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When you’re ready to sign up, see if your team is already registered. If it isn't, register yourself and your team at the same time. You will become the Team Captain, by default. (This can be easily changed.) Here’s what happens next:
- If you’re the captain, invite your coworkers or friends to register and join your team
- Download the challenge app for iPhone or Android. Don't have a smartphone? Log your trips here. We also have Strava integration, sign up using your Strava account.
- Log all of your bike trips, wherever you go! But be warned: TA's team reviews unusual submissions, so be prepared to explain how you managed 200 miles before breakfast!
- Keep tabs on how your team is doing — team rankings are updated in real time. Transportation Alternatives will award:
+ The teams (three awards, one per size category) with the highest number of trips
+ The three individual riders with the most miles -
Additionally, keep your eyes peeled for weekly challenges from TA! These challenges will take participants all over New York City and offer them the opportunity to win prizes!
Teams of all sizes in the five boroughs are welcome to join the Challenge. Whether your friends hit the park for laps every evening, or you're trying out commuting by bike with coworkers, the Bike Month Challenge is for you!
The Bike Month Challenge is 100 percent free. It’s perfect for bikers of all ages, cycling veterans and newbies alike. We'll individually award the mileage moguls, but even one trip around the block or a loop in your neighborhood park counts as much to the success of your team as a trip around Manhattan!
Previous challenge participants include thousands of employees at more than 600 corporations and nonprofits including Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Sam Schwartz Engineering, Tiffany and Co., Streeteasy, Etsy, Con Edison, Google New York, Amplify Education, and Saks Fifth Avenue.
Bragging rights, a fresh perspective on biking NYC and tons of great prizes!
And if your company’s leadership is looking to boost productivity and lower costs, look no further: bike commuters are proven to lower healthcare premiums and be loyal to employers who value their lifestyle.
At the end of the challenge, Transportation Alternatives will honor the winning teams and individuals and applaud everyone who rode in the Challenge.
The team captain has administrative abilities on the website — they can add and delete team members, change passwords, email the entire team, and more. For workplace teams, the team captain may also take on social responsibilities if they so choose, organizing bike commuters' events or benefits with their company. Transportation Alternatives will provide each team captain with promotional materials for their office. And if two people are interested in sharing these responsibilities, we can easily add a co-captain to any workplace team. Captains will win an individual prize as well as share in the team prize.
In short, anyone! Friends, family members, roommates, coworkers — anyone that's up for the challenge (whether they're in New York or New Zealand) will be a great teammate!
