Ride With Friends

We just launched our new Friends feature for the free and paid versions of the Bike Streets app. The goal is simple: to help you and your friends and family ride bikes once a week.

You can ride solo or together. Any distance counts. On Monday morning, your progress bar starts at 0%. The goal is to get it to 100% by Sunday evening.

To ride with Friends, go to Community, tap “Add,” and text your link to your closest friends and family.

A life where bike transportation is part of your weekly routine is a good life. And with our Destinations project, there are tons of awesome, bike-friendly places that want you to ride to them.

Encourage friends to start with simple trips: a 1-mile ride to a coffee shop, gym, or ice cream shop. (High Point Creamery, Rocket, and Nuggs are all bike-friendly Passport Destinations.)

Friends on Bike Streets is tied tightly to our mission to get 100,000 people riding bikes every day in Denver. Starting with the goal of one ride a week is a gentle on-ramp to get more people to become regular riders.

Here are some examples of folks we envision riding with friends:

1. The Organizer: someone who is already a committed rider and who rides many times a week. The Wander feature on Bike Streets might be the way you ride, since you already have your favorite routes. Friends is designed to help you be a community organizer and get the people in your life who say they want to ride more frequently to realize that dream.

2. The Aspirant: someone who has always wanted to ride more and might benefit from having friends and family help them remember to do it and feel accountable from week-to-week.

What does Friends on Bike Streets not have? We don’t have a messaging feature. (There are plenty of apps you’re already using for that.) We don’t have algorithmic feeds to suck you in and waste time on your phone. (There are too many apps that do that.) And there are no ads. Our focus is to help you and your friends ride at least once a week to great places in Denver.