About Bike Travel

The people behind
the research.

An independent consultancy grown out of sixteen years inside the Philly Bike Expo community, four years of dedicated audience research, and 35 years of cycling industry experience.

Bike Travel is an independent cycling-tourism consultancy and content studio. We work with destination marketing organisations, communities, and grant partners to develop bicycle tourism as a meaningful economic driver — grounded in research, not guesswork. Our survey of 249 experienced cycling travellers is the only dataset of its kind focused on this audience.

Paul Skilbeck
Principal & Co-Founder
Levi's Gran Fondo — co-founder; 3,000 entrants year one, $2.5M+ revenue to Santa Rosa
British Mountain Bike Federation — founder
International Mountain Bike Press Association — founder
Union Cycliste Internationale — founded & managed website
IOC Online Results & Information Services — work group member
Olympic Games — ran biggest pre-Games story, 2000
Sea Otter Classic — communications director, six years
Philly Bike Expo — communications consultant, 2015–2026
NORBA National Series — press officer, 2000–2005
Race Across America — press officer, 2003–2006
NICA — communications consultant, 15 years
UCI World Championships — press officer ×2
Press services — Nike · Tissot · Grundig
35 years working with the world's leading cycling event organizers, local organizing committees, and host communities. 15 years in Europe · 20 years in North America.
Bina Bilenky
Principal & Co-Founder
Philly Bike Expo — co-founder & event director, 2010–present. Built PBE from concept into the premier mid-Atlantic cycling event — 16 years of audience research, exhibitor relationships, and community development.
Tour d'Afrique — assistant tour director & communications officer. Led 50 participants by bicycle, Khartoum to Cape Town · 2014
Embrocation Cycling Journal — columnist, 2011–2013
Bilenky Cycle Works — sales & marketing director, 2005–2009
Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program — field research, Equatorial Guinea · 2008
16 years ago she built the expo. She's ridden Khartoum to Cape Town and knows this audience from both sides. The cycling tide has turned to touring.

Our story

Bike Travel grew out of sixteen years of working closely with the Philly Bike Expo audience — the most engaged cycling community in the Mid-Atlantic. Bina has worked with PBE attendees and exhibitors for sixteen years, Paul for ten. Year after year, we watched this audience mature: older, more affluent, more interested in travel, more experienced on the bike. The data kept pointing in one direction.

Over the past four years we formalised that observation into a proper research programme — culminating in a bicycle tourism survey of 249 experienced cycling travellers that is the first of its kind focused on this specific audience. The findings are clear: the demand for cycle tourism is real, it's growing, and it's concentrated in a demographic that destinations are not yet reaching effectively.

Bike Travel exists to bridge that gap — connecting destinations, communities, and grant partners with an audience that is ready to ride.

Ready to work together?

We work with DMOs, communities, and grant partners across Pennsylvania and beyond.

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