Bicycle Voting
Now that biking is really picking up in my town, I’m noticing something interesting. I don’t need to check Yelp much anymore.
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Reminds me of how I once wrote to Yelp:
“You have check boxes for [Parking] and [Coat check], please consider adding a check for [Bike friendly], thank you”. Sadly, I never got a reply.
There are several shops in Cincinnati that now cater DIRECTLY to cyclists. The costs of installing bike racks and making their shops and cafes bike friendly can be easily made up by attracting a whole group of new consumers. And since ‘bike friendliness’ takes nothing away from the non-bike consumer, it’s definitely a worth-while investment. Cincinnati advocacy groups have been doing a very good job of educating business owners.
The businesses in question may also be of good quality which helps attract business. Not to generalize, but cyclists do tend to be a certain type of person -not meaning the same or all liking or thinking the same thing, but maybe educated about food, culture, cool stuff, by the very nature of choosing to get around by bike in a car centric society. Ethics and environmental concerns can come into play, or health and fitness. All work together. Plus, you can get mighty hungry cycling around so appreciate good eats and coffee! In the pacific northwest, my vote goes to an area with COVERED bike parking! Someone who thinks of that when they put in a bike rack is thinking about cyclists.
Where I live there is a grocery store that offers 10% off if you come by bike. Unfortunately they dont have a bike rack nearby, but there are almost always a couple of bikes leaning against the wall outside the store.