Bike Week / Bike to Work Day 2011

[susan.wells]

Michiana Bike to Work has a corporate challenge. My company has a team and we've won the corporate challenge the last 4 years. You could contact the coordinators of this organization for suggestions.

[CommuterChick]

Ours is June 22, give people a chance to rev up (April is still one of our snowier months. We did have a winter Bike to Work day here in Boulder, in January). Anyway, BTW day is huge, it's regional, it's organized in the Denver-Boulder area by the Denver Regional Council of Governments and various local entities, like our Go Boulder office, see http://www3.drcog.org/biketowork There are competitions among businesses to see who has the most riders, who fields the best free breakfast station, of course a prize for the longest commute, all kinds of events throughout the week like free tuneups, and even during the month, like the always popular Boulder 360 which is a ride that links up paths in town circumnavigating the city (there's a 180 too). There are various silly contests as well, sometimes involving costumes. Last year's Boulder page is http://www.bouldercolorado.gov/index...45&Itemid=3253

Oh yes, our week includes bus commuters too. As long as you don't drive you get a free breakfast. I work from home now, but it's a rolling party on BTW Day, so I ride my bike the 9 miles into Boulder, past my old office, to my favorite breakfast station, our community radio station -- not only do they always have homemade blueberry cobbler, but they also have a bike mechanic!

[Melalvai]

We're doing a Bike & Walk Commuters' Day on April 29. We called it Commuters' Day instead of Bike to Work day because one of the breakfast stations is near the university and one is near the public school campus. Bike & Walk to Work & School Day seemed awkward. We picked April 29 as the Friday before graduation weekend, so that students will still be around.

This is our first ever event of this kind and I'm basing it on what PedNet has been doing in Columbia for 10 years. Anyone who arrives at a breakfast station under their own power gets free breakfast.

I hope next year, our grant will have come through and we'll have paid staff to organize it. This year, I'm organizing it with a lot of other volunteers--this during the same month that I have 4 grant deadlines. I admit it is a seriously rough month.

Good luck!

[tangentgirl]

Thanks everyone, this is all great stuff. I'll let you know what we come up with.

[Trek420]

Silly question but is there a site that has all the different dates/events? I'm trying to get some coworkers involved and it's a pretty far flung group.

[tangentgirl]

Trek, the LA site is http://www.metro.net/around/bikes/bike-to-work/, but I haven't seen any place that has comprehensive dates for different cities.

[Biciclista]

OUr bike to work month is May (and bike to work day is in May too) I have had a team every year since 2006. Lucky for us we have the largest bike club in the world right here in Seattle so they do all the organizing.