If you're a bicycle commuter, or would like to be, May is certainly your month.
Communities across the US are sponsoring bike-to-work activities in May to urge people out of their cars and onto their bikes. In many places that support evaporates quickly, but by then it's hoped that commuters have been inspired to ride their bikes regularly.
Many month-long bike commuter contests begin today. Other dates to remember are National Bike Week from May 12 – 16, and Bike to Work Day on May 16 (other dates in some locales). Check the League of American Bicyclists Bike Month Events page for local listings.
Seattle-based Cascade Bicycle Club is sponsoring events in May, featuring the month-long Group Health Commute Challenge, Vulcan Bike to Work Breakfast, May 7, and the Starbucks Bike-to-Work Day, 6-9 a.m., May 16, when 40 stations are set up around the Puget Sound to help bicyclists get to work.
The League and the Bicycle Alliance of Washington lists other Bike to Work events for Washington state in Olympia, Snohomish County, Spokane, Tacoma, and Whatcom County.
Bike to Work activities in selected cities (note the dates):
Chicagoland Bicycle Federation — Bike to Work Week, June 7-13
Denver COG — Bike to Work day, June 25
Los Angeles County — Bike to Work Day, May 15
San Francisco Bike Coaltion — Bike to Work Day, May 15
Washington (DC) Area Bicyclist Association — Bike to Work Day, May 16
Photo above is a mechanic tuning a bike at 2007 bike to work rest stop in Seattle
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