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Distance: 31 Miles

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Own Your Backyard: How Industry Partnerships Transformed Youth Cycling in Payson, Arizona

December 17th, 2025

At PeopleForBikes, we believe that when communities and the bike industry work together, big things happen. In Payson, Arizona, a powerful partnership between national brands, local champions, and a committed nonprofit created a thriving model for youth cycling and community recreation that can be r ...

Riding Together: How El Tour de Tucson Boosts Participation, Community, and the Local Economy

December 3rd, 2025

Photo courtesy of Kathleen Dreier ...

2025 Marks a Record-Setting Year for Expanding Electric Mountain Bike Access

October 27th, 2025

2025 is a historic year for expanding access for electric mountain bikes (eMTB) on trails nationwide. Through persistent advocacy, strategic partnerships, and a shared vision for the future of trail recreation, PeopleForBikes helped open 17,686 new miles of trails to Class 1 eMTBs across the United ...

Building Better Communities: Paradise Valley’s Transformation From Aging Mall to Bikeable Community

July 31st, 2025

Community members gather in Paradise Valley’s Central Park for Sunday Sweat. Photo courtesy: RED Development ...

Building Better Communities Spotlight: Ryan Johnson + Culdesac

June 5th, 2025

Photo courtesy of Culdesac ...

Advancing Resilience and Access to Biking in Tucson

March 13th, 2025

For the second year in a row, sustainability sponsors at PeopleForBikes’ Bicycle Leadership Conference will support local biking efforts in the city of Tucson. This year, BOSCH, Ortlieb, the Outdoor Industry Association, and Zwift are providing funding to a successful bike program led by FUGA — Fami ...

PeopleForBikes Industry Community Grants Are Supporting Youth Bicycling Nationwide

January 28th, 2025

Los Angeles Bike Academy Executive Director Damon Turner coaches young athletes as part of the many neighborhood services of the South Los Angeles nonprofit. PHOTO CREDIT: Science in Sport ...

PeopleForBikes' 2024 Industry Community Grants Recipients

December 16th, 2024

On December 11, the PeopleForBikes Coalition Board of Directors approved our 2024 Industry Community Grants, totaling $75,000 across 10 grants. The grants will help fund projects that support our focus on building infrastructure that makes communities across the U.S. great places to ride a bike. Thi ...

Reconnecting With Joy: How a Simple Bike Bus Transformed a Neighborhood and Its Families

July 18th, 2024

When Britton Zoggs and her husband Arthur moved to the Broadmor neighborhood in south Tempe, Arizona, they did so for their daughter. They wanted her to live close enough to bike to elementary school. What they didn’t expect is how that decision would change their lives by being reunited with the jo ...

Meet the Better Bike Share Partnership's New Living Lab Grantees

May 6th, 2024

The Better Bike Share Partnership, a collaboration between PeopleForBikes, the City of Philadelphia, and the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), is proud to announce its second cohort of Living Labs focused on creating replicable programs for improving shared micromobility ...

Bike Share Gets a Boost in Tucson

April 5th, 2024

While prioritizing sustainability at conferences is not a new concept, including bike share in conference sustainability efforts is certainly less common. Thanks to our generous 2024 Bicycle Leadership Conference (BLC) sustainability sponsors Revelyst and Ortlieb, as well as Tugo Bike Share in Tucso ...

PeopleForBikes' 2023 Industry Community Grants Recipients

December 13th, 2023

On December 12, the PeopleForBikes Coalition Board of Directors approved our 2023 Industry Community Grants recipients, totaling $100,000 in funding across 13 grants. The grants will help fund projects that support our focus on building infrastructure that makes communities great places to ride a bi ...

From Bloomington, Indiana to Portland, Oregon (pictured above), protected bike lanes of all shapes and sizes transformed U.S. communities in 2022. (Photo Credit: David Evans and Associates, Inc.)

The Best New U.S. Bike Lanes

January 27th, 2023

With more protected bike lanes and low-stress bike networks being built across the country than ever before, we had a tough time picking this past year’s best new bike lanes. While numerous projects deserve recognition, we rounded up the top nine projects worth emulating. ...