Bike Bucks


The NIH Bicycle Commuter Club's NIH Bike Bucks pilot program wherein registered participants EARN "Bike Bucks" that they can spend with participating vendors. Commuters earn five NIH Bike Bucks for every 100 miles that they ride to work on a bike instead of in a car. So far, in the coldest months of the season (Jan to March) our initial twelve pilot participants logged over 4000 miles and earned hundreds of bike bucks!

This concept was modeled on community incentives programs like the Ithaca Hours program in Ithaca, New York and the Recycle Bank in Philadelphia, PA. We're now up to over 40 registered NIH Bike Bucks participants and 4 participating vendors.....

So far the program is limited to NIH and FDA employees and contractors, and only miles commuted to and from work count towards Bike Bucks. I would be more than willing to help other Institutions establish their own such pilot programs. All it takes is a champion, some vendor support and someone willing to track the registrations, loggers, vendors, miles and bucks!
Announcing the official implementation of a pilot NIHBCC program to reward bicyclists for the miles we travel on our bikes, instead of in motorized vehicles.

We have initiated the NIH Bike Bucks project that rewards bike commuters for providing the pollution-reducing, traffic congestion-reducing, fossil-fuel conserving, health-care cost reducing service we provide. We ultimately hope our NIH effort can serve as a local and national model for other such programs.

You are already aware that other NIH commuters who sacrifice driving to participate in the Federal Transhare program also provide some of the same environmental benefits asserted above, but these lucky commuters get federally funded metro-checks to cover (partially to fully) the costs of commuting by bus, metro and/or train. Bike commuters currently get no such federal fiscal reward.

The basic idea of our Bike Bucks program is that you, NIH Bicycle Commuters, log your bike-commuting miles and for every one hundred (100) bike-miles logged, five (5) Bike Bucks will be rewarded. These Bike Bucks are actual, physical "monies" that have real fiscal value with select participating vendors. Participation in the Bike Bucks program does not affect your rights to claim Federal Transhare benefits.

<a href="http://www.recgov.org/r&amp;w/nihbike/#bucks">http://www.recgov.org/r&amp;w/nihbike/#bucks</a>;

by B' Spokes

Like most people I live a hectic life and who has the time for much exercise? Thanks to xtracycle now I do. By using my bike for daily activities I can get things done and get an hour plus work out in 15 minutes extra of my time, not a bad deal and beats taking the extra time going to the gym. In case you are still having trouble being motivated; the National Center of Disease Control says that inactivity is the #2 killer in the United States just behind smoking. ( http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/bb_nutrition/ ) Get out there and start living life! I can carry home a full shopping cart of groceries, car pool two kids or just get lost in the great outdoors camping for a week. Well I got go, another outing this weekend.
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