A Bike Repair Station with a handy cradle, bike tools, and an air pump is a welcome sight for cyclists

Adding a Bike Repair Station as an amenity to any community is catching on across the county. Want to encourage more bicycle riders in your town? Want to create goodwill with cyclists by providing a handy place where they can maintain and fix their bicycles? Want to boost your bicycle infrastructure to make life easier for cyclists?

Here are 10 solid reasons to add a bike repair station to your location:

1. ENTICES MORE PEOPLE TO BIKE THAN DRIVE - seems like just about every town has traffic issues. More and more people today own a car. Families don't just own one car. Every family member has one. More and more cities are spending millions to add bike lanes and encourage people to

Bike rooms with vertical bike racks, bike lockers and bike repair stations

Bike rooms providing secure indoor storage are a great way to attract cyclists as future renters or employees.

(FYI: The expert planners at Park and Facilities Catalog offer free bike room layouts and diagrams to help maximize bike storage).

That's why the number of indoor bike storage areas are trending up and are becoming more and more prevalent around the US.

There are several reasons for this.

First of all, people invest some serious time and money in bicycles today. The days of the clunky old boneshakers are over.

Today bicyclists are riding bikes made with aerodynamic lightweight carbon frames, disc brakes, automatic shifting systems and all sorts of high-tech gadgetry.

It's not uncommon f

Bike repair stations are being added to more colleges, such as Oakland University in Michigan, to encourage students to ride rather than drive. The stations help with minor adjustments and repairs to keep bicycles safe and in good working condition

Bike Repair Stations are a simple yet very effective convenience you can add to a location if you want to promote bicycle commuting instead of driving.

These bike tune-up stations send a strong message that your college, apartment building, office or store or even entire town caters to cyclists.

This is one strategy used by Oakland, University in Rochester, Michigan. The school enrolls 20,012 students and as you can imagine, that would be a large amount of vehicular traffic to accommodate if they all drove to class.

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Bicycle commuters are willing to pay extra fees for secure, indoor bike rooms

One of the best ways to offer more amenities to guests and residents while also growing business is by establishing fees for extra services. People are willing to pay for additional features and understand that the fees go towards administrative costs.

Charging additional fees is a viable path for growing your business. It provides additional income to put back into the property, allowing it to stay up-to-date and in tip-top shape. These new upgrades make it appealing for visitors from younger demographics to revisit your facility and, better yet, bring their friends.

These are also known as ancillary-revenue programs—or any revenue outside

Jack the Bike Man Hairston in the charity's massive warehouse of bikes that are rebuilt and given to those in need

When some guys retire they like to spend their days playing golf. Not Jack Hairston. He likes to give away bikes. Not just a few of them, but thousands of them. To needy kids and their families.

"I just wanted to make the community a little bit better," he says, and adds "What else would I be doing?"

At the age of 75, Jack "The Bike Man" will be at it again this holiday season.

His bicycle giveaway is an annual spectacle in West Palm Beach, Fla., that attracts hundreds of families every year. From his enormous warehouse with the giant bicycle mural painted on the front, he and a dedicated team of volunteers distribute recycled bicycles to at-need children of all ages. This is an event that really can make a big difference for a child or family without a bike.