As the director of the NBG, in the summer of 2009, Martin Krieg flew a trial balloon when he rode the historic 1891 Eagle HiWheel from San Francisco to Salt Lake City to promote our nonprofit National Bicycle Greenway. His 2010 attempt ended because a car turned in front of him, destroying his bike. It was then that he moved himself and the Eagle to Ireland where he biked as much as he could <link> in between the weather and the little boy <link> he brought into the world . This as he also learned a lot about the Greenway successes the Irish are enjoying (his meeting with Enda Kenny, the Irish president/Taoiseach) .
He returned to the USA in the summer of 2015 and landed in Davis, the once inarguable Bike Capital of America where he enjoyed their 2017 – Bike lane 50th Anniversary and had minimal success staging rides and festivals.
Unhappy with the progress he was making there he moved to Indianapolis in the fall of 2017, where to his delight he discovered a bicycle city that only now people are starting to discover. In the build up of his relaunch of the National Bicycle Greenway from Indianapolis, his extensive research of the city has produced “How Indianapolis Built America and How it will Rebuild It with the National Bicycle Greenway”. Along the way he has also discovered that Indianapolis is home to the most bike friendly downtown in America and is blessed with the Cultural Trail, the only downtown greenway in the world. To get an overview of what Indianapolis looks like, go HERE!