What We Do

Bikes Belong works to put more people on bicycles more often. From helping create safe places to ride to promoting bicycling, we carefully select projects and partnerships that have the capacity to make a difference.

We concentrate our efforts in four areas:

• Federal Policy and Funding
  • Lobbying
  • National Bike Summit
  • BikesPAC
  • Overview of SAFETEA-LU
• National Partnerships
  • Safe Routes to School
  • Bicycle Friendly Communities
  • National Groups We Support
  • Interbike
  • National Conferences

• Community Grants

• Learn more about the grants we’ve awarded in your area by viewing our grants map or searching our grants database.
• Learn more about who is eligible to apply for Bikes Belong funding, and what we do and don’t fund.
• At the bottom of this page, you can view a pamphlet highlighting our Grants Program.
• If you’re looking for information about our REI/Bicycle Friendly Community grants, click here.

Support letters from the local bicycle industry are KEY
to your proposal. Letters from Bikes Belong members—retailers and
suppliers—will strengthen your application. Please ask your supporters
to address their letters to the Bikes Belong Grant Committee, as form
letters will not be considered. Click here to view a list of Bikes Belong members.

Promoting Bicycling

Bike Sharing — We teamed with Humana to provide 1,000 loaner bikes during the 2008 Democratic and Republican national conventions. Learn more.

Bicycling Booklet — We’ve distributed 30,000 copies of our booklet, Bicycling – Moving America Forward, which highlights the benefits of bicycling.

Statistics — We facilitate communication among the leading sources of bicycle industry statistics …. In addition, we’re assembling data on the benefits of bicycling to help make a case with community and government leaders.

Photos — We conduct professional photo shoots to capture high-quality riding images, and then share these images to help others promote bicycling.

Videos — We’ve started creating videos now and then, if we think of a good story to tell. Plus our ace videographer, Mat, sometimes gets a wild hair up his sleeve. Check out our video about:
Vélib (the Paris bike rental system)
Bike commuting
The innovative Freiker program, which is encouraging kids to ride to school
Coming soon: the story of how Boulder became a gold-level Bicycle Friendly Community