Love to Ride: Commuter Challenge

[Bicycle Belle Ding Ding!]

My love for my new home state is well-documented. After 18 years of desert living, we moved to Michigan, where none of us Petersons had set foot prior to the job interview. 

I have finally found a biking community, right here in a state that has winter. 

Anyway, I got asked to be on a committee that would help launch a new initiative to get more people on bikes. There is a lot of lovely new infrastructure in downtown, and we are hoping to get people to use it to get to work/events/dining/shopping. We are using the app Love to Ride, which will allow people in the city and surrounding areas to sign up, join the challenge and compete against other people for a 2 week challenge in May. The city is eager to have the data that the heat maps will generate, showing where people are riding and where they are not. Hopefully this influences further infrastructure in the near future.

Today there was a local news article, and one of the men I’m serving with is pictured with his RIVENDELL. Paul’s brother John Sotherland built the Rivendell frames at Waterford back in…whatever day that was. I almost never saw other Rivs in the other places I’ve lived, but Michigan has plenty of them.

Here’s the article: https://www.secondwavemedia.com/southwest-michigan/features/Kalamazoo-Commuter-Challenge-encourage-new-cyclists.051624.aspx

Leah

[Ryan]

That's brilliant Leah! If anyone csn sell people on riding bikes for daily activities, it's you! Good on ya!

[Brian Turner]

Thanks for sharing this, Leah! I was delighted to see that the Rivendell owner in the photos is wearing a t-shirt that I designed for the local brewery I do all the graphic design for (West Sixth Brewing in Lexington KY). The shirt says “Ride bikes, drink beer”, and features a simple illustration of the brewery’s Cetma cargo bakfiets that was custom built into a mobile bike bar with a beer tap on it! Small world!

Brian

Lexington KY 

On May 17, 2024, at 8:01 AM, Ryan <ryte...@mts.net> wrote:

That's brilliant Leah! If anyone csn sell people on riding bikes for daily activities, it's you! Good on ya!

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[Doug H.]

I just downloaded the Love To Bike app. I like the idea of tracking my cycling without having to start and stop the app like Strava. Thanks for sharing this Leah.

Doug

[Leah Peterson]

Ryan, oh thank you ☺️

Brian, NO WAY. I’m going to tell him.

Doug, it’s like social media for bikes. I haven’t gotten the hang of it yet, but I hope you love it.

L

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[Leah Peterson]

Brian, I had to tell Paul about this thread. He emailed me back and asked me to pass this along:

Thanks very much, Leah. :-)  A small world indeed.  If possible, please reply to Brian with the following: 

I love the t-shirt and wear it A LOT.  Pam and I were in Lexington last fall when our "kids" were climbing at "The Red."  We stopped at Sixth Street Brewing for lunch and beers, saw the t-shirt, and knew I needed one.  The Broke Spoke was closed, so we couldn't visit there, but we did take in a very informative distillery tour (right next door) at Bluegrass Distillers.  We have very fond memories of our Kentucky trip, and the t-shirt is a wonderful memory jog.  Thanks, Brian

Cheers - Paul

Paul Sotherland

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