SHASTA BIKE CHALLENGE
Shasta Bike Month & Challenge: May 1st-31st
What is the Shasta Bike Challenge?
The Shasta Bike Challenge is a collaborative effort of the bicycling community to engage new, old, and current cyclist to ride as much as they can whether it is for transportation or just for fun! Participants can register as an individual or join a team on our tracking platform, Love to Ride. The challenge is free and all level of riders are welcomed!
This year’s 2019 Challenge is from May 1st to 31st. All participants are entered into a free drawing for great prizes each day they ride their bicycle to work, school, or wherever they may want to go (up to 31 entries)!
Our local Shasta Bike Challenge is tracked on the Love to Ride platform, a partner in conjunction with the National Bike Challenge. The tracking platform allows participants to easily log and track trips with current leader board rankings based on mileage and points.
Steps to Register
Sign-up today! For a full description on how to register, click here.
Rides will be tracked and logged on the National Bike Challenge platform, Love to Ride.
Love to Ride are online bike challenge experts and already run bike challenges around the world. They have teamed up with the National Bike Challenge to make improvements so the bike challenge will be more exciting and ultimately more successful at encouraging more people to ride, more often. For more information about the challenge, visit Love to Ride.
Celebrate 31 days of Shasta County biking!
May is bike month! In honor of this, Shasta County is celebrating with a full month of rides and events!
Bike Month Calendar Full Details 2019
Bicycle Friendly Business Nominations
Bikes are good for business! Nominate your business or organization for the 2019 Bicycle Friendly Business Award to receive recognition for your efforts in creating a better community!
Submit your nomination by Sunday, May 19th at 2019 Nomination Form . It only takes a few minutes and it’s FREE!
The winner of the Bicycle Friendly Business Award will receive:
- Public recognition for enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthy, vibrant community!
- A ‘ribbon cutting’ event with Facebook Live at your location with the Redding Chamber of Commerce
- 1-year membership to the Redding Chamber of Commerce
- A bicycle rack from Healthy Shasta and Viva Downtown
- Be an honored guest and receive the award at the Shasta Bike Month Celebration on June 7th
What is a Bicycle Friendly Business? It’s a business or organizations that takes steps to make it easier for their employees to commute by bike (thereby supporting employee wellness, productivity, and satisfaction) as well as making it inviting for customers to arrive by bike (which contributes to a vibrant community and high quality of life). For examples of how your business can be more bicycle friendly, see the examples of the local nomination form or visit the League of American Biyclist’s website.
More details about the 2019 Shasta Bicycle Friendly Business Awards are on the Fact Sheet.
Looking for someone to ride with?
Check out one of these local organizations who would love to ride with you.
Shasta Wheelmen
Shasta Living Streets
Redding Trail Alliance
Local Recreation Opportunities
Not sure where to ride? We got you covered. Check out the Local Map Listings for a list of local trails.
Looking for a Mountain Bike trail to ride with a full map description? Check out the Mayor’s Mountain Bike Trails.
“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike.”
2018 Shasta Bike Challenge
The 2018 Shasta Bike Challenge RESULTS!
We gave out certificates for the following categories:
- Top Workplaces, Teams, and Schools (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
- 3k Club, 2k Club, 1k Club
- Top Riders Shasta Bike Challenge
- Top Riders Love to Ride
- Top Commuter
- Top Riders
- Black Out Riders
- Top Male & Female Riders (Most Miles)
- Top Male & Female NEW Riders (Most Miles)
- Top Encourages
Here is a list of our 2018 Daily Shasta Bike Challenge Prize Winners.
Questions? Call 229-8456 or email shastabikemonth@gmail.com
