Welcome to the 7th year of Bike Chico!  

While we love to celebrate cycling all year, we're especially excited to be gearing up for Bike Month in May!  Everyone is encouraged to participate: students, employees, employers, moms, dads, grandparents, and everyone in-between! All pedalers can join the fun. 

 Check out the calendar of events!

 Sport a new 2013 Bike Chico Tshirt! Here's the scoop:

Follow the makeover adventures of KHSL TV reporter Matt Vaughan! 

  Chico Community Acupuncture is offering treatments for only $10 when you ride your bike in May. If your business would like to offer a special to cyclists during Bike Month, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  and we'll help put the word out.

Celebrate Bike Month in Redding!  

Link here for events happening in the North State with the Shasta Cascade Bicycle Coalition & Healthy Shasta.

 What is Bike Month?

Sponsored by the League Of American Bicyclist, Bike Month is an opportunity to celebrate the unique power of the bicycle and the many reasons we ride. Whether you bike to work or school; to save money or time; to preserve your health or the environment; to explore your community or get to your destination, get involved in Bike Month and help get more people in your community out riding too!

 What is Bike Chico?

A celebration of bicycling with activities to gear the community to ride to school, work, shop and play during National Bike Month in May. The Butte Bicycle Coalition coordinates this campaign to welcome new and returning cyclists and offers a platform to strengthen their skills and solidify their commitment to cycling. Any group or individual may solicit the BBC to promote their bike related event under the umbrella of Bike Chico.

Did You Know?

-New bicycle commuters lose an average of 13 pounds during their first year of commuting and save almost a pound of CO2 per mile not driven from entering the atmosphere.  Not to mention that it is a lot of fun to go by bike!

 -Orville and Wilbur Wright, the brothers who built the first flying airplane, operated a small bike repair shop in Dayton, Ohio. They used their workshop to build the 1903 Wright Flyer.

 -About 100 million bicycles are manufactured worldwide each year.

 -Americans use their bicycles for less than one percent of all urban trips. Europeans bike in cities a lot more often—in Italy 5 percent of all trips are on bicycle, 30 percent in the Netherlands, and seven out of eight Dutch people over age 15 have a bike.

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