Membership

Why Join?

Consider Biking has an incredible list of successes in the last few years. This has been driven by the passion and commitment of a few. However, we can’t expect this to continue without the support of our cycling community as a whole. Our future lay in your hands. Now’s the time to support Consider Biking…so we can continue the "in the trenches" advocacy work that allows you to "just ride." 
 
There are over 130 peer organizations across the country, demonstrating a need for cycling advocacy groups. Many of these organizations have THOUSANDS of members, and benefit by the financial support, and the "body of cyclists" that stand behind them when they advocate for enhancements to cycling accommodation. The support for these cycling advocacy groups, is a primary reason that regions like Chicago, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Portland, Austin, Madison, and even Pittsburgh, are years ahead of Central Ohio in bike-friendliness!  If we aspire to model the successes of (and compete with) these regions, we need your support now.

What’s in it for you?
  • Consider Biking works to give you more places to ride.
  • Consider biking helps you enjoy bicycling more.
  • Consider Biking makes it safer to ride. (education, share the road, etc)
  • Consider Biking advocates for more investment in our trail system.
  • Consider Biking provides encouragement for businesses to accommodate their cycling employees.
  • Consider Biking offers the area’s most comprehensive, compiled, resource of local cycling information.  And….
  • Almost every local bike shop will offer Consider Biking members retail benefits (e.g. discounts)
  • Membership spans the calendar year, and partner benefits are listed here. 
Your investment in Consider Biking will make Central Ohio a better place to bicycle. We’ve delivered success in the past; you can count on our success in the future.

Consider Biking provided leadership in these major successes: 

  • Secured LAB Bicycle Friendly Community Award for Columbus – May 2009
  • Bike Suitability Map – Release May 2009
  • Columbus Revised Traffic Code re: bicycles – Passed Dec.2008
  • Columbus Mandatory Childhood Helmet Law – Passed July 2008
  • Columbus Bicentennial Bikeways Plan – Passed May 2008
  • Pedal Instead Bike Parking Valet – Founded 2006
  • COTA Bus Racks – Installed 2005
  • Ride of Silence – Founded 2004 

Consider Biking, an Ohio 501c(3), was incorporated in 1991 as the Central Ohio Bicycle Advocacy Coalition, and is governed by a 12 member Board of Directors. Consider Biking is also a member of the Community Shares of Mid Ohio Workplace Giving federation and recognized by the Columbus Foundation.
 
You can join in three ways:

  1. Go to our website and join on-line via Paypal
  2. Mail a membership form to P.O. Box 937, Worthington, OH 43085
  3. Join at one of our Bike Shop Retail Partners – read on below…

Please visit these partner bike shops and join Consider Biking!

Bike Source – 3 Stores – Clintonville, Sawmill, & Westerville
Cyclist Connection – Canal Wichester
roll – 3 Stores – Easton, Polaris & Dayton
Trek Stores Columbus – 2 Stores – Sawmill & New Albany
 
Please visit these retailers partners today, and support not only your local businesses…but, your local bike advocacy organization too!