OCCK Transportation
Happy National Ride a Bike Day!
But the biking celebration doesn't stop there! The month of May is National Bike Month.
KANcycle, a regional bike sharing program sponsored by OCCK and Blue Cross Blue Shield, is announcing activities and events taking place over the next few weeks.
KANcycle is offering the promo code “bike4life” for 31 free rides on KANcycle during the month of May. This promo code is good for all locations in the KANcycle service area.
“No better way of celebrating National Ride a Bike Day and Bike Month than by offering free rides,” said Michelle Griffin, director of mobility management for the region. “Rides can be taken for any purpose, including shopping, errands, and even fun.”
Additionally, KANcycle is partnering with Ad Astra Books & Coffee House, 141 N. Santa Fe Avenue, to offer a 10-percent discount to any patron riding a bicycle to its location. This discount starts Sunday. Bike racks are conveniently located outside the coffee house.
“KANcycle has been a great program for Salina and north-central Kansas,” Griffin said. “We are so excited to create this first partnership with Ad Astra Books & Coffee House. We want to encourage mobility in all forms, and biking is a great way to do that. We have a great line-up of Bike Month activities all month long.”
KANcycle regional bike sharing provides north-central Kansas, including Salina, Minneapolis, Concordia, Belleville, Mankato, Beloit, Lincoln, and Ellsworth, with convenient, affordable access to bicycles as an easy, fun, healthy and eco-friendly means of transportation and recreation.
Riders join the program by signing up for annual memberships or pay-as-you-go. Annual memberships will be $30 with trips under one hour being free, student annual memberships will be $20 with trips under one hour being free, and pay-as-you-go will be $1.50 every 30 minutes.
Bikes are easy to check out. Riders need to download the Movatic app, find a rack with an available bike, enter the promo code on the payment screen, and start riding. To end the ride, the process is reversed.
Movatic manages all aspects of its bike-share programs — from bikes and technology, to maintenance and fleet rebalancing. Riding KANcycle bike share is easy. Bikes can be found via the free Movatic Mobile App — available for iPhone and Android. Each bike has a unique number which riders enter into the app to unlock the bike. After the rider returns the bike to a designated Movatic bike station, the rental ends and the bike is available for the next person to enjoy.