DIY events: turn your workplace or neighborhood into a bicycling hotspot

Cascade Bicycle Club is rolling out an all-star line-up of events and activities for Bike Month. Now it's your turn! We invite communities, companies, and individuals to produce your own Bike Month events.

All smiles at a 2012 Capitol Hill DIY station

Show your support for bicycling this May and turn your neighborhood or workplace into the most bike-friendly space in town. It's  fun, easy and could turn your friend or coworker from a one-time rider into a year-round commuter. Cascade has some handy toolkits for organizing DIY events to help get you started.

 

Host a DIY commute station on F5 Bike to Work Day (or any day!)

Be a part of the largest rolling street party of the year! Tens of thousands of people will hit the road on F5 Bike to Work Day --Friday, May 17-- as part of a nationally recognized celebration of bicycling, and you can be part of it simply and easily! Set up a morning commute station in your neighborhood or at your workplace and offer treats, giveaways and encouragement to passing bicyclists. Use our simple toolkit to get started and let Cascade know about your station so we can publicize it on our online commute station map. Email Mary at btw@cascadebicycleclub.org to register your station. Commute stations can be a simple or robust as you make it--the sky is the limit! Remember, you can organize a commute station anytime during the year and make every day bike to work day!

 

Host another DIY event

The possibilities for fun, easy DIY bike-related events are endless. Here are a few suggestions to get your coworkers, friends and neighbors excited about getting around town on two wheels.

Organize a ride

  • Ride with your CEO
  • Ride with your elected official
  • Neighborhood bike-ability audit
  • Themed costume ride
  • Kid-ical Mass neighborhood ride

Plan an events

  • Rally
  • Please feed the bicyclists (free breakfast or lunch at work)
  • Bicycle fashion show
  • Kids bicycle rodeo
  • Bicycle Happy Hour
  • Flash mobs and cash mobs
  •  Bike scavenger hunt
  • Full moon midnight alley cat ride
  • Bicycle film night

Random Acts of Bikey-ness

  • Group photos
  • Hand out flowers to passing cyclists
  • Post thank you notes on parked bicycles

 

 

Organizing a DIY event is your big opportunity to make Bike Month your own and give bicycling a boost in your community. Remember, more people riding helps build a stronger case for bicycling improvements and safer streets for everyone. Not to mention that your community will be a more pleasant place to be.

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