That's brilliant Leah! If anyone csn sell people on riding bikes for daily activities, it's you! Good on ya!
On Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 6:18:49 PM UTC-5 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > My love for my new home state is well-documented. After 18 years of desert > living, we moved to Michigan, where none of us Petersons had set foot prior > to the job interview. > > I have finally found a biking community, right here in a state that has > winter. > > Anyway, I got asked to be on a committee that would help launch a new > initiative to get more people on bikes. There is a lot of lovely new > infrastructure in downtown, and we are hoping to get people to use it to > get to work/events/dining/shopping. We are using the app Love to Ride, > which will allow people in the city and surrounding areas to sign up, join > the challenge and compete against other people for a 2 week challenge in > May. The city is eager to have the data that the heat maps will generate, > showing where people are riding and where they are not. Hopefully this > influences further infrastructure in the near future. > > Today there was a local news article, and one of the men I’m serving with > is pictured with his RIVENDELL. Paul’s brother John Sotherland built the > Rivendell frames at Waterford back in…whatever day that was. I almost never > saw other Rivs in the other places I’ve lived, but Michigan has plenty of > them. > > Here’s the article: > https://www.secondwavemedia.com/southwest-michigan/features/Kalamazoo-Commuter-Challenge-encourage-new-cyclists.051624.aspx > > Leah > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/e60733f0-3989-4b23-a843-282dfce66ee8n%40googlegroups.com.
