The COVID-19 pandemic brought unexpected challenges to the health, livelihood and well-being of communities across the world last year. Working, shopping and getting around fundamentally changed amidst global efforts to control the spread of the virus.In response to this increased interest in bicycling, PeopleForBikes launched a study of participation at the end of 2020 to better understand how personal riding habits changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results presented here mirrored the headlines published throughout the pandemic — Americans were riding bikes at unprecedented levels, increased sales of bicycles left store shelves and bike shops critically low of inventory and cities were closing streets to make way for this surge in bicycling.