Gentlemen start your engines - well, feet.

In honor of National bike month, UTA's Rideshare program sponsored its annual Bike to Work Day, where the community was invited to forgo driving cars and instead take the bike to work or school.

A variety of bike enthusiasts showed up Tuesday morning to get a free bike tune up and free bike swag, and then cycle three miles to support the cause.

Even Provo Mayor Lewis Billings came out to join in the fun and to speak on the benefits of biking around town.

"With the price of gas going up by the hour, it's a really good thing," Billings said.

Dan Treasure, a University of Utah student who is living in Provo for the summer, agreed that the rising gas prices will get more people to start biking.

"Before they realize it's important, it's going to hit their wallets," Treasure said.

Becky Canning, who works at the Utah County Substance Abuse Center, was excited to come out and join the cause.

"I've done it every year since I've worked here," said Canning, who heard about the event through her job at the courthouse. "And it's always nice to get up and get a free tune up."

Not only did adults participate in Bike to Work Day, but children were excited about it, too. Even though the event started at 7:30 a.m., Sariah Hillam, a Provo mother of four, was still able to get her children up and ready for the event.

"They were excited to come, and that's why they all got up," Hillam said.

Hillam said she likes to bike around town because it teaches her children they can get exercise doing practical things like running errands. Hillam said she chose to live close to downtown Provo so she could ride her bike to get to school and run errands.

"You see more of the area and who your neighbors are when you're not going some where in a car," Hillam said.