Our Approach
Building the community
Building The Community
Leveraging Community Engagement to Develop Sustainable Cycle Culture
Promoting a cycling culture requires a comprehensive approach that involves various principles. Cycle Connect Bhaktapur has been following key strategies to promote a sustainable cycling culture through community engagement. These approaches aim to empower the community and create a sense of ownership towards cycling promotion for long-lasting impact.
Activity-Based Involvement: Organizing Regular Events and encouraging people to actively participate in cycling-related activities, such as group rides, charity events, trainings or bike repair workshops. This helps create a sense of community around cycling and can inspire more people to take up cycling.
Metrics-based Promotion: Using data and metrics to measure the impact of cycling promotion efforts, such as the number of people cycling, the reduction in traffic congestion, and the improvement in air quality. This helps identify areas for improvement and track progress toward cycling promotion goals.
Inclusion-Based Sustainability: Ensuring that cycling promotion efforts are inclusive and sustainable, taking into account the needs and concerns of diverse communities from all gender, social classes, and age groups. This helps ensure that cycling benefits are accessible to everyone and that cycling promotion efforts are long-lasting.
Community-Based Leadership: Empowering community members to take leadership roles in promoting cycling, such as organizing events, advocating for cycling infrastructure, and educating others about cycling benefits in their peer group and affiliated organizations. This helps create a sense of ownership and responsibility for the promotion of cycling within the community.
Objective-based Collaboration: Collaborating with various stakeholders, including government officials, cycling clubs, advocacy groups, and businesses, to achieve specific objectives related to cycling promotion, such as public awareness campaigns, organizing fun events and mission driven events, creating more bike lanes or increasing the number of cyclists on the road
Driving The change
Converting Ideas into Impact
Our programs centered around cycling is designed to expand reach and involve the community.
Converting an idea into impactful actions is a marathon, not a sprint. Planning, visualization, implementation and evaluation are crucial. Our programs centered around cycling is designed to expand reach and involve the community. We march ahead with the mindset that shortcomings and mistakes are not failures, but opportunities to improve. We understand that good communication, collaboration, and honest efforts are vital. Motivation and team coordination are challenging but essential. Careful attention is given towards event management, financial planning, and documentation. With a pragmatic mindset, we strive to create better solutions that support our aims and benefit all stakeholders. We create programs that attract cyclists and engage them in personal level.
CyCon Weekly is our standarized regular cycling tour event, organized on Saturday morning. This event has been a great foundation to grow our community. The main aim of this program to realize the benefits of regular cycling and to explore the hidden and famous destinations around Bhaktapur.
“fRIDEy the first” is special event organized by Cycle Connect Bhaktapur on the first friday of every Nepali Month. This event is designed to promote the cycling culture by using cycle for short distance commute whenever possible. This event has evolving as go-to-event to experience the urban hustle of old-town Bhaktapur passing through major squares, chowks, gallis (alleys), streets and vehicle roads of Bhaktapur in a package.
CyCon Special is format devised to cover all the special activities in which Cycle Connect Bhaktapur participates as a co-organiser or get invited with special mention. Events like Nhu Da Rally, Special Heritage Ride, Cycle Rallies are conducted under this program.
CyCon Workshop is organized with plan to grow the skills and knowledge related to cycling activities. These workshop ranges from technical skills development to research based activities. Basic MTB Repair workshops and research on Perspective towards Cycling inside Bhaktapur Municipality has been conducted under this program.
Cycle Connect Bhaktapur is organizing the 21 Days Cycling Challenge to coincide with the new year, inspired by the notion that it takes 21 days to form a habit and 90 days to establish a lifestyle change. The 21 Days Cycling Challenge seeks to connect individual development aspirations with broader societal objectives, fostering personal growth and a sense of accomplishment through cycling to cultivate a healthy habit and effect positive lifestyle changes.