I am Martin Krieg, a graduate of Cal State Hayward and former accountant. I have crossed the country twice on a bicycle after first rehabilitating myself from paralysis, clinical death and a seven week coma as a result of a car wreck.

In 1979, I rode across America on a standard upright bicycle. For my second trip across America in 1986 I rode a recumbent bike and organized media events, public speaking and fund raising for the National Head Injury Foundation. That ride reached 40 million people.

In order to inspire others, I have written and had a book published called Awake Again  which goes into detail about the above and will resume my writing and public speaking once the next chapter of my life's dream, the NBG, can stand on its own:

Since 1987, after my last bike ride across America, with my small web publishing company called Cycle America, I have been beating the drum for a network of safe bikeable roads and paths called the National Bicycle Greenway (NBG). In Washinton, DC we produced Cycle America 2000. In Santa Cruz, CA we produced a Lighthouse Party, Swing for NBG and Festivals. Here now in Palo Alto, CA, we still produce the annual National Mayors' Ride and the Mountain Movers Podcast series. In addition, I have also written How to Bike America and am working on a business plan for the NBG as well as what amounts to the sequel for "Awake Again' called “How America can Bike and Grow Rich, The National Bicycle Greenway Manifesto” (HBGR).

I took the 2007 Mayors' Ride season off to devise a fully interactive Google mapping system that runs like a game while building community to let users calculate, request, plan, utilize, store, display and vote on bike routes. I did this all toward the end of making bike and not car travel the focus of the new map I foresee so we can fully impregnate the American consciouness with bicycling. It will be this mindset that will accelerate the need to turn the principal roads and paths we identify for safe coast to coast bike travel into the National Bicycle Greenway heaven I know can be made real.In the summer of 2009 then, when I ride my HiWheel from San Francisco to Boston, my Mayors' Ride/Author Tour will also be seeking funding for the 108 page web mock and equally as large business plan rhetoric I have created that fleshes out the Map Vision I hold.

The dreams I want to make real will be hard to ignore thanks to the Busycle, the 15-person pedal truck we have on loan from Boston artists, Matthew Mazzota and Heather Clark. The Bio Diesel Bus that will be supporting my next journey, will also be towing the attention getting Busycle to 22 different Mayors' Ride cities as it returns one insanely fun vehicle to the large community that built it.