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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 ...
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. ...
Our Top Adventure Biking Destinations
June 6th, 2022
Adventure is out there, you just have to bike to it! Adventure biking is all about taking exciting and out-of-the-box routes to see some of the most beautiful destinations our country has to offer. ...
Ride for Gratitude and the Navajo Nation
November 12th, 2021
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, our November Ride Spot Challenges are raising money for Silver Stallion, a bike nonprofit serving Dinétah. ...
The Making of a Bike Ecosystem
July 15th, 2021
In Arizona’s Verde Valley, PeopleForBikes and other partners are coming together to create a community hub for mountain biking. ...
Introducing Our Spring 2021 Community Grants Recipients
July 2nd, 2021
We recently awarded $50,000 to eight projects across eight states through our spring Industry Community Grants Program. ...
Pivot Cycles Is Welcoming Refugees to America
June 17th, 2021
The Arizona-based mountain bike company partnered with a local nonprofit to refurbish bikes for families in need. ...
“Where America Fails, So Have We in Bicycling.”
March 4th, 2021
A candid conversation with Charles T. Brown, the lead investigator of a new, groundbreaking report on barriers to biking in the U.S. ...
A Data-Driven Pandemic Response
February 2nd, 2021
Tucson, Arizona, a recipient of our 2020 COVID-19 Mobility Response Grant, used the funding to create an equitable Slow Streets program and build community through socially distanced events. ...
Cities Turn to Bike Networks For Recovery
July 14th, 2020
By April 2020, more than 200 U.S. cities changed the layout of their streets by eliminating through traffic, slowing cars and opening roadways for people of all ages and abilities to comfortably enjoy the outdoors while city parks, fitness centers and schools were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic ...
A Dozen Bucket List Rides for 2021
January 28th, 2020
We hope you’re gearing up to take some great rides in 2021. From oceanside coastal rides in the Pacific Northwest to gravel epics in Colorado to country road cruises in New York, we’ve compiled a list of 12 can’t-miss rides from 2020. Our new Ride Spot app will get you to each and guide you to great ...
America’s Best Large Cities for Biking
September 14th, 2018
What does it take to stand out as one of the nation’s best biking cities? We looked at our top-scoring large cities in the PlacesForBikes City Ratings — Portland, Oregon; Tucson, Arizona; San Diego, California; Madison, Wisconsin; and Washington, D.C. — to find out. ...
America’s Best Places for Bikes: Our New System Rates 480 U.S. Cities
May 2nd, 2018
The future of American bicycling is already here. It’s just that some cities are living it right now, and some aren’t yet. ...
eMTB Demo Program Part Three: Todd Seliga, Grand Canyon National Park
March 13th, 2018
Tucked into a far western corner of Grand Canyon National Park lies the Tuweep area, a place for remote experiences and uncrowded landscapes. Similar to the rest of the park, it offers a combination of magnificent scenery and rich history, something well worth the effort to get there. ...