Bike For Breath

Bike for Breath’s goal is to encourage everyone to help make our world a better place to breathe–by riding a bike! We share current research about ways that cycling can help reduce air pollution and lung disease. And we provide events, tips and stories on our blog to help others who want to travel by bicycle—whether to the grocery store with your kids, or across the globe.

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On World Asthma Day, carrying six panniers, two tents and one stuffed pink pig, Paula and Lorenz Eber set off on two tandem bicycles with their eleven year old daughter, Yvonne, and her thirteen year old sister, Anya. 480 days later, they returned to Washington D.C. having cycled  a 14932 km (9332 mile) circle around the world by bicycle, to raise $64,416 for clean air and asthma.

In 2022, Falcon Guides published a book about the family’s cycling adventures across twenty-four countries through Europe, Asia, the South Pacific and North America.  Breathtaking: How one family cycled around the world for clean air and asthma is filled with exciting and hilarious stories of the family’s escapades battling drug smugglers in Russia, sleeping in a Japanese love hotel, being bitten by a poisonous centipede in Tonga, and camping through a tornado in North Dakota, Breathtaking not only inspires and entertains readers, but continues to raise money for asthma and clean air. Bike for Breath donates $1 to the asthma nonprofits, AAFA and Saahns, for every copy sold.

The story does not end here. The Ebers have continued to cycle and raise awareness of asthma and clean air in far flung places across the globe, pedaling through an additional 14 countries from Cambodia to Tahiti to Costa Rica. They founded Bike for Breath to encourage others to adventure by bicycle and help save our air, and lungs–one person at a time.