{"id":531,"date":"2011-09-28T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/2011\/09\/28\/getting-more-people-on-bikes\/"},"modified":"2013-09-30T13:02:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T20:02:59","slug":"getting-more-people-on-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/28\/getting-more-people-on-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting more people on bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everybodybike.com\/images\/splash\/img3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everybodybike.com\/images\/splash\/img3.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 246px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 166px;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everybodybike.com\/images\/splash\/img1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everybodybike.com\/images\/splash\/img1.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 244px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 158px;\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">How does a bicycle group successfully get more people on bikes? There are many ways to go about it, one way is through an ad campaign. Market bicycling &#8211; show people <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;\">on<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> bikes or like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everybodybike.com\/default.aspx\"><b>everybodyBIKE<\/b><\/a> did, show pictures of people who do a lot of things, including ride bikes.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I think that a lot of non-cyclists view bicycling as a sport, as something that middle aged men in Lycra do on the weekends, or as something that people are forced to do because they&#8217;ve either lost their drivers license or can&#8217;t afford to drive. While the above assumptions may be true for some people, it certainly doesn&#8217;t describe me or many of my friends and co-workers.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">There are many reasons people choose to bike, some do it for the exercise, some for the environment, because it&#8217;s fun, to save money and some because they don&#8217;t have another vehicle. I think that if we want to be successful in getting more people of all ages, males and females on bikes, then we need to show images of all types of people who are bicyclists.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everybodybike.com\/images\/splash\/img2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everybodybike.com\/images\/splash\/img2.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; height: 277px; width: 180px;\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everybodybike.com\/images\/splash\/img5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everybodybike.com\/images\/splash\/img5.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; height: 272px; width: 176px;\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everybodybike.com\/images\/splash\/img4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everybodybike.com\/images\/splash\/img4.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; height: 270px; width: 174px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does a bicycle group successfully get more people on bikes? 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