Steven Jackson

The Good Company Bike Club was started during the pandemic, and rides for equity, inclusion, change?but most of all fun. Andrew Bennett, founder of the Good Company Bike Club, has one guiding rule for the group: ?As long as you have good energy, you?re welcome to ride,? he says. Since late May, when he founded the biking group, he?s led dozens of rides throughout the city: to Roosevelt Island, to Coney Island, to Brooklyn Bridge Park, and to see the many Kobe Bryant murals that have popped up in the wake of his death. In early August, Bennett hosted one called ?We Bike Too,? which spoke to the club?s mission to shine a light on the fact that biking, while more and more popular in the city, has a deservedly uninclusive reputation, all while working up a sweat, exploring different parts of town, and having a good time. The ride began at the Brooklyn Museum, where some folks arrived on Citi Bikes, some came fully suited up in spandex, some were on single speeds, and some on regular old road bikes. A young girl, probably about 10 years old, had magenta streamers on her handlebars. By 11 a.m., the group gathered on the museum?s concrete steps had swelled to at least a few hundred people.
Before the group set off on the 6.5-mile journey to Shirley Chisholm State Park in East New York, Bennett, a 33-year-old Brownsville native who seems to smile with his entire body, addressed the crowd, which was mostly Black men and women. ?Cycling should not be reserved f...