Bicycle Advocacy Organizations: Consorting with the Locals
A well-deserved tribute to local bicycle advocates.
Published on UtilityCycling.org on 5.25.10
On Friday morning, before the sun had made its daily appearance, I was on my way to set up shop at Northern Virginia’s largest Bike to Work Day pit stop in Rosslyn, Virginia. Through my position with a local bicycle retailer, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to represent our company as we offered bike safety checks, tire inflation and cycling advice to the masses of commuters enjoying DC’s annual Bike to Work Day. The day’s events are organized by the Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA) and BikeArlington, and the overwhelming success of the Rosslyn pit stop (as well as the other thirty-four stops in the DC Metro area) was a tribute to the incredible and important work that local bicycle advocacy organizations do every day to ensure that more people can experience the utility of cycling.
Nearly eight hundred cyclists rolled through our stop just across the Potomac River from the national’s capital, and because of the support and incentive provided by the local advocacy organizations, more than a few of these commuters were enjoying their first of many trips to work on a bicycle.
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