As the 2024 Go Outside Festival approaches this weekend, the city of Roanoke is making it easier to get to the festival without a car.

Cycling Without Age is about helping older people participate, meet people and remain an active part of their communities. The program offers safe rides on a trishaw, a special bicycle that allows a volunteer peddler to transport one to two people in the front seat of the bike. Volunteers sign up to “pilot” the elderly and are trained to incorporate the program’s principles: generosity, storytelling, without age, slowness, relationships.

Normally, you can pedal to the metal on one of the 75 Roam NRV bikes to enjoy the Huckleberry Trail, commute around Virginia Tech or ride through Blacksburg and Christiansburg.But now it’s come to an abrupt halt. Each of the 16 bike hub locations in the New River Valley has an out-of-service sign.