About Us
Anyone should be able to ride a bike to any destination.
Today.
Biking to get around town has been described as a “miracle pill.” Individual health improves, local economies flourish, and air quality improves. Kids have more freedom — and, as a result, so do parents. Replacing car trips with bike trips is an incredibly efficient way to improve quality of life. (In Denver alone, we estimate that there are more than 500,000 bikes in people’s garages, waiting to be ridden.) And yet, fifty years into the modern bike movement, no American city has truly made biking a reality for people of all ages and abilities. Our goal is to change that.
The Bike Streets Core Team
Our team, Avi Stopper, Jason Keglovitz, and Matt Robinson have ridden everywhere in Denver, led dozens of slow-rollin’ group rides, and built software for decades.
Three Pillars
Technology — Dozens of advocacy groups around the country use our technology to create Low-Stress Bike Maps so people in their communities can ride today on chill routes to wherever they want to go.
Ideas — Through our podcast and book, we make the case that cities need to use a Network First approach, rather than building individual disconnected bikeways.
Advocacy — We put all this into practice in Denver, with our VAMOS initiative, a concept for how Denver can build a connected network for all for a fraction of the time and cost of the conventional approach.
“Bike Streets”
The name reflects our ambition that someday soon, cities across the United States will have complete networks of streets populated by swelling numbers of happy, healthy riders of all ages. These avenues of flowing activity will fuel local economic growth (people who ride bikes find it easier to hop off and patronize local businesses), create virtuous circles (whereby biking 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
Bike Streets has worked since 2018 to find ways to get more people to swap car trips for bike trips.
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.
Our team meets with community members to evalute proposed routes.
The map was used more than a million times.
We ran a successful Kickstarter to print and give away 20,000 free copies of the Low-Stress Denver Bike Map.
2018 — We launched the first version of the Low-Stress Denver Bike Map.
2019 — We Kickstarted and gave away 20,000 printed copies of the Low-Stress Denver Bike Map.
2019 — We published our first mobile applications before the pandemic as an open-source project.
2023 — We launched VAMOS in the Denver municipal election, 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. The plan was widely adopted by local politicians.
2023 — We ran our first demonstration projects in Lakewood, CO and Sheridan, CO.
2024 — We launched Bike Streets for iPhone to get more people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds on bikes using the Low-Stress Denver Bike Map.
2025 — We launched Bike Streets for Android and Bike Streets Destinations to elevate local businesses and highlight the many amazing places people can ride in Denver.
2025 — We launch Mapmaker, our platform for groups in cities across America to build and deploy their own Low-Stress Bike Maps.
2026 — We made the apps free to everyone and moved to a member supported model.