Bike to the Polls!!!

Flambeaux Bicycle Tours bumped into WGNO ABC News in the Treme. When we pulled up I greeted an acquaintance, New Orleans journalist and media professional Casey Farrand. I then noticed Morgan Walker…I met her at a bike safety meeting earlier this year. She’s the founder of the nonprofit Bike N Vote.

Bike N Vote is a nonpartisan 501 (c)(3), state-based civic engagement and movement building organization working year-round to create a more accessible, inclusive, and representative democracy for young people of color. Over the past 2 years, Young People Vote, in partnership with Bike N Vote, has engaged and registered those young people that believe that their voices have been muzzled in the democratic process.

While we’re not affiliated with Bike N Vote it was perfect timing for us to pull up while they were filming the segment. They asked if they could film us and use one of our bikes in the footage. We were more than happy to oblige…Especially for something as brilliant as organizing young people to register to vote and get them out to the polls in a fun and creative way.

If you live in New Orleans check out their website here and consider joining them on a future bike ride to the polls. There’s no better way to get there then by bicycle!

— Eric Gabourel, Le Comte des Bicyclettes