BIKING FOR FUN, INC.

The goals for our organization are as follows:
- Establish a strong and consistent Adult Education Program centered around two classes, Confident City Cycling (a traffic skills and safety class), and Basic Bicycle Maintenance.
- Strengthen the presence and utilization of our two bike kitchens.
- Diversify our funding sources, through sponsorships, increased membership, and increased contracts.
- Grow our membership base to become a large financial contributor to the organization as well as a large platform for bicycle advocacy in the community.
- Assist the City and County in installing more bicycle infrastructure to encourage bicycling throughout the Bakersfield Metropolitan Area
- Achieve a bicycle modeshare of 5% for all trips in the area by 2025
- Provide low cost or free bikes, parts, and repair services to the community

Bike Bakersfield has been a non-profit since 2006. We strive to promote bicycling as a safe, fun and environmentally friendly means of everyday transportation, and have used a variety of avenues to do so and will continue these same efforts in the near future:
- Hold community bike rides that draw as many as 200 participants.
- Continue excellence with our Bike Kitchens which haves refurbished hundreds of bicycles throughout the years, and put them back on the streets for people who need the transportation.
- Provide education through classes, workshops, and literature to both children and adults.
- Advocate for increased bicycle infrastructure at the city, county and state level.
- Assist the City and County in attaining funding for more bicycle infrastructure.

Bike Bakersfield's internal and external strengths play pivotal roles in the success of this organization. Our organization has experienced success through the incorporation of a number of factors:
- A diverse staff with different skills, educational attainments, and passions all focused on improving biking in Bakersfield.
- Well established relationships with local government agencies giving us a platform to impact our road infrastructure.
- Connections with local private companies who support us financially as well as give us a platform to reach out to their employee base and the community at large.
- A balance of funding sources including grants, private donations, and membership dues solidifying our organizations financial stability.

Our progress towards our organizations goals is measured through examining the quality of our programs while monitoring quantitatively where we are in relation to our targets. Our near term goals are as follows:
- Annually add approximately 40 miles of bicycle infrastructure to the Bakersfield Metropolitan network.
- Increase our membership base and email list through outreach efforts such as events, community rides, and educational courses.
- Continue the excellence of our bicycle kitchens by distributing, repairing, and assisting in the repairs of bicycles for the community to help people get there bikes operational.

These past few year Bike Bakersfield made progress towards these goals by doing the following:
- Adding 50 miles of class II and III bicycle facilities to the Bakersfield Metropolitan Area
- Maintaining attendance on our monthly Full Moon Ride
- Getting our staff certified as League Cycling Instructors through the League of American Bicyclists and begin basic bike maintenance courses.
- Attending health fairs, farmers markets, and other community events and in doing so growing our membership base and connections with the community
- Hosting bicycle rodeos and kidical mass rides to teach our youth safe riding skills.

The impact of our work over the past few years has helped our organization grow tremendously. Through the course of our work we learned the importance of engaging the public and the opportunities which come from connecting with the community at large. Additionally we were encouraged to learn there are a number of funding mechanisms available to install bicycle infrastructure and are excited for the opportunity our organization has to assist both the City and County governments in growing their bicycle network. We also learned there are some adjustments which need to be made. While public outreach is beneficial we learned it is important to limit the number of free services we can offer in order to stay cost effective. At the same time we are aware that what is most important is being able to reach the community in order to improve bicycling, however too much focus on opportunities with minimal reward can become an obstacle for getting more productive work accomplished.

Other than fine tuning our outreach efforts we believe our time is being well spent and our short term goals as well as recent accomplishments are leading us towards our long term goals. By encouraging more people to ride, educating them on how to ride safely, and by building quality bicycle infrastructure we believe we can achieve a 5% mode share by 2025 and sustain our organization as an active member of this growing community.