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Ride Your Bike to Work Tomorrow!

It’s almost here: Friday, May 15 is National Bike-to-Work Day. Jump on your bike, and join your fellow two-wheeled commuters in the Centre Region!

From 8am – 8:45am on May 15, stop by The Bicycle Shop in State College for free coffee and espresso, as part of our Commuter Coffee Fridays.

Every Friday in May, cycling commuters can stop in at a different location around town to pick up a free coffee, get cycling questions answered, and celebrate the joy of two-wheeled cycling to work. Make sure to explore all our May Bike Month activities.

Still have questions about riding to work? Check out this list of handy bicycle commuting tips from the League of American Bicyclists.

What else is happening in May?

Have you signed up for the National Bike Challenge (www.nationalbikechallenge.org)? CentreBike is currently #16 out of 109 local challenges, with 147 riders riding 7,637 miles since May 1. We’re up against challenges with hundreds to thousands of riders. Imagine if we can get to 200 riders?

We know you’re here and you’re riding. Logging your miles is easy, and you can do it well after the fact. If you’re already registered in the challenge and you haven’t logged your miles, please do so and help boost us up in the standings!

May 14, 2015
Join Us for May Bike Month 2015
CentreBike is gearing up for May! May is both National Bike to Work Month, as well as National Bike Safety Month, and we have a handful of events to celebrate the start of another warm-weather cycling season.

“Commuter Coffee Fridays” will offer free coffee to commuting cyclists every Friday morning in May at a different location around Downtown State College. You’ll also have the opportunity to take a family-friendly bike ride with the Mayor, or attend a PennDOT press event about bicycle safety in the region.

We’d love to see you at any of our May events!
- Friday, 5/1, Commuter Coffee Fridays
- Friday, 5/1, “Ask a Cyclist” Table all day at Allen Street Gates
- Friday, 5/1 through Wednesday 9/30, The National Bike Challenge
- Sunday, 5/3 The Linden Loop at the Rock Hill School
  (not a CentreBike event, but helps support a bike rest stop at the school)
- Tues-Weds, 5/5-5/6 Make a donation to CentreBike during the CentreGives Campaign
- Friday, 5/8, Commuter Coffee Fridays + Group Photo at Old Main Steps
- Friday 5/8, PennDOT Bicycle Press Conference at Old Main Steps
- Friday 5/15, Commuter Coffee Fridays
- Saturday 5/16, Spring Bike Ride with the Mayor
- Friday 5/22, Commuter Coffee Fridays
- Friday 5/29, Commuter Coffee Fridays
April 17, 2015
Cyclists, We Need Your Voice! (April 2015)

The Centre Region Council of Governments (CRCOG) is in the early stages of an exciting project: the development of recommendations for a Regional Bicycle Plan. This plan will guide planning efforts around cycling in the region for the foreseeable future. In addition to public review meetings, CRCOG is looking for input from cyclists and non-cyclists alike about the needs in our community, including bicycle infrastructure, programming, and safety.

It’s important that all cyclists provide input, so that we can demonstrate to our elected officials that this work is important to us. We encourage you to attend tomorrow night’s Public Review of the Bicycle Plan meeting, and stay on the look out for future meetings around this issue. In the meantime, CRCOG is also looking for survey data – a simple 10 minutes of your time.

Ready to provide your input on cycling in the region? Please fill out the CRCOG bicycling survey!

April 14, 2015