Update: This is 2011's challenge. If you're looking for 2012, it is here!

Join Louisville’s Bike Challenge
September 16-29, 2011

Form a team with your friends or co-workers. Win fame, glory, and prizes. Ride your bicycle new places!

How the Challenge Works

1. First form or join a team of about five co-workers, friends, neighbors, or whoever you know that is interested in bicycling more. Teams can be any size, but only the top 5 scorers will count towards your team’s point total.
2. No more than two team members can be "experienced" riders - people who have taken more than 365 trips by bicycle in the last 365 days.
3. All team members will register through the GreenLightRide website under a team name you create - creativity is encouraged.
4. Each one-way trip you make by bicycle is worth one point, whether it’s riding to work, to the store, to appointments, to a friend’s house, or just for fun. Log your points on greenlightride.com.
5. At the Bike to Work Day celebration, the team with the most points wins the golden handlebars and the reputation as being the bestest bikers in Louisville!!! Join the victory party at 4th Street Live!, around noon on September 30th.

Glory! Prizes!

All serious contestants will win a set of emergency bike lights from Bike Louisville. Additionally, the winning team will recieve these fabulous prizes:

• Custody of the coveted "Golden Handlebars" trophy
• Championship helmet mirrors, locally hand-crafted by Bud's Helmet Mirrors
• Championship cargo panniers, locally hand-crafted by Agent Ümlaut Designs

There may be more prizes materializing, so check back later!

What's the Score?

Here is the scoreboard.

You and your teammates should log in and record your individual trips every day in September. When you log in, you will be able to see how the other teams in the Louisville Commuter Challenge are doing.

If you have questions about signing up, contact me. Have fun out there on your bikes!

Have we enticed you? Are you excited about bicycling? Are you ready to form a team and sign up to win fame, glory, and adoration? Terrific! Here's what to do:

Creating your First Team in Mind-Numbing Detail

• Go to www.greenlightride.com
• Either log-in or click “register” in the upper-right hand corner for a new account
• Fill in the form and click “submit”
• Write down your username and password so you don't forget
• Navigate the menus to Teams > Create Team
• Pick a brilliant name and click “submit”
• Click on the name of your team to go to your team's page
• The easiest way to invite friends and co-workers to join your team is to copy the URL address from your team's page and send it to people you are trying to recruit. The top 5 scorers will count towards your point total.
• Now enroll your team in the Louisville Commuter Challenge! Go to http://greenlightride.com/competition/view_challenge/171/