Bike bus

A bike bus, also known as a bike train or a cycle train, is a group of people who cycle together on a set route following a set timetable. Cyclists may join or leave the bike bus at various points along the route. Most bike buses are a form of collective bicycle commuting.

A bike bus is often seen as a cyclist's version of a walking bus, although walking buses tend to be seen as exclusively for children travelling to school.

Bike buses may have social, environmental, or political aims. One of the founders of the Aire Valley Bike Bus said "The Aire Valley Bike Bus was set up ... to encourage people to take up cycling and make the journey to work a more interesting and sociable experience.". The stated aim of the Central Florida Bike Bus is "bringing together cyclists who want to commute by bike using the same roads as every other vehicle"

The Aire Valley Bike Bus first started in August 2008. It runs once a week, on a Wednesday, between Keighley and Bradford in West Yorkshire, UK. In November 2009 it was featured as Cycling England's Scheme of the Month.

Bike Bus is run by members of Bicycle New South Wales, Australia on a voluntary basis and has received funding from The Department of Environment and Water Resources, through the Low Emissions Technology and – Strategic Abatement program. It is a "community-led service to introduce groups of people to ride a set route together, to introduce beginners to a route, or enjoy each others company".

Bike Bus is a company renting all manner of bikes to visitors in the Dordogne region of France and organises, throughout the summer, many Bike Bus style group rides around the Dordogne Valley, accumulating cyclists on its way past camp sites, gites, and hotels and redepositing them at their start point at the end of their ride. Bike Bus (FR) was created in 2002.

Biketrain PDX was started by Kiel Johnson in 2010. It co-ordinates bike trains, a form of bike bus, for school children in Portland, Oregon, with the aim of having a bike train running at every single school.

Perhaps the first bike bus initiative, based in Toulouse, France it now shows bike buses across France.

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