The Love to Ride Blog

Creating a more bike friendly world

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10 Love to Ride programs

Changing people’s behavior is complex work and takes time. Thankfully, The Love to Ride team has been figuring out how to change people's bike riding behavior for more than 20 years now! We’ve pulled ...

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The Beca Sustainable Traveller Badge - a tool to encourage more transportation trips!

As part of the 2022 Aotearoa Bike Challenge, the most successful bike riding behaviour change program of its kind in the world, we were excited to partner with the carbon committed folks at Beca to la...

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How we’re getting more people engaged for the Bike Month Challenge UK

We know that great engagement is key to the success of a big biking campaign like the Bike Month Challenge. Here are 4 things that we do here at Love to Ride to engage more people: 1. Make it Social (...

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32,992 people registered to ride in the Aotearoa Bike Challenge 2022

Each February, we ran the Aotearoa Bike Challenge in New Zealand and 2022 was another hugely successful campaign. Occurring amidst some of the most rigid COVID 19 movement restrictions in New Zealand,...

Bike Month Tips: Engaging Co-workers

Want to get more of your co-workers riding and smiling during Bike Month. Our CEO, Thomas, shares some of his top tips gathered over 20 years of running biking encouragement programs. Watch the 9-minu...

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How we work with cities and regions to get more people engaged in Bike Month

Here are 4 things that we do here at Love to Ride to engage more people in our Bike Month campaigns: 1. Make it Social (check out our blog on team challenges) Humans are social creatures. Our programs...

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Our partnership with The Bikeability Trust

We've teamed up with The Bikeability Trust to help more people fall in love with cycling.

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New Feature Release: Insights Dashboard

Our new Insights Dashboard brings your data to life. There is still a place for the humble spreadsheet, but not if you want to track live data in an easy to interpret way. 📊 Don’t want to wait for re...

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The Bike Month Challenge - teamwork makes the dreamwork

Bike Month is taking on a new look for 2022 - we have tweaked the format to make it more social and effective than ever before. Over the past 15 years we have refined our campaigns and tested out vari...

Going by bike: A child's perspective

Active travel amongst children has long been an interest for many of the organizations and partners Love to Ride works with. While our main campaigns focus on the bike riding behavior of adults, we to...

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How to engage key communities in your biking programs

Effectively engaging people and communities in our programs has been key to the success of Love to Ride. Below is a brief introduction to some of the ways that diversity, equity, and inclusion are emb...

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2021 - it's been a ride!

It's been 35,272,721 rides to be exact! As the year draws to a close, we have taken a deep dive into the data and have a lot to share with you. Spotify might be able to tell you which song you listene...

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