Represent.

For those of you who don't know, Bicycle Indiana has started a blog over at their site. It is only being updated once a month right now, but I believe plans are to make it a more regular thing eventually.

Steve Surette is this month's guest blogger, and posted a solid piece called Are You Ready to Be a Representative? which tackles some of the same feelings I had when I first started tossing the idea for Indy Cog around with Ben back in February.

For years people have been doing things for us when we can do for ourselves. As a self-employed 47 yr old this was the nagging feeling when my 16 yr old daughter introduced me to Facebook for my Home Inspection Business. I thought there must be others who are looking to contribute to cycling outside of the traditional bureaucracies so I threw my lot in with Facebook and began “Friends of Hamilton County Cycling” hoping others would contribute within this type of forum. I chose Hamilton County in part because this is where I live, but in part because I couldn’t get my head around a something as large as a state wide responsibility.

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Local representatives, such as yourself, could link these people together and or coordinate these efforts.

So have you been looking for a way to contribute? I wonder how the State of Indiana would benefit if Bicycle Indiana had trained local help at the grassroots level? What skill set do you have?

Full post here.