Tips for Bike Friendly Employers

1. Educate your employees about the benefits of bicycle commuting
* Offer lunch and learn workshops to inform employees about the benefits of bicycle commuting, plans for how to begin a bicycle commute, bicycle maintenance, and bicycle safety.

2. Offer parking for bicyclists
* Install bike racks, lockers, or allow cyclists to bring their bikes inside the building to store near their workplace.

3. Offer Shower Facilities
* Install showers if your business doesn't already have them, or work with local fitness centers to offer shower-only or discounted memberships

4.  Create a Bicycle Commuter Incentive Program
* Offer incentives to employees who pledge to Bike to Work such as reimbursement for bicycle or biking accessory purchases

5.  Create a “Guaranteed Ride Home” program
* Have a guaranteed ride or reimbursement of cab fair if a bicycle commuter has some sort of emergency or can't ride home because of bad weather

6.  Create a Bike-Buddy Program
* Encourage employees to commute with each other by offering ads to find fellow bicyclists that live nearby

7.  Participate in Bike to Work Week
* Encourage your employees to register and have your own events planned to be involved. Offer incentives to employees who participate.

8.  Help new commuters come up with routes
*  Use local maps to help new commuters come up with a good route to work. The route for a bike is usually much different than the route for a car so keep that in mind.

9.  Offer unique incentive programs
* Donate a certain amount to charities for each mile employees ride on their bikes

10.  Promote Bicycle commuting by becoming a bicycle commuter
*  Encourage employees to follow your example when you start your commuting