2025 Roll it Forward! Recipients

For its 2025 Roll it Forward! awards, New York Cycle Club recognizes fifteen organizations and programs whose work advances the Club’s mission to grow and diversify the cycling community.  These awards come with $500+ stipends, funded with proceeds from our Escape New York charity ride.  

The 2025 RiF! recipients are:

Bike Path (a program of Bike New York) is a four-week training program the trains previously justice-involved individuals to become certified bike mechanics for CitiBike’s fleet of 33,000 electric and traditional bicycles.  

Black Girls Do Bike celebrates and encourages cycling for BIPOC women with a full program of rides and events, including support for a kids race and skills clinic as part of the Harlem Skyscraper Classic and the annual Very Pink Breast Cancer Ride.

Central Park Medical Unit has provided free life-saving emergency medical care to cyclists, runners and pedestrians in and around New York's Central Park since 1975. 

Fearless Flyers (a program of OutCycling) was created to expand access to cycling to LGBTQIA+ youth. The program is dedicated to overcoming isolation and fostering inclusivity while promoting physical and mental well-being while creating a safe and welcoming space for participants to thrive.

Get Women Cycling's mission is to elevate and sustain female bicycle ridership by giving workshops on how to ride and maintain a bicycle and to incorporate cycling into their lifestyles.  GWC also provides workshops to motorists and non-motorists on how to safely navigate New York City streets.

I Challenge Myself will support students at the Edward Reynolds Transfer High School (EARTHS) in East Harlem who had previously been unable to get a degree—mostly due to having to start a family or incarceration.  ICM will teach cycling twice per week, with the end-of-year goal of completing rides of 20-50 miles. 

InTandem Cycling provides free year-round tandem cycling programs to people who are blind, have low vision, or cannot ride independently due to other disabilities. Our Youth Initiative will bring together teens with/without vision impairments to focus on inclusion, teamwork, communication and leadership.

New York Bicycling Coalition is the only statewide organization focused primarily on cycling.  We co-chair the New York State Safe Streets Coalition—150 organizations working together on bike-friendly legislation—including Stop as Yield and Defined Safe Passing.

Palisades MTB builds and maintains trails, and advocates for mountain bike access on public and private land in Bergen, Rockland and Orange Counties. We foster a culture of responsible mountain biking through collaboration, community building and zealous land stewardship.  Through partnering with New York State Office of Parks, PMTB's long-term plan is to complete 44 miles of multi-use trails in Sterling Forest State Park, to make it one of the premier US trail destinations.

Palisades Park Conservancy is a nonprofit supporting the Palisades Interstate Parks—a network of twenty parks and nine historic sites including Bear Mountain and Harriman State Parks and Henry Hudson Drive (River Road).

Ridgewood Rides (NYC H20) is a community-based organization that hosts rides and advocates for improved cycling and pedestrian infrastructure. We recently secured from NYCDOT a two-way protected bike lane connecting residents to Highland Park and Ridgewood Reservoir.

StreetsBlog (a division of OpenPlans) is THE information pipeline to cyclists about governmental, political and police activity that affect cyclists. You cannot be an informed—and therefore engaged—New York cyclist without its information.

StreetsPAC, founded by a team of the city’s most committed advocates, backs candidates who support redesigning city streets to prioritize safety, increased and improved transit access for all New Yorkers, parking and toll reform, more thorough crash investigations, and bike-friendly legislation.

StuyBike (Stuyvesant High School Bike Library) was formed to combat theft, the lack of storage locations, and the high price of CitiBike.  Student volunteers receive donations of surplus bikes, help fix them up, store them at locations granted by the local community, and operate the return-borrow process.

WE Bike NYC is open to all women, female-identifying, and gender-nonconforming people who enjoy biking (or think they might).  In collaboration with Mujeres en Movimiento, we have been offering Spanish-language bike mechanics workshops in Corona, Queens.

2023 RiF! Recipients

34th Ave Open Streets Coalition’s mission is utilize the 34th Avenue Open Street as an outdoor community center and micro-mobility corridor.  The RIF! award will be used to fund its Friday Family Bike Rides so the youngest riders learn quickly and start pushing their parents to ride farther! 

Adapt Ability provides custom adaptive bicycles for children with special needs.  The RIF! award will fund AdaptAbility 4Ride that allows families free use of adaptive bicycles for the purpose of increasing mobility, therapy, exercise—or just for a fun day in the park!

Bike Tarrytown campaigns include Broadway+Route 119 to implement bike-ped infrastructure connecting the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge to the Old Croton Aqueduct and North-South County Trailway.

Black Girls Do Bike, NYC seeks to grow and support a community of women of color who share a passion for cycling.  Its projects include the Very Pink October Breast Cancer awareness ride and helping to coordinate the NYC Harlem Skyscraper children’s race and ride clinic on Juneteenth (June 19).

Central Park Medical Unit has provided free life-saving emergency medical care in and around NYC's Central Park since 1975.

New York Bicycle Coalition educates about bike safety; promotes cycle tourism; and advocates for pro-bike/ped funding and legislation. NYBC is a principal in the campaign to pass Stop as Yield and Defined Safe Passing laws across New York.

OutCycling is an LGBTQ+ cycling network for everyone.  The RIF! award will help fund its Fearless Flyers Youth Cycling Program which teaches youth ages 16-25 cycling and leadership skills and provides graduates a free bike and safety equipment. 

Palisades MTB advocates for bike trails on public and private land in Bergen, Rockland and Orange. Active campaigns include Sterling Forest, Blauvelt State Park and Alpine Scout Camp.

Ride Up Grades creates diversity in cycling by breaking down the financial barriers to coaching and access to equipment. The RIF! award will be used to support mechanics and coaching staff during their Free 2 Week Bike Camp.  

StreetsBlog (OpenPlans.org) is THE information pipeline about governmental, political and police activity that affect cyclists! 

2022 RiF! Recipients

34th Avenue Open Street Coalition

Adapt Ability, Inc.

Bike Tarrytown

Black Girls Do Bike, NYC

Central Park Medical Unit

InTandem

Long Island Streets

OutCycling / Fearless Flyers

Ride Up Grades, Inc.

Streetsblog / Open Plans