Some Ways to Celebrate National Bike Month
Most, but not all of these are posted on the League of American Bicyclists website
- Decorate a cake or cookies with a bicycle theme.
- Ride with your child to school
- Make a CD of songs with the bicycle in the title or the band name. Suggestions
include The Bicycle Thieves, Bicycle Race by Queen, and a Bicycle Named Heaven.
- Ride your first century (100 miles)
- Give a Progressive Dinner on a bike
- Do a chalk drawing in front of your house wishing a happy birthday to bicycling
- Decorate your helmet
- Wear spandex to your next board meeting
- Write your congressman about the importance of bicycling
- Plan a cycling vacation
- Organize a neighborhood bike parade or ride
- Read a book on the history of bicycling
- Visit the Bicycle Museum of America in New Bremen Ohio
- Purchase a Share the Road License plate
- Attach a playing card to your bike wheel and ride around like you did when
you were a little kid.
- Take a Family Bike Ride
- Rent a classic bicycling movie and invite friends in to watch
- Ask your employer to install bike rack at your workplace
- Ask your employer to provide showers at work
- Write a letter to the paper on the virtues of bicycling
- Invite a local official to ride with you on your next outing
- Invite a non-riding neighbor out for a ride
- Write a thank you letter to COBAC or the Ohio Bicycle Federation for the work
they do.
- Ride a different type of bike than usual: Try a tandem, a tricycle, unicycle
or recumbent
- Teach a child to ride.
- Become a COP Ride Leader
- If you are not riding TOSRV, VOLUNTEER!
- Unsafe riding conditions between your house and work? Take COTA part of the
way (your bike rides free) or drive halfway, then pedal the rest.
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