Get Listed

How listings work

Two independent knobs, not a page count. You tell us your service area — the routes or city your business actually serves. That determines which route and city pages display your listing. Today, listings appear on per-route pages (e.g., /routes/c-and-o-towpath-georgetown/) and on the city pages those routes are anchored to.

Your tier then determines how you appear. Basic is a compact listing in the page’s “Nearby Businesses” section, grouped by category with similar businesses. Featured is a prominent card in the “Local Partners” section near the top of the page, with a photo and a short pitch. Regional gets Featured-tier placement across every covered route within a broader service area — useful for shuttle services and shops covering long routes (C&O, GAP, BWI Trail).

Listing tiers

Who’s a good fit

• Bike shops — sales, service, fittings, demos
• E-bike dealers — cargo, commuter, mountain, demos & rentals
• Bike rental for tourists — especially in DC, Annapolis, Baltimore, Harpers Ferry, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia
• Shuttle services — for point-to-point routes (C&O, GAP, BWI Trail through-rides)
• Bike fitters — saddle, cleat, posture; physio-adjacent shops welcome
• Skills clinics & guides — group rides, road skills, urban-cycling instruction
• Bike-friendly lodging — trail-town inns, hostels, B&Bs with secure storage
• Cyclist-friendly cafés — early hours, calorie-dense menus, parking, no judgment about kit

Who isn’t

No national chains, no online-only retailers, no operations that route customers onto roads with active hazard advisories or push closed trails. We keep listings relevant so they actually get used — and we reserve the right to remove listings that misrepresent route conditions or steer riders toward unsafe practices.

Editorial integrity

Paid listings appear in clearly-labeled sections on relevant pages. They never reorder our route rankings, the “best today” list, or the score breakdown. The whole reason this site exists is that the alternatives sold their integrity — we won’t.

Bike towns and trail-town corridors

Bikeshare cities pull a serious tourist audience — Capital Bikeshare in the DC region, Indego in Philadelphia, POGOH in Pittsburgh. If you run a bike shop, repair stand, or rental near a high-traffic Bikeshare station, those riders are who you want to reach. Same goes for trail towns at the ends of multi-day routes (Cumberland, MD as the GAP/C&O junction; Harpers Ferry, WV on the C&O; Pittsburgh, PA at the western end of the GAP), the bike-tourism corridors of Annapolis and Baltimore, and the gravel-curious crowds around Frederick, Leesburg, Lancaster, and State College. Email and we’ll figure out the right service-area shape together.

Ready to start?

Email [email protected] with:

• The listing type you’re interested in — Basic, Featured, or Regional
• The routes or cities you serve — one for Basic/Featured, or a broader region for Regional
• A bit about your business — what you do, what kind of cyclist you serve, where you’re based

We’ll review the fit, confirm your service area, and be in touch.