Riding in Solidarity with Bike Shops Across the Globe

Photos by Luke Tokunaga and Justin Rogow

Last Saturday, January 31st, roughly 1,000 members of Boise's cycling community joined together in unity and solidarity with the Angry Catfish bike shop in Minneapolis to ride together across Boise in order to memorialize Alex Pretti, while also calling for an end to the senseless violence and division that has taken a hold of our nation. 

The scope of Saturday’s event itself is an incredible thing - where tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousand of cyclists rode together across the globe - from Minneapolis to Mexico City, from Boise to Brisbane - to demonstrate the strength of a connected community, reaffirm our commitment to safe and inclusive cities, and share resources on how we can continue to show up for one another.

We were proud to host the Idaho Organization of Resource Councils , who shared about the direct support work they continue to do in our community and how people can further get involved.

Here at BBP, we continue to be inspired by the huge number of good faith actors across our community, our nation, our world who step up for one another again and again, and look for ways to continue to help and courageously show that love is best understood as a verb, an action that we undertake in service of one another.

-Devin McComas, Executive Director