A “bike bus” is a beautifully simple idea: instead of everyone riding to work or school alone, a group follows the same route at the same time, picking up riders at stops along the way — like a bus, but on bikes. It’s safer, it’s social, and it gets more people out of cars.

The hard part was never the riding. It was the organising — and proving it happened. So we built both into Party Onbici.

Bike buses, properly organised

Any organisation — an employer, a university, a school, or a council — can now run bike buses on Party Onbici:

  • Official routes with pickup points. Set the commute route once and drop pins for each stop, so riders know exactly where and when to join.
  • Ride leaders. Appoint staff champions or parent volunteers to lead each ride and look after the group.
  • Join by link. Share one link; people join the organisation and see its rides. No spreadsheets, no chasing.
  • Private to your organisation. Org rides are visible only to members — not the public.
  • Recurring schedules. A Tuesday-and-Thursday morning bike bus generates itself week after week.

The part that makes it a program, not just a ride

For an employer running a wellness or sustainability initiative — or a council reporting on active travel — the ride is only half the job. The other half is showing the impact.

Every organisation with reporting enabled gets an ESG dashboard and export:

  • Participation — active riders and total trips
  • Active-commute distance
  • CO₂ avoided and fuel + cost saved (calculated for your region)
  • Car trips replaced and parking spaces freed

Download it as CSV, Excel or PDF and drop it straight into a sustainability report, an ESG filing, or a funding bid. It’s the difference between “we ran some rides” and “here’s the carbon we kept out of the air this quarter.”

Privacy by design

Aggregate numbers are exactly that — aggregate and anonymised. Reports for small teams are withheld entirely until a group is large enough that no individual can be picked out of the figures. Buyers get the headline outcomes; riders keep their privacy.

Who it’s for

  • Employers — a turnkey corporate-cycling program with the wellness story and the ESG numbers.
  • Schools — parent-led bike buses with a participation record to show the community.
  • Councils — a concrete active-travel outcome to point to in SUMP reporting and funding applications.

Start a pilot

If you’d like to run a bike bus for your workplace, school or city, get in touch — we’ll help you set up your organisation, invite your first riders, and get your first report.

The commute is more fun in a group. Now it’s measurable, too.