In our most recent fiscal year from July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026, individual donors were key to turning bike dreams into reality, providing nearly $150,000 in support to HBL. Mahalo nui loa! These gifts are among the most valuable support we receive, providing essential flexibility to supplement grant funded programs like BikeEd, respond to emergent needs, as well as provide general operating support.
As we look ahead to the new fiscal year beginning on July 1st, we want to continue building relationships with donors at every level. Together, you can help us to champion safer streets for all and turn more bike dreams into reality, especially for those most in need.
Please read a few highlights of our shared accomplishments, in four key program areas – Advocacy, Education, Events & Community and consider if you can make a new or renewed gift or pledge to keep this momentum going through 2026 and into 2027.
Advocacy:
Through education, organizing, rallying, and remembering, our community turns out. Together, we helped pass new statewide legislation that creates a regulatory framework for e-bikes and micro-mobility devices. This foundation can address twin crises of safety and affordability, providing important new definitions for low-speed electric devices and guidelines for using these devices. In turn, we hope this will create opportunities for people to choose lower cost transportation solutions, like e-bikes and access a state-funded rebate program.
Public policy and behavior change relies on connecting to new and bigger audiences through broadcast and social media, professional conferences and training sessions, as well as community meetings. With donor support, HBL has been recognized as an expert voice for bicycling, road safety, shared streets, and multimodal transportation.
Education:
BikeEd brought in-school and on-bike education to over 300 4th grade classrooms across O‘ahu. We also offered one-on-one skills building for dozens of young people through specialized workshops and group rides. Teaching the fundamentals of bike safety to this audience gives young people the chance to learn skills like teamwork and self-confidence that can provide benefits for a lifetime.
We also presented a diverse continuum of workshops reaching more than 2,200 adults.Our fleets of recumbent tricycles, e-bikes, youth bikes, and analogue bikes are used regularly to spread the joy and camaraderie of cycling for people of all ages and abilities.
Most of our education programming is available at no cost to participants and is funded through grants provided by the City’s Department of Transportation Services, the Hawai‘i Department of Transportation, and private foundations. However, these grants do not fully cover our costs. In the past year, we have seen drastically increased expenses for maintenance and operations, especially for fuel and insurance. Your gift today of $1,000, $500, $250, $50 or any amount helps us to bridge this gap.
Unique Special Events
More than 1,500 participants from 9 countries, nearly 30 states, five Hawaiian Islands and more than 450 first-time participants joined us for one or more special events including the Honolulu Century Ride in September 2025. It featured a 2-mile car-free section along the spectacular Kaiwi Coast. See the video below for some thrilling footage from last year’s event. We invite you to join us September 25-27, 2026 for the Honolulu Century and Ride Aloha Festival.
Individual gifts from donors like help us to keep registration fees affordable and make a real difference to create the best days to Ride Aloha!
While we had to cancel this year’s Hale‘iwa Metric Century (and the fundraising platform it provides) due to the devastating impacts of the 2026 Kona-low storms, we were able to pivot with an expanded offering for National Bike Month, including an official proclamation by Mayor Blangiardi in a ceremony at Honolulu Hale.
Throughout May, we partnered to present rides and activities statewide, including on Kaua‘i, Maui and Hawai‘i Island. On O‘ahu, we led a contingent as part of HTLA’s Charity Walk, hosted energizer stations for commuters as part of Bike-To-Work Week, and held the first ever BikeFest @ SALT at Our Kaka‘ako, including a cycle swap meet, helmet giveaway, bike maintenance workshop and Pau Hana. There was the inaugural Costco Gran Fondo, a roundtrip route connecting all four Costco locations from Hawai‘i Kai to Kapolei, Waipiʻo, Iwilei. Special thanks to the Costco Team that provided free food and refreshments.
With partners at KVIBE there was an extraordinary youth-led ride to explore the Kalihi Ahupua‘a by bike and ending at Mauliola (fka Sand Island), a multimodal event linking Skyline and the historic Hawaiian Railway, and a closing bike ride in Kaka‘ako to celebrate World Bicycle Day.
See the Bike Month Photo Gallery below and know that most of these events were produced at no or low-cost to participants. We want to strengthen this model and keep prices affordable, because everyone deserves to access the mental, physical and environmental benefits of cycling. Your partnership helps to make this possible.
Volunteers at the Pearl Harbor Bike Path Spring Cleanup
Strengthening Community:
As island residents, we know the value of community. We have to be there for one another to foster resiliency, support recovery, and help marginalized communities to thrive. HBL partnered with more than 25 local nonprofit and community organizations, including the Kupuna Shed, KVIBE, and Cycle Mānoa. Through our Maui Bicycling League chapter, we delivered 30 new e-bikes to fire survivors on Maui in a partnership with Ulupono Initiative and the Samueli Foundation. We also launched a new chapter, the Maui Mountain Bike Coalition.
Our roots as a community leader harken back to one of Hawai‘i’s original bicycle advocate, Prince Jonah Kūhiō. He was a founding member of the Pacific Wheelmen, local chapter of a national organization known today as the League of American Bicyclists.
Your generosity ensures we are able to continue leading community activities and to bring the next generation of bicycle advocates to the vanguard of safer streets and cleaner bikeways for all. Will you consider a new gift today of $1,000, $500, $250, $100, $25 or any amount to support our work?