Our Mission: 100,000 people in Denver from all backgrounds riding bikes every day.

Cars are the #1 source of carbon pollution. The good news is that replacing car trips with bike trips is a fast way to reduce emissions. And yet cities and towns lack the tools to get people on bikes en masse quickly enough to make a difference in the battle against climate change. At VAMOS, we make it our job to accelerate the transition to post-carbon mobility.

Avi is a battle-tested entrepreneur. He has also taught entrepreneurship at the University of Denver and served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Nature Conservancy. Avi has an MBA from the University of Chicago and an Earth Science degree from Wesleyan. Since 2018, he’s ridden more than 15,000 miles on Denver streets and has taken hundreds of people on guided bike tours around the city.

“Bike Streets”

The project started in 2018 as “Bike Streets,” a name that reflects our ambition that someday soon, cities across the world will have networks of streets populated by rivers of happy, healthy bicyclists from all backgrounds. These avenues of flowing bicycle activity will fuel local economic growth (people who ride bikes find it easier to hop off and patronize local businesses), create virtuous circles (whereby bicycling as a normalized behavior begets even more riders), and help create a more symbiotic relationship between humans and the natural world. Let’s create this future together.

Origins

The Bike Streets Mapping Project, our first initiative, produced a crowdsourced map of more than 400 miles of low-stress neighborhood streets and trails in Denver, Colorado.

The map has been used online more than 900,000 times.

We published our first mobile applications before the pandemic as an open-source project.

In the municipal election cycle of 2023, we launched VAMOS, a step-by-step plan for how Denver can have the best bike network for all in less than a year and for a fraction of the cost of traditional infrastructure.

And in 2024, we launched the VAMOS Bike Transportation Club to get more people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds on bikes using the Low-Stress Denver Bike Map.