This award is a significant national honor and we are grateful for the recognition of the hard work of our many volunteers, donors, members, board, after school program teachers and students, and ride participants!

This award includes the Jon Graff Prize for Advancing Safe Cycling, a donation of $1,000 to our organization.

Want to learn more about AoB?

• List of what we do
• Our Mission Statement explained
• Video about our after school bike program

Asheville on Bikes was selected from more than 12 other nominated organizations. This award has been given out each year since 2009, first as part of the Alliance for Biking and Walking and now as part of the League of American Bicyclists. We are happy count ourselves as League members and encourage you to check out their work.

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The Flying Bike Gold 2020
Motion Makers Bicycle Shop Silver 2020
Youngblood Bicycles Silver 2020
Asheville Yoga Center Bronze 2020
McHone Performance Training Bronze 2020

Two previous award winners moved up a level, which is also no small accomplishment. Liberty Bicycles moved from gold to platinum and Industry Nine moved from silver to gold. Well done.

And here are the existing Bike-Friendly Businesses listed based on the year they won the award:

Industry Nine Gold in 2020, Silver in 2016
Rainbow Community School Bronze 2018
CAKE Websites and More Bronze 2017
New Belgium Brewing Asheville Platinum 2018
Liberty Bicycles Platinum 2009

The League of American Bicyclists manages these awards and they administer an application process prior to announcing the awards each year. It is a significant honor to be both vetted and celebrated by winning! The award levels are bronze, silver, gold, and platinum.

Asheville has more Bicycle-Friendly Businesses – 10 – than any other North Carolina City and we are among the cities in the U.S. with the highest density of award recipients. We have North Carolina’s only platinum level award recipients. Kudos! Thank you to each of these businesses. Your leadership and vision are extraordinary and we appreciate what you are accomplishing in our community.

These awards also fit in with Asheville’s move to have safer streets, diversify mode share, and support cycling. Asheville is itself a bronze-level bicycle-friendly city, as graded by the League. The League of American Bicyclists publishes an infographic that shows how different groups in a community work together to create a better place to live; they call it a Bicycle-Friendly Community:

Thank you again, Bike-Friendly Businesses of Asheville!

Here is the full list of 10, newest recipients at the top:

1. The Flying Bike Gold 2020
2. Motion Makers Bicycle Shop Silver 2020
3. Youngblood Bicycles Silver 2020
4. Asheville Yoga Center Bronze 2020
5. McHone Performance Training Bronze 2020
6. Liberty Bicycles Platinum 2009
7. New Belgium Brewing Asheville Platinum 2018
8. Industry Nine Gold in 2020, Silver in 2016
9. Rainbow Community School Bronze 2018
10. CAKE Websites and More Bronze 2017

Would you like to join this list? Each year Asheville on Bikes hosts a Bicycle-Friendly Business workshop where you can learn all about the process of applying and be partnered with existing award recipients who will help you in the process.

Search the League’s database of Bicycle-Friendly businesses and cities.

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From LAB:

For us, there’s nothing more beautiful than the sight of smiling bicyclists commuting on two wheels or pedaling for recreation. And thanks to the tremendous growth of the Bicycle Friendly America program, we’re seeing more communities, businesses and universities adopting that vision.

Submit your photos here!

Help the League continue this progress by showing us the best of bicycling in your city, school or workplace. We want to showcase and celebrate the many different ways our nation is becoming more bicycle friendly, with a focus on how biking makes life better. We’re not looking for your best images of innovative facilities, but the vibrant faces of the people who enjoy them. We want to see the joy, energy and impact of a Bicycle Friendly America — in action!

Participation is free, easy and open to the public — and the Grand Prize winner will receive a free registration to the 2015 National Bike Summit. Twenty-five of the best images will be chosen by League staff, and then a judging panel consisting of members of League Advisory Boards and Board of Directors will choose the Grand Prize winner, in addition to the Top 10 for a People’s Choice Award. Voting for the People’s Choice Award will take place on Facebook and other social media.

The submission deadline is May 19. Winners will be announced in early June! 

More contest info here.

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