Bike Carmel announces ‘Love to Ride’ challenge

Bike Carmel, sponsored by IU Health, encourages more people to ride bikes and join Love to Ride’s Bike Month Challenge.

The Love to Ride initiative is focused on getting more people riding bikes and rating how safe and comfortable they felt on their routes. This valuable rider insight can then be used to help transform local infrastructure in a way that makes biking safer and more enjoyable.

Here’s how to take part:

• Download the Love to Ride app at this link.
• Enjoy a bike ride anywhere, any time.
• Use the Rate My Routes feature to provide feedback on streets and paths.
• Earn points with every bike ride that can be used for prize drawing entries.
• Encourage others to get involved to earn more points and prize entries.
• Create a profile for your workplace to take part in a bit of fun competition, too.

What if you’re new to riding?

To join the challenge, it doesn’t matter if you ride every day or if you haven’t been on a bike in years. The folks at Love to Ride are behavior-change experts who have helped people worldwide get into biking. Love to Ride has lots of resources to help people ride with confidence, including a range of tips articles and Quick Courses.

With so many benefits to be enjoyed from riding a bike, the Bike Month Challenge is about embracing each and every one of them.

Download the app and log a ride by Sunday, May 18 to be entered in a drawing to win $1,000.