It’s Could, which is after all Bike Month:
This would possibly seem to be factor, however when you think about they often solely dedicate total months to terminal ailments and the gravest of social points you start to appreciate that as a bike owner you’re simply one thing else most individuals would favor not to consider.
So is Bike Month even nonetheless related in 2025? Most likely not–and but by some means it’s nonetheless a factor. To attempt to perceive why, I undertook a fast survey of how we’re observing it across the nation and past:
Ohio
So how do you get extra folks on bikes? Do you construct extra protected bicycle infrastructure? Do you implement insurance policies akin to congestion pricing to scale back car site visitors? Do you present quick access to bike share? Do you construct safe bike parking? Finally, encouraging significant numbers of individuals to embrace utilizing the bicycle as transportation most likely requires a concerted effort to implement all of these items.
Then there’s the the other method, which is to throw up your palms and say, “Fuck it, let’s simply dump a bunch of helmets:”
I’m not saying that is all Ohio is doing to advertise secure bicycling. I’m additionally not saying folks shouldn’t put on helmets (even when I’ll secretly be considering it). I’m simply saying giving out 13,000 of them smacks of desperation, like airdropping a bunch of provides right into a catastrophe space. They’re even calling it “Put A Lid On It,” which is simply barely extra well mannered than “Cease complaining and put on this:”
I’d like to understand how a lot cash it prices cities to do large-scale helmet giveaways like this, and what number of bikes they might be shopping for for teenagers as a substitute.
New York Metropolis
Right here in New York, the Division of Transportation has revealed an inventory of family-friendly bike routes the place you’ll discover temporary respite from all of the weed-addled drivers in vehicles with paper license plates:
Oddly, the longest route is in Manhattan, though it’s the smallest borough by geography, which simply appears unfair:
Not solely that, however many of the Bronx route [PDF] is in Manhattan too:
See?
The Bronx has probably the most parkland of any borough and not less than two large parks with sufficient bike path to make a family-friendly bike route of a mile or two a no brainer–one with a seashore and one with a pool–and but the route the DOT comes up with is designed to easily get you and your loved ones out of the Bronx altogether, go determine.
San Diego
Bike To Work Day is a staple of Bike Month, however now that so many individuals keep residence and work of their underpants San Diego is altering its method:
In fact that is unlikely to assist as a result of when you work at home you most likely additionally train at residence and have all of your purchases delivered and do just about the whole lot else from residence, too:
I’d have gone with “Go For A Trip And Then Go To Work Day,” since a morning experience adopted by a day of working in your underpants is as shut as many people will ever get to residing the dream.
However hey, 30+ years of Bike To Work Day was run. Sadly, I give Bike Wherever Day not more than 10 years earlier than it turns into We Know You’re Gonna Drive, Simply Attempt Not To Run Anyone Over Day.
Raleigh
San Diego could also be giving up on Bike To Work Day throughout Bike Month, however Raleigh is giving up on bikes altogether:
This one actually hurts:
The promo code must be BETRAYAL. The scooter is the pure enemy of the bicycle; the invasive species that has destroyed our habitat. It’s like freely giving free free Popeye’s hen throughout American Coronary heart Month.
United Kingdom
I don’t know if they’ve Bike Month over there, however they do have a bicycling viola da gambist:
Sarah Small is touring by bicycle in an effort to spare the world the environmental impression of flying:
This could function a shining instance to all these different viola da gambists on the market touring from enviornment to enviornment by non-public jet.
Simply name her Taylor Gradual.
