Riding bikes with kids in cities is incredibly rewarding and connecting for families. It can feel daunting, but doesn’t have to be. Urban riding isn’t something that happens in one brave afternoon. It’s a progression of small, confidence-building steps: mastering bike handling skills, practicing in low-stress spaces, choosing calm routes, and slowly layering in traffic awareness. When families approach it incrementally — and keep it fun — biking shifts from a weekend activity to a reliable, empowering way to get around together.

Biking with vehicles or traffic is daunting but if you follow these tips, you’ll get a big boost in confidence that will have you passing over your car keys to reach for your bike more and more.

Biking while pregnant as a surrogate made me feel like a superhero.

Biking in the winter should be no different than walking in the winter and it's still the most convenient way to get around. Here's a photo essay showing how easy and fun riding in the snow can be.

Happy Valentine's Day! Here is a photo album of 10 romantic biking destinations known for their scenery, abundance of water vistas and most importantly, off road paths that let you hold hands with your honey.

Vegas for Casual Biking

We took our friends who had never been to Minneapolis and gave them the biking experience. Follow in our footsteps with a free bike map and itinerary.

Photo highlights of Bikabout founders' Cape Cod weekend getaway for National Bike Travel Weekend. 

Picture a person riding a bike in America and what comes to mind? Spandex, sweat, middle-aged men, contorted faces, epic hills, long distances, chain grease and carbon fiber are usually part of the stereotype. Sounds awesome! Just kidding....

Washington kicked off spring this week and Bikabout is excited to help them inspire Cherry Blossom gazing by bike. And because the city does a remarkable job catering to bike tourists, we get to cut our largest check to local advocacy organization, WABA!

And because I used a bike to explore the city, I covered a lot of ground and saw things I would have never stumbled upon if I was on foot or driving. Here is what I love about San Diego...

A photo album of the 12 cities and trails in North America we hope to experience this year

Call it a bucket list or travel dream, these are the cities and trails that have made our 2016 list.

Before I get started, do you know what I'm talking about? When you look at rooms to rent on AirBnB, you've got a pretty exhaustive set of amenities you can filter by. You can choose to see only 1-bedroom places, with a pool, who provide shampoo...but the possibility of the host offering a bike (or bikes) for guests is strangely not one of them.

Milwaukee has a strong bike culture and decent-to-amazing infrastructure. And it has those unfailingly nice mid-western people. And it has GOOD beer. Unfortunately, Milwaukee also has a governor who has cut spending on every kind of transportation except highways...

Bikabout donates 25% of its revenue each year to support local non-profits that advocate for better biking. And while that may sound altruistic, we want to be explicit about the fact that our motives are entirely selfish. We're trying to remake North America the way we'd rather it be. Let us explain.

With National Bike Month (May) right around the corner, now is the perfect time for curious lodging to make the leap into the bike tourism community.  Its all about the experience these days and nothing simultaneously gives the gift of elation, independence, efficient sightseeing and adventure like the bike does. Here are 5 tips on how you can provide guests with a biking experience of a lifetime.

Voted “Best Used Book Store” 5 years in a row, Blue Bicycle Books was taken over by a former employee and his wife in 2007, and continues to delight readers on King Street 8 years later. The store opened in 1995 as Boomer’s Books, and has always offered knowledgable staff, a comfortable atmosphere, and a friendly shop cat to pet. Online book sellers don’t have shop cats.

Bikabout.com has curated this list of museums because they roll out the red carpet for people biking, they are located along a scenic and comfortable route or they're just cultural landmarks not to be missed via two wheels or otherwise. Locations include Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, New York, San Francisco and Vancouver.

Arriving in Vancouver and hopping onto a bike when you're used to places like Boston, your first thought is "this is what DONE looks like." Done arguing, done advocating, done waiting, done building... Vancouver looks and feels like a photoshopped "After" picture if you're a bike advocate. The water on all sides, the mountains tumbling over each other on every horizon, and those incredible bike paths everywhere... swoon.

Out of every city we have biked, Minneapolis is by far the best biking city in the U.S.  Between the "bicycle interstate highways" that get you where you need to go, water at every turn, the most bike racks per capita and normal folk riding bikes, this city provides a social, stress free and scenic city biking experience.