As a part of its grand opening celebrations, Trek Bicycle Asheville is giving away a total of $10,000 to three local cycling organizations—including ours!

Trek is asking customers to help decide how to distribute this donation by “voting” in store April 9 – 28.

How to Enter

Just stop by Trek Bicycle Asheville, put a coin(s) in the box of your favorite organization (wink wink), and the group with the most money at the end of the promotion will get $5,000, 2nd place will take home $3,000, and 3rd place will receive $2,000.

However you vote, this is a great chance to support the local cycling and outdoor community and help make Asheville an even better place to ride. Thanks in advance for your support!

Good luck and please reach out us any questions.

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After receiving hundreds of comments opposing the original plans to widen Merrimon Ave, NCDOT has delayed the project in order to take additional planning time in collaboration with the City of Asheville.

Kudos to our hard-working AoB members, volunteers, and supporters who took action and made our public officials listen!

According to a recent press release (attached below), NCDOT and the City of Asheville will conduct a “high-level corridor study…to determine how other facilities such as sidewalks, medians, bike lanes should be considered in this highly constrained corridor,” which will focus on “designing a multimodal corridor to serve the neighborhood, business, and commuter traffic” in this study.

All we can say is kudos to our hard-working AoB members, volunteers, and supporters who brought this issue to light on our blog (and shared on social media), attended public meetings to share their concerns face-to-face with City and NCDOT officials, and helped us create talking points and a comment-writing guide to make it easy for anyone to share their thoughts.

In total, NCDOT received 418 comments (over 80% opposing the original plans), and 140 of you copied us on your public comments.

Thank you—you made this happen!

Advocating for positive change is what Asheville on Bikes is all about—and why your involvement is so important.

This is an important victory for Asheville! We now have a better chance for Merrimon Ave to become a safer, more accessible, and more efficient thoroughfare for all road users. And, we cannot be prouder of our Asheville on Bikes members and community.

One more time, thank you!

Here is the full version of the Merrimon Avenue Project Update press release:

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