MoBikeFed Board Member Eric Rogers played a key role in developing the web site for and promoting Kansas City's Bike Week 2008. The Liberty Tribune covered Bike Week 2008, which included over 60 events across the metro area and doubled participation in this year's Car Free Challenge:
Hundreds of residents from across the Kansas City area left their automobiles in the driveway last week, opting instead to put on their walking shoes, grease up their bike chains and locate the nearest bus stop as part of the Missouri Bicycle Federation’s annual Car-Free Challenge.
Eric Rogers of the Missouri Bicycle Federation said the event set an all-time high for the number of registered participants, more than doubling last year’s turnout from 400 to about 900. The challenge was to log as many miles as possible during the week-long competition, from work commutes to routine errands, using non-vehicular modes of transportation. Rogers said the simple fact that more people signed up for the competition this year was a sign that other transportation options were being more widely considered.
“In general, there is a much higher interest in alternative forms of transportation,” Rogers said. “As you get closer to $4 a gallon for gas, I think people are at a point where they’re more willing to start considering other options.”
Rogers said the Missouri Bicycle Federation partnered with the city of Kansas City and the Mid-America Regional Council to host the event, which awarded an array of prizes to the winning participants. For many who got involved with the challenge, however, the true reward was being part of the greater effort to alleviate gas expenditures and benefit the environment.
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MoBikeFed Board Member Eric Rogers played a key role in developing the web site for and promoting Kansas City's Bike Week 2008. The Liberty Tribune covered Bike Week 2008, which included over 60 events across the metro area and doubled participation in this year's Car Free Challenge:
Right now people in the industrialized world are facing two very grave problems: obesity and a growing scarcity of oil. Compounding this problem is the new food shortage brought about, in part, by the conversion of food cropland to bio-fuel crop production. Most people feel powerless to help, but there is one thing that we can do. Ride our bicycles to work.
If everyone would agree to ride their bikes to work one day per week we could cut oil consumption by as much as 10-15%. No one would argue that riding a bike burns more calories than driving the car. Although popular politically right now, most bio-fuels consume more energy than they produce. We would be much better to eat those bio-crops then use our own energy to transport us around.
So spread the word. Make it a movement! Bicycle to work one day a week and do your part to cut back obesity and the overuse of oil and precious cropland.
Just go to my profile at and you can click on the group to be included. While you are there, don't forget to ask to link to my network of more than 9,000,000 like-minded professionals. I accept all invitations and look forward to meeting you.
Jeff