National Bike Month

It’s National Bike Month and we’re looking forward to the third annual Bike to School Day coming up this Wednesday. This week, we’re spotlighting some of the local leaders who are making National Bike Month — and every month! — a family affair. Today’s post comes from Dena Driscoll of Kidical Mass Philadelphia.

With support from the City of Burlington and the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, Local Motion organizes a series of events for Bike-Walk Month. Our headliner event for this year is an advocacy party, with food carts, a beer truck, national speakers, and all kinds of fun stuff. We’ll also be organizing laid- back rides and commuter bike upfits, blanketing the sidewalks with stenciled walk-bike safety messages, getting kids and parents out on the street with signs asking cars to slow down, handing out chocolates to bike riders on National Bike to Work Day, and a whole lot more.

At Neighborhood Bike Works, we aim to turn our kids’ creativity into transportation creation. And Bike Month means putting that artistry on display during the Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby. Each February, when after-school riding opportunities are minimal, we open up a unique class that gets our kids’ artistic gears turning. The local artists-in-residency program (40th Street AIR) lead youth on a journey to create a bicycle sculpture for the Derby. From a pirate ship to a prehistoric shark to an alien space craft, their ideas never fail to awe and inspire.

Last year we took a look at the many faces of Bike Month — from advocacy groups to bike shops, May is an opportunity for bikes to unite. Over the next several days, we’ll be highlighting some of the stories — and faces — we featured in our American Bicyclist magazine for Bike Month 2013. Today, we’re taking a look at a story by Molly North, interim coordinator for Fort Collins’ Bike Program, about the city’s love of bicycling during Bike Month and beyond!

At Revolution Cycles, our mission is to get more butts on bikes, so we look forward to Bike Month every year. In Washington D.C., Virginia and Maryland, we provide free tech support on Bike to Work Day at many of our area’s busiest pit stops. We get our best mechanics out of bed before the sun comes up, pump them full of coffee and bagels, and set them loose to help the thousands of commuters who ride through the local stops.

Last year we took a look at the many faces of Bike Month — from advocacy groups to bike shops, May is an opportunity for bikes to unite .Over the next several days, we’ll be highlighting some of the stories — and faces — we featured in our American Bicyclist magazine for Bike Month 2013. Today, we’re taking a look at a story by Juta Geurtsen, of the Boise Bicycle Project, about the organization’s Bike Builder’s Gallery.

While we love and promote riding every day of the year, there’s a certain magic to National Bike Month each May. We invite you to share what you have planned and take advantage of our Bike Month resources and materials — including a planning guide, posters and web collateral.