About Tim Blumenthal
Tim Blumenthal is the president of the Bikes Belong Coalition, the U.S. bicycling industry association dedicated to putting more people on bicycles more often. He has led this growing national organization since September 2004.
Blumenthal also directs the Bikes Belong Foundation, an affiliated 501c3 national non-profit group that works to enhance children's bicycling, develop bike safety projects, and build a powerful national movement of individuals who ride bikes and want safer, more appealing places to ride. The Bikes Belong Foundation hosts the Peopleforbikes.org campaign.
The Bikes Belong Coalition and Bikes Belong Foundation together stand as the world's largest non-profit bicycling advocacy organization, with a combined annual budget of $4.6 million.
Blumenthal previously served 11 years as the executive director of the International Mountain Bicycling Association. Under his leadership, IMBA grew from a single staffer and $60,000 annual budget into the world’s largest mountain bike advocacy group with 24 employees and a budget of $2.1 million.
Blumenthal began his cycling work as a journalist, serving as an editor for VeloNews from 1980–84. He later became the managing editor of Mountain Bike Magazine and the racing editor of Bicycling Magazine. He was a top editor/writer at Rodale Press for a decade.
Blumenthal has been a TV commentator for more than 35 ESPN and OLN/Versus mountain bike programs. He has served as the scriptwriter and consultant for the U.S. network TV cycling coverage of the last seven Summer Olympic Games. He was elected to the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 2001.
He is an executive board member of the Safe Routes to School National Partnership and an executive board member of the America Bikes Coalition.
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