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TMBA is requesting your help! As you may know, May is Bike Month here in the Truckee Meadows. TMBA has a Bike Month Event Calendar, where folks can see all the events happening during the month. We’re asking for your help making sure our calendar is complete.
Do you have an event or promotion you’d like us to include on the calendar? Please let us know! These can be recurring, or one-time events, special rider discounts you’re offering, or similar. The calendar is active year-round, so if your event is before May or after May, no worries, send it anyway.
TMBA is also planning on having a few raffles at our events. If your shop has anything you’d like to donate for a raffle, we’ll highlight your shop and donations in our newsletters and give you a big shout-out at the event raffles.
Simply send us the details of your event and donations, and we’ll put it on the calendar and arrange to pick up any donations.
May is National Bike Month! Bike Month is all about highlighting the many benefits of riding a bike and encouraging more people to try biking. The best way to celebrate Bike Month is simply to get on a bike: ride to work, ride to the store or just ride and enjoy the scenery outside. Join us on the fun and learn more about how to celebrate Bike Month in Washoe County.
Visit the official Northern Nevada Public Health Bike Month Site by Clicking Here!
The Commuter Challenge provides a way to promote teamwork within your business, create a healthier workplace and get people excited about bicycling. Sign up here.
Fun: This is a team-building experience that will help build camaraderie in the workplace and be able to compete against other businesses in their industry, their region and throughout the country.
Health: Riding makes your workplace healthier!
Economics: Employees can reduce car maintenance, fuel and parking expenses. Employers will benefit from reduced health care costs.
Environment: Bicycling reduces emissions and greenhouse gasses. Nearly 50 percent of all trips in metropolitan areas are three miles or less and 28 percent are one mile or less – distances easily covered by bicycle!
Promotion: The Challenge is a free and easy way to offer a local/statewide bike competition and participate in the national event. It provides data, healthy competition and a way to promote your organization or business.
Celebration: Joining the Challenge is a great way to kick off National Bike Month and build relationships within your own business, as well as with local, state, regional and national business communities.
First, be sure to sign up.
Visit the RTC Commute Challenge page or create a template for your commute
Register your company by contacting the RTC Trip Reduction Specialist at 775-335-1920 or SMiklos@rtcwashoe.com. Following registration, we’ll provide you with instructions for customizing your organization’s area of the website.
Contact the RTC Trip Reduction Specialist at 775-335-1920 or SMiklos@rtcwashoe.com to find out if a team already exists or ask your employer
During Bike Month, various small businesses and community organizations are offering bike month participants some goodies. We’ll keep a running list below.
Hub Coffee Roasters: 1 free 8oz cup of coffee — coffee, not latte — for any cyclist that comes in with a bike AND helmet to any of our locations (Riverside & Pine).
Swill Coffee and Wine: 1 free 8 oz drip coffee or 16 oz bottled water — for any cyclist that comes in with a bike AND helmet (use the bike rack to the left of the entrance)
These discounts are always available.
Brewers Cabinet: $1 off pints if you arrive on a bike (bike rack available)
Pedaler’s Deli: 10% off if you arrive on your bike (bike rack available)
If you’re a small business that would like to participate, drop-us a note at events@bikewashoe.org.
We couldn’t pull off this year’s Bike Month without the following team:
To volunteer, write to info@BikeWashoe.org
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