Why Join Bikes Belong?

If you’re a U.S. bicycle supplier or retailer, Bikes Belong needs your support. We combine bicycle industry resources and focus them on tangible efforts to get more people on bikes more often. Your business benefits.

You probably want to support the effort to improve bike facilities and make bicycling better for everyone. But chances are, you’re often too busy to even think about advocacy or determine the best approach.

Bikes Belong takes the guesswork out of advocacy. We’re a professional, unified effort that is powered by the $6 billion-a-year U.S. bicycle industry. When you join, you add your weight to the collective strength of hundreds of other bike businesses. You can count on us to determine the optimum strategy for investing your membership dollars. We have proven leadership and proven success.

Top Three Reasons to Join Bikes Belong

1. We’re helping create better places to ride, which puts more people on bikes.
2. More people riding means more people buying bikes and equipment—and that’s good for business.
3. We maximize the leverage of your membership investment through our successful programs and powerful partnerships.

Some of Our Accomplishments

We helped gain $4.5 billion in federal money
Washington, DC Capitol	We invested $1 million in a coordinated lobbying effort that helped gain $4.5 billion for bicycling and walking the 2005 federal transportation law—SAFETEA-LU. This money is paying for new bike paths, trails, lanes, and programs nationwide. Learn more.
Our Grants Program creates great places to ride
North–South Greenway, Marin County, CA	Since 1999, the Bikes Belong Grants Program has awarded nearly $1.3 million in grants, leveraging more than $476 million in federal, state, and private funding. Our facilities grants alone have helped finance nearly 1,400 miles of bike paths and trails that link close to 6,400 miles of trail facilities. Learn more.
We get bicycling in the press
Tim Blumenthal on CNBC	Each year, we contribute to news stories in hundreds of top media outlets throughout the country. This positive press coverage helps make bicycling mainstream and inspires more people to ride. Learn more.