The Love to Ride Blog

Creating a more bike friendly world

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...

The Riders Behind the Data 2021

2021 has been a whirlwind of bike rides, badges, challenges, and lasting behavior change. Around the globe, the Love to Ride community has overcome barriers, pushed themselves to ride more, and encour...

Our Behavior Change Framework

This 2-minute video explains how we've integrated Behavior Change Theory into the Love to Ride platform over the last decade. And, the stats show it's working... On average: 40% of non-cyclists start ...

Pedalling on COP26

World leaders are congregating in Glasgow for COP26. The world is at a pivotal moment in history and tough decisions need to be made. But there are amazing solutions out there and we still have an opp...

Intentions beyond September

Year in, year out the Love to Ride team delivers Cycle September, our global workplace biking challenge. With a particular focus on recruiting businesses, this friendly competition gives them an oppor...

Winter Riding? Snow Problem.

When the nights draw in and the thermometer drops, it’s fair to say cycling slinks down the agenda for many people. On top of the winter chill, lower light levels and less predictable weather are addi...

Join the "Let's get the world riding bikes" community on Discord!

With fewer conferences taking place (and more of them moving online than ever before) we’ve lost some of those much-loved opportunities to meet each other and exchange ideas and what's working. So, we...

Supporting Scottish Workplaces

Did you know that over half of all journeys taken in Scotland are under 3.2 miles and 15% are under 0.7 miles? This means that hopping on a bike could be a great option for many of your employees.

Devon County Council - behaviour change in action

Love to Ride has worked with Devon County Council to get more people on bikes since 2016. Over the past 5 years, individuals and organizations in Devon have clocked up more than 8-million miles, encou...

How about decreasing transportation emissions, right now?

You may think there wasn’t a lot of good news in the 3,900-page IPCC report released in August. But we did find out that there is still time to avert the worst-case scenarios, and we have a 2-wheeled ...

New riders average 4 miles when riding for transportation

More and more people have been taking to pedal power over the last year. It’s a global trend we’re happy to see but even better is the data on rides for transportation purposes. For example, following...

We’re shifting gears: Share of women riding continues to increase

We’re continuing to see an upward trend in women participating in our Love to Ride programs. During the Bike Month Challenge 2021 we saw that an average 40% of registrants across the USA were women, a...

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