thousands of kids pedaled to class making the first ever…

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Why I Ride #10: Fun, Plain and Simple

By bikeleague | May 10, 2012
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(Carlos Morales is the Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator for the City of Omaha, Nebraska) Carlos Morales Like many others, I began my love affair with biking at an early age.…

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Happy Bike to School Day

By Scott | May 9, 2012
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I skipped the Capitol Hill press conference this morning to participate in the Takoma Park, Maryland, bike to school day with my daughter, Grace. Grace and I ride to her…

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