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May is Bike Month!

Why does the nation’s largest bike club get behind Bike Month?

It’s more than just a feel-good event for us.

Cascade Bicycle Club believes that bicycle activities can help promote individual health and recreation as well as have positive impacts on the community and environment. On a daily basis, we work to educate and advocate for a more livable, bicycle-friendly community.

Bike Month helps us reach our goals by:

getting more people riding more often more safely.
increasing the voice and visibility of the cycling community
leading the way toward improved facilities and the cycling environment.
promoting cycling as a transportation alternative

Bike Month helps the Puget Sound Region meet its goals of encouraging more bicycling for transportation. Specifically the city of Seattle’s new Bicycle Master Plan specifies a goal of tripling the use of bicycling in Seattle for all trip purposes by 2017. Cascade works towards that goal by providing commute programs for individuals and businesses.

We also know that when there are more cyclists on the road, they are more visible, motorists are better prepared to deal with them, and the rate of accidents involving vehicles lowers. We also know that cycling for transportation is better for the environment and individual health. The more cyclists on the road, and the more visible we are, the more the city and county governments help us to improve facilities and conditions for bicycling.

Help bicyclists in the city become more visible by joining us by riding through Bike Month... and beyond!

But to make the biggest impact, join the largest bike club in the nation, and make your voice heard!

Check out the Bike Month Schedule of Events.

Vulcan Bike to Work Breakfast

Kick of a month of activities with networking, inspiration and a fundraiser: the Vulcan Bike to Work Breakfast, a benefit for the Cascade Bicycle Club Education Foundation. If your company is interested in attending, register soon. Tables are filling like hotcakes!

Starbucks Bike to Work Day

Cascade Bicycle Club Education Foundation is proud to bring you the annual Starbucks Bike to Work Day. Frustrated with driving? Missed the bus again? Want to find a better way to get to your work or school? Why not try riding your bike? It's fun, easy, healthy and contagious!

Group Health Commute Challenge

For the fifth annual Group Health Commute Challenge, teams and individuals may sign-up to compete in our thirty-day bicycle commute challenge and win fabulous prizes. During May, riders can also stop by one of our afternoon bike rallies for information, live music, snacks and great give-aways!

Registration opens in mid April.

Bike to School Day and Month

Get your child involved in active transportation and help them bike to school in the month of May! The CBC Education Foundation will be helping select schools throughout the Seattle area get kids on bikes through Bike to School Month activities.

Volunteer Today!

Bike Month activities couldn't happen without your help. Please volunteer today!