Cycle September

2026 Cycle September – September 1-30

Cycle September is back!

Cycle September is a fun, free challenge! You, your friends, and your co-workers are all invited to participate. The aim is simple – to get more people to enjoy the benefits of riding bikes. You can ride anywhere, anytime in September to participate.

Everyone is invited – from total newbies to pedal-pushing pros. 🚲

This year, participants can also earn points and prize entries by ‘rating their routes’ – giving valuable feedback on what it’s like to ride on local streets and helping make the community better for biking.

Log your bike trips on the Love to Ride App or website or by using an app like Strava and Garmin. You can win local prizes as well as great national prizes, like a $3,000 vacation prize! Here’s how to participate in Cycle September:

👉 Sign up for Love to Ride – you’ll answer some quick questions that assess your rider level: new, occasional or regular rider

👉 Register for the challenge – you will receive custom emails that guide you through the challenge and connect you with resources to help you ride more

👉 Log rides on your profile or using the Love to Ride app. Download it for Apple or Android devices. All rides will count in the challenge!

👉 Rate your Route. This year, participants can earn points and prize entries by ‘rating their routes’ – giving valuable feedback on what it’s like to ride on local streets, and helping make the community better for biking. Use the app to paint your route with your finger, coloring each part by how it felt — comfortable here, stressful there, enjoyable here. Add a comment if there’s something specific worth flagging — a rough patch of road, a stretch that felt unsafe, a part you love riding. Your anonymous feedback is combined with everyone else’s on a map to show where biking feels good, and where it feels stressful. See how it works in this video!

👉 Join your workplace to ride up the leaderboard with your co-workers

👉 Check out your progress on the individual leaderboards.

👉 Read user stories, share your own, set goals, and access educational content in our Learn area.

How does the scoring work?

Individuals ride to earn points and workplaces compete against others of a similar size to earn the most points.
Points are earned for every mile, day ridden, person encouraged, and route rated!
1 point = 1 prize drawing entry. The more points you earn, the greater your chances are of winning prizes.

You can get your family, friends, books clubs, sports teammates, anyone involved by joining a club or group on Love to Ride.

Love to Ride’s Cycle September is funded by Shasta Regional Transportation Agency, which means it’s free for anyone who lives or works in Shasta County to participate. We want to work together to achieve our health, wellness, and sustainability goals.

Be a Citizen Scientist! Download the Love to Ride app & contribute to better cycling in Shasta County

By downloading the Love to Ride app, enjoying bike rides, and rating your route on how comfortable it was for you after each ride, you’ll contribute anonymous data that can make our community better for bicycling! This anonymous data is shared with transportation agencies to show where people are riding and where they feel comfortable and uncomfortable. See how this is possible by watching this 2.5-minute video from Love to Ride.

Avid Strava user? That’s great! You can still help to make our roads more bike-friendly by also using the Love to Ride App. Even if you have both apps running during the challenge, they are designed not to double log rides. You can connect to both and be a citizen scientist! Auto-logging with the Love to Ride App helps to catch those shorter bike trips that you might not remember to start/stop, but they still help paint a picture of how our residents are getting around by bike!

Shasta Bike Month Community Events & Rides

See the full list of events and rides HERE.

There is no upcoming event

Want to stay connected?

Sign up to be notified on Bike About Shasta Rides!

Bike About Shasta rides are beginner-friendly rides designed to teach you how to explore your neighborhood and community by bike. Whether you want to do a quick errand by bike, ride to school or work, or just get out to enjoy nature, these rides are for you! The rides in this series will feature safety tips for riding in traffic, let you experience the comfort of riding in a group, and familiarize you to routes that may be different from motor vehicle routes. Click here to add your name and email to the contact list to be notified when these rides are scheduled.

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Shasta Bike Month and Challenge

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 Bigfoot Adventure Challenge routes and maps.

“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike.”