Overview - “How America can Bike and Grow Rich, The National Bicycle Greenway Manifesto”
Rich in well researched history, Krieg’s book also shows how it was transportation that shaped the America that we know. And as he and his small group move from Mayors’ Ride city to Mayors’ Ride city, he will be showing how worthy bicycle infrastructure can renew not only the health of our cities but increase the wellness of our collective body, mind and soul.

The philosophies and perfect world scenarios that he has woven through out the book about a more two wheel centered America, have deep roots. Much of the foundation of Krieg’s writing is built upon his decades of experience as a cyclist, his two bike rides across America and the business plan that he long has updated as a work in progress for the National Bicycle Greenway.

As more and more people become aware of the troubles facing Mother Earth and look for ways to reduce the size of their carbon footprint, Krieg’s book offers timely solutions to the mess we have made of our planet.
“How America Can Bike and Grow Rich, The National Bicycle Greenway Manifesto” (HBGR) is author, Martin Krieg’s much awaited sequel to “Awake Again”, the true story of his two bike rides across America after first rehabilitating himself from two months in a coma, right side paralysis and clinical death. His new book shows the life work he prescribed for himself in his autobiography. HBGR is set around the visualization he long has held, with the nonprofit organization he established, the National Bicycle Greenway (NBG), for a coast to coast network of bikeable roads and paths

Transecting the country for a third time, Krieg will be doing this ride on an antique, 19th century HiWheel bicycle. Besides the bio-diesel bus that will support his ride as it also tows the 15-person Busycle to the 25 Mayors’ Ride cities that stand between San Jose and Boston, Krieg’s book will cover a wide range of topics. For example, he will be using his speeches and dialogue with reporters and the people he meets along the way to describe the many benefits that will accrue from a fully actualized NBG.
“How America can Bike and Grow Rich, The National Bicycle Greenway Manifesto”
Overview


1. After "Awake Again" (which ended in Boston 1986)
- '87 to '94 Publish Cycle America Regional Directories
- '95 move Greenway vision on line as BikeRoute.com 
- '97 begin Cycle America 2000 campaign ending at DC for millennium
- 2002 begin national Mayors' Rides
- 2003 move from Santa Cruz to Palo Alto begin daily HiWheeling
- '09 HiWheel over Sierras to Salt Lake City w/109 mi ride across barren Salt Flats
- '10 HiWheel destroyed by car wreck
- '11 Move to Ireland have Baby Krieg build Ireland into ride and NBG
- '12 USA/Ireland SJ/SF to NYC/Boston  

2. San Jose - 
Quote: The Hardest Part is Getting Started
- San Jose City Hall send off gathering
- Describe mechanics of ride involving Eagle, Busycle, Bus to reporters
- How Mayors’ Ride build NBG explained to press
- How Greenway needed by old people so can ride trikes, quads
- San Jose and its return as a top biking city
- San Jose CIty Hall Mayor proclamation and gift for Boston Mayor

3. Palo Alto to San Francisco 
- Tour bike amenities of Palo Alto, one of nation's top bike cities
- The cyclist's  view of Peninsula Cities
- Changed cycling of San Francisco & City Hall reception
- Expand on ow Mayors' Rides build National Bicycle Greenway for reporter
- How NBG's on line mapping will get cities near and far all connected
- How National Bicycle Greenway  will be paid for
- Why and how the Eagle HiWheel was the high performance HiWheel of its day
- Parade ride down Market Street to Ferry Building

4. Oakland a Beautiful Bike City
- Ferry ride enjoy the magic and history of the SF Bay
- Ride Jack London’s home turf
- Promenade Oakland’s crown jewel, Lake Merritt with youth bike group
- Discuss NBG Business plan of Hubs, Stores, Museums, Recycled Bikes, etc, to kids
- How NBG foment consciousness establishing cyclists as trend setters w/Apple Computer example, bike hub conspiration, Law of Entrainment, etc

5.  Berkeley to Napa
- Restaurant dialogue reflect on Oakland reception
- Ride Dialogue: Influencing kids to bikes now and Greenway movements
- Ride Dialogue: Trikes, 4-wheelers c/o infrastructure for old and non athletic people
- Berkeley Mayor's  reception with Bates, Father of Traffic Calming
- Skot Paschal deliberated on
- Vignette: Show/Explain HIwheel to Old Man, Grandson
- Meet ride with Napa  Eagles to Napa Mayor’s reception fun
- Calistoga town visit & explain benefits of being Car Free, NBG drunk driver program

6.  Sacto to Reno
- Breakfast Dialogue discuss HiWheel Ride up American River Trail 
- Stay with Greenway visionary, Lynn LePage, family & ride with
- Big Picture view of  Greenway 
- How Mormon Immigrant trail opened CA to the East & ride over the Sierras on it
- Carson City reception and non stop  bike activist Jeff Moser
- Reno History including its bike racing and former home turf for Greg Lemond
- Reno reception warmth with Mayor Bob, Councillor Aizzi, Scheduler Marcia

7. Reno to Salt Lake City
- Ride America’s Loneliest Road across Nevada w/history of the four towns we pass thru
- Salt Lake City History including Temple Square, its layout and railroads
- Salt Lake City reception with Bike Mayor Ralph Becker & other bike politicos

8. Salt Lake City to Boulder/Golden/Denver
- Biking formidable Wasatch Mtn Range to Dinosaur
- Biking CO desert towns to Steamboat oasis
- Ride over Trailridge (World’s HIghest Highway)
- HiWheel legend Steve Stevens and Boulder & Golden receptions
- Denver History and reception

9. Denver to Omaha
- Riding historic Hwy 30 - how this corridor settled the West
- Part Omaha played in opening Hwy 30/Platte River Basin
- How Omaha opening West again - to People Power w/Bob Kerry Bike/Ped Bridge connecting to Iowa

10.  Omaha to Des Moines
- Des Moines agricultural past and white collar/recreation future
- How investors facelifted computer nerds to trend setters and how they will do same with cyclists as dialogue how NBG biz plan w/saturate mass consciousness with bikes
- Des Moines reception

11. Des Moines to Chicago
- Ride to Chicago w/explanation of how it once was the most active bike city in USA and world
- Busycle demo day at Rapid Transit Cycle 
- How Chicago & Mayor Daley pushed bicycle to forefront once again

12. Chicago to Indianapolis
- A dying Rust Belt City, how Indy reinvented itself with Greenways
- Ray Irvin, Mr Greenway - how make his system national (w/interview in appendix)
- Indianapolis reception
- Answer reporter w/how NBG use Lincoln Hwy example to build coast to coast Grenway 

13. Indianapolis to Cincinnati
- Rob Currens, the Voice of Cincy, and his bike heroics
- Cincinnati Cycle Club fills historic Cincy City Hall w/bikes and who's who of cycling in Cincy
- Mayor Mallory honors us once again
- Reser Bikes Busycle  reception

14. Cincinnati to Columbus
- Maryellen O’Shaugnessey leads annual Parade Ride with city officials and bike dignitaries to City Hall
- Why I traded recumbent for HiWheel to help the NBG and Why the HiWheel unites al cyclists
- How the recumbent will help get older America back on a bike
- Columbus Outdoor Pursuits & Rosemarie Rosetti receive us 
- Why so many people live in Columbus

15. Columbus to Pittsburgh
- From City of Smoke to an Environmental Leader 
- Pittsburgh excitement of receiving first ever Mayors’ Ride relay from DC
- Mayor Tom and Ro Fischer introduce NBG & Mayors’ Ride to America
- Venture Outdoors receives us at their festival

16. Pittsburgh to DC
- Overview of ride down C&O canal path to DC
- Overview of DC and reception
- HiWheelers join us for ride to nearby Mount Rainier, the home of Cycle America 2000
- Mount Rainier History
- Mayors Fred & Melinda welcome us to Mount Rainier

17. DC to Philadelphia
- Janet Panic music reception at Philly Bikes
- Tour Independence Park to HiWheel led cavalcade to City Hall
- Intersperse Philly history
- Philadelphia reception

18. Philadelphia to New York CIty
- Overview NY as ride along Hudson to Manhattan historic City Hall & reception
- Brooklyn Bridge crossing, its rich history and ride up Long Island to Port Jeff ferry
- Circus Promoter, PT Barnum’s Ferry to Bridgeport, CT (where he was also the Mayor)

19. New York CIty to Boston
- Bridgeport story to Post Road with its forgotten history
- Providence, RI  history 
- Revisit inspiration for NBG dream, the Cape Cod Rail Trail  to Provincetown and it history
- Boston reception w/read gift from San Jose Mayor
- The birthplace of bicycle in America coming full circle
- How NBG can be made real in Ireland and how America will follow
- Reflect on wealth the bicycle had given me and how NBG can help me share it with Ireland and USA


Appendix
Lincoln Highway - first coast to coast highway & NBG similarities
Busycle - how it can save the planet
How Mayors’ Ride could be a “Survivor” TV series
Ray Irvin, Mr Greenway Interview
Why I Ride Hi
What I Ate

About the Author:
NBG Director, Martin Krieg, has pedaled across the nation twice. The 1986 ride he did for the National Head Head Injury Foundation on a recumbent bicycle reached 40 million people for the cause of head Injury in and amongst his public speaking and TV and radio appearances. For seven years, until 1994, his company Cycle America, published many tens of thousands of bicycle guides of which the theme was the National Bicycle Greenway (NBG) and long distance bike touring.

The nonprofit organization that became official in 1989, the National Bicycle Greenway, has, since that time, launched and celebrated, many with festivals, seven coast to coast bike crossings. The NBG has also produced seven successful coast to coast Mayors' Ride campaigns and not only has Krieg written the book “How to Bike America”, but he has also personally inspired, coached and consulted on over a dozen other successful transcontinental bikes rides.

In the summer of 2009, in an attempt to call attention to the NBG, in what now amounts to a test run because of horrific weather, Krieg rode the Eagle HiWheel, the only one like it in active use in the world, from San Francisco to Salt Lake City. In 2010, his Mayors' Ride/Author Tour on the amazing Eagle was put on hold by a car that turned left in front of him. In 2012, after two attempts, we now have all the tools and experience needed to make the 10th Anual National Mayors' Ride, the most spectacular bike ride to ever cross the Nation.