Interbike 2018

Tim Blumenthal
President
People For Bikes


Tim Blumenthal is president of PeopleForBikes, the nation’s leading bike advocacy organization making bike riding better for everyone. He has led this growing nonprofit since September 2004. (It began in 1999 under the name Bikes Belong.) Tim previously served 11 years as the executive director of the International Mountain Bicycling Association. Under his leadership, IMBA grew into the world’s largest mountain bike advocacy group. He began his cycling work as a journalist, serving as an editor for VeloNews, the managing editor of Mountain Bike Magazine and the racing editor of Bicycling Magazine. Tim has been a TV writer/ commentator for the cycling coverage of seven summer Olympic Games and more than 35 ESPN and OLN/Versus mountain bike programs. Blumenthal was elected to the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 2001. Tim currently serves on the UCI Advocacy Commission and is a member of the international steering board of the World Cycling Alliance.

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