It’s Might, which is in fact Bike Month:
This may appear to be an excellent factor, however when you think about they often solely dedicate whole months to terminal ailments and the gravest of social points you start to comprehend that as a bicycle owner you’re simply one thing else most individuals would like not to consider.
So is Bike Month even nonetheless related in 2025? In all probability not–and but by some means it’s nonetheless a factor. To attempt to perceive why, I undertook a fast survey of how we’re observing it across the nation and past:
Ohio
So how do you get extra individuals on bikes? Do you construct extra protected bicycle infrastructure? Do you implement insurance policies equivalent to congestion pricing to cut back car site visitors? Do you present easy accessibility to bike share? Do you construct safe bike parking? In the end, encouraging significant numbers of individuals to embrace utilizing the bicycle as transportation most likely requires a concerted effort to implement all of this stuff.
Then there’s the the alternative strategy, which is to throw up your palms and say, “Fuck it, let’s simply dump a bunch of helmets:”
I’m not saying that is all Ohio is doing to advertise protected bicycling. I’m additionally not saying individuals shouldn’t put on helmets (even when I could secretly be considering it). I’m simply saying giving out 13,000 of them smacks of desperation, like airdropping a bunch of provides right into a catastrophe space. They’re even calling it “Put A Lid On It,” which is barely barely extra well mannered than “Cease complaining and put on this:”
I’d like to understand how a lot cash it prices cities to do large-scale helmet giveaways like this, and what number of bikes they may very well be shopping for for teenagers as a substitute.
New York Metropolis
Right here in New York, the Division of Transportation has revealed an inventory of family-friendly bike routes the place you’ll discover transient respite from all of the weed-addled drivers in automobiles with paper license plates:
Oddly, the longest route is in Manhattan, despite the fact that it’s the smallest borough by geography, which simply appears unfair:
Not solely that, however a lot of the Bronx route [PDF] is in Manhattan too:
See?
The Bronx has essentially the most parkland of any borough and at the very least two large parks with sufficient bike path to make a family-friendly bike route of a mile or two a no brainer–one with a seaside and one with a pool–and but the route the DOT comes up with is designed to easily get you and your loved ones out of the Bronx altogether, go determine.
San Diego
Bike To Work Day is a staple of Bike Month, however now that so many individuals keep dwelling and work of their underpants San Diego is altering its strategy:
After all that is unlikely to assist as a result of should you make money working from home you most likely additionally train at dwelling and have all of your purchases delivered and do just about all the pieces else from dwelling, too:
I’d have gone with “Go For A Experience And Then Go To Work Day,” since a morning journey adopted by a day of working in your underpants is as shut as many people will ever get to dwelling the dream.
However hey, 30+ years of Bike To Work Day was an excellent run. Sadly, I give Bike Anyplace Day not more than 10 years earlier than it turns into We Know You’re Gonna Drive, Simply Strive Not To Run Anyone Over Day.
Raleigh
San Diego could also be giving up on Bike To Work Day throughout Bike Month, however Raleigh is giving up on bikes altogether:
This one actually hurts:
The promo code ought to be BETRAYAL. The scooter is the pure enemy of the bicycle; the invasive species that has destroyed our habitat. It’s like making a gift of free free Popeye’s rooster throughout American Coronary heart Month.
United Kingdom
I don’t know if they’ve Bike Month over there, however they do have a bicycling viola da gambist:
Sarah Small is touring by bicycle to be able to spare the world the environmental influence of flying:
This could function a shining instance to all these different viola da gambists on the market touring from enviornment to enviornment by personal jet.
Simply name her Taylor Gradual.