2008 Stats & Results
- 2008 Bike To Work Week Carbon Footprint
- Links to detailed Worksite/School Challenge Results
- The 2008 Worksite Challenge Winner’s Circle
- BTWW School Results
- The 2008 BTWW THANKS
- Commuting Tips
- See pictures from Bike To Work Week 2008 on our Images page
The OFFICIAL 2009 Bike to Work Week isn’t until May 10th-May 15th, But..
EVERY WEEK IS BIKE TO WORK WEEK!
FBO has sponsored Bike to Work Week in Flagstaff since 2002. BTWW 2009 is just around the corner, but bike commuting in Flag is possible almost year-round! We want to remind all you bike owners out there to keep your ride primed and oiled, ready-to-go and On-the-Road. Keep those the streets, paths, and bike lanes flooded with fun loving, healthy, happy cyclists.
Bike to work week demonstrates the tremendous potential Flagstaff’s population has to make a difference by commuting by bicycle. We can make that difference count more by bike commuting more often. Let’s keep the FUTS trails busy with cyclists and make every week Bike To Work Week.
THANK YOU!
Susan Hueftle
Bike To Work Week Coordinator
>>>How many Participated? What was our Carbon Footprint? And who all can we THANK? Read on…
Results of the 2008 Challenge
Bike to Work Week was not without some challenges of its own. Like snow…on Tuesday, that tested the mettle of our fair-weather bike-commuters… and our numbers -slipped by half. Overall we did great, FBO asked the greater Flagstaff cycling community to up the ante and the resounding response was “SURE, WE CAN DO IT!”
And Flagstaff did. Try these figures on for size:
- 2541 people logged in all week
- 1157 Individuals participated
- 170 Worksites registered (159 participated)
- 19,780 Miles were Logged
- Average Commute: 7.8 miles
That’s an improvement of 40-55% OVER last year’s participation level. FLAGSTAFF CYCLISTS ROCK!
Longest Commute: 56 miles Matt Shaw (FMC-ER) & 55 miles, Drew Miller (Gore Med-East), 50 miles-Mars Brimhall (FMC-ICU)
Mars Brimhall logged 131 miles in 4 days.
Worksite with the greatest cumulative miles: 88 folks at Gore-Kendrick Peak logged 1120 miles; 670 miles for Lowell Observatory, 590 miles for Gore-Woody Springs Engineering. Prodigious!
2008 Worksite Challenge Carbon Footprint and Stats from 2008:
How much energy did we save? The average car on the road might get 16-17 mpg in the city…That’s…
- 1,240 gallons of gasoline, OR…
- 6,600 pounds of carbon*
- 24,140 pounds of carbon dioxide that we spared the atmosphere
*This only includes carbon in the gasoline itself; not the carbon cost of exploration, extraction, refining and delivering of gas, much less the political/environmental costs of continuing petroleum supplies. BIKES ARE COOL!
How much did we burn? 19,800 miles for the average pedaler might require 865,000 calories or…
- 1,230 Big Macs
- 2,790 Slices of Pepperoni Pizza
- 5,090 Veggie Burgers
- 4,330 Donuts
- 19,650 Servings of Broccoli
- 1,910 Pounds of Tofu
- 5,440 Fat Tire Ales
- or
- 250 Pounds of fat we burned off.
And that was just one week. Think what we do each week of each year. Think what we would accomplish if we maintained the BTWW number of bikes on the road year-round? Here’s hoping that each of you will ride just a little more each week.
Find detailed Worksite/School Challenge Results with these links:
- Worksite Challenge Team Stats for 2008 This spreadsheet ranks each category of teams by participation rates and shows detailed results of the Worksite Challenge. PDF Summary Here (545 Kb).
- Grouped Worksite & School Challenge statistics with the large “mega” groups (NAU, City of Flag, FMC, Gore, Retailers, etc.) statistics grouped at the bottom. PDF summary here (169 Kb)
- 2007 Worksite Challenge results and summary stats grouped by “Mega” teams with summary stats at the bottom.
The 2008 Winners of the Challenge
Large Worksite: 35 people or more (5 day participation rate)
- Lowell Observatory 35.8% 7.2 miles/commute/person
- USGS Buildings 4 & 5: 34.0% 7.12 miles/commute/person
- Gore- Woody Springs Engineering: 24.5% 12.1 miles/commute/person
Small Worksite (9-34 people)
- Absolute Bikes 96.3% 4.5 mi/commute/person (They deferred the Breezer bike to PRO)
- Professional River Outfitters, Inc. 88.3% 7.37 mi/commute/person
- Arizona Raft Adventures 73.5% 7.52 mi/commute/person
Micro Worksite: (3-8 people)
- Wilkens Bike Train Shuttle 80% 15.5 mi/commute/person
- COF Police Dept-Com Relations 75% 9.62 mi/commute/person
- NAU Honors Program 66% 6.59 mi/commute/person
School Challenges:
There were some determined individuals participating in the school challenges… future coordinators?!
Sinagua High School won the Golden Sprocket Trophy-High School Division for highest bike-commuting rate on Thursday with 10.6%. Flagstaff Arts & Leaders Academy and Flagstaff High also had good participation. Good Going Y’all!
Northland Prep Academy won the Golden Sprocket Trophy for the smaller/middle school division, 2008. Great going! Caroline Rynn, a NPA student, rode 30 miles one day. Awesome, girl.
Pine Forest Charter Elementary School had the highest Week-long participation rate amongst all schools. Exceptional!
These and and the following schools participated all week long.
Middle Schools included Flagstaff Middle School and Mt Elden Middle School.
Pine Forest, Mt Charter, & Sechrist were the leaders among the Elementary Schools (K-6): Puente de Hózhó, Knoles, Sechrist, DeMiguel, and Thomas also logging in… Great start kids!
Parochial Schools got on the board this year!(P-8th grade): Mt Calvary Lutheran, San Francisco de Asis.
THANKS to all the people who participated…
- to each newbie that saddled up,
- to each veteran cyclist that logged in “even though they bike everyday”,
- to all the businesses and worksites that pitched in raffle prizes to entice more people to pedal,
- to the worksite coordinators that gently prodded (or bludgeoned) their coworkers to join in,
- to the many volunteers that gave of their time, wits and energy or donated bikes,
- to the businesses and volunteers that sponsored breakfast stops,
- to the FBO board–past and present, who started BTWW in Flagstaff,
- to Lucas Brunelle for donating his videos,
- to sponsors FMC, Emmitt Barks Cartography, and Sam’s Club,
- to Absolute Bikes for donating “Seasons”,
- to Breezer Bikes for donating the Freedom bicycle prizes,
- to our title sponsors-the City of Flagstaff,
- and New Belgium Brewery,
- and not the least…
- to $3.70 a gallon gas!
To ALL OF YOU… THANKS… we are all making Flagstaff a more Bicycle Friendly City!
The Worksite Challenge
We want to get more people out of their cars and on their bikes, so FBO has been challenging worksites to motivate their employees to do just that since 2002. The most rewarding part about the event is showing new people how easy and fun riding to work or school can be. This is why we do the challenge. This year’s challenge will ran all week! from Monday morning to Friday night.
How it works…
Each office or sub-office is lead by a heroic and motivated volunteer worksite coordinator. Their job is to distribute information we will provide to the workers at their site, helping them get started if they are new to bike commuting with bike, routing, and safety tips. Each participant logs on to our website from May 11th to 15th, reporting their name, worksite and miles pedaled. Logging-in qualifies participants for daily raffle prizes and increases their worksite’s participation rate. The top worksites in the large and small categories win a Breezer Freedom commuter bicycle for everyone to use for errands at the worksite. AND they are telling Flagstaff (and it’s city planners) how we value bicycles
commuting.
We break it down into 2-3 categories: Small, Medium and Large worksites. Exact boundaries of employee numbers will be announce later. In the case of a tie we look at the highest average per-person round-trip distance. Each winning business in the medium and large categories will receive a Breezer Freedom Bike!
SOME CHANGES IN THE CHALLENGE THIS YEAR:
More Pedalers… More Success!
To encourage greater participation, we are counting 5 full days toward the commuter bike winners. This means the coordinator for contending worksites needs to provide FBO with worksite total numbers everyday, as well as the number of pedestrians or bus-riders.
Huge worksites are a huge challenge for the worksite coordinator. FBO strongly encourages worksites of more than 100 people to subdivide into smaller (legitimate–no cherry-picking the cyclists!) location-based groupings; such as different floors, buildings or departments. These are easier to manage and motivate! It’s best to coordinate people your work around and see everyday, even if that includes cutting across departmental divisions in favor of building or wing clusters. FBO is also challenging each worksite to enhance the BTWW challenge with intra- and inter-worksite challenges. Put up your own prizes or wagers and we will referee the results. City vs County? UPS vs Post Office? Accounting vs. Shipping? And be sure to let us know the results and we will announce who wins!
We are adjusting worksite size classifications as well to encourage more participation. The “Large Worksite” will be 35 or more people, and the “Small Worksite” will be 9 to 34 people. We will try having a “Micro-Worksite” category of 3-8 people, if we can secure an adequate prize (please stand-by). Rotating work-sizes should give more Flagstaff employees the opportunity to compete for the Breezer Freedom bikes.
Can your worksite ante up some raffle prizes? Your worksite can demonstrate its commitment to bicycle commuting by donating to our raffle. Consider gift certificates, merchandise, services, etc. They’re tax deductible! Your worksite will get advertisement on this website when the prize is announced and a warm fuzzy.
Everyone wins in this challenge. Worksites that register will get a package of incentives including event info, bike stickers, an event poster, the latest BiOpic newsletter, and bike suitability maps with loads of commuting and riding info. All registrants will be placed in a raffle for great giveaways courtesy of our sponsors.
In addition, by showing your support you will be providing us and the city with valuable knowledge about the value of our bike system and proof of the importance of developing facilities wisely. Most importantly you realize the many pleasures of a little fresh air before and after work.
Each Worksite has a Coordinator whose role is to:
Register your worksite. Worksite coordinators can register their organization, as well as provide anticipated numbers of employees and cyclists. If you are having trouble signing up as worksite coordinator, contact Susan and she will help you. If your place of work is already registered, please contact the point person to express your support and see how you can help with efforts to encourage and register co-workers during B2WW.
- Start encouraging coworkers to ride and get them excited about the challenge for the coming week.
- Hand out the list of events, and instructions for each person. (See below)
- Make sure everyone understands how the challenge works.
- Starting Monday, May 11th, everyone who rides each day should visit the site and follow the Log-In link to the participation form. This allows us to keep track of bike rates, giving us clout to advocate for better bike path and routes. It also qualifies each participant for the daily prize drawings. Logging in is super quick and easy.
- If you don’t think a participant will sign-in or does not have access to the web, please arrange to do it for them.
- The worksite coordinator needs to log in each day to enter the total number of employees that worked at the site that day– as well as how many people walked or road the bus.
For everyone who rides: The log-in registration will start Monday the 11th at 12:01 am and run daily through Friday midnight. Every day we will have drawings for terrific prizes donated by local businesses who support this event- free meals, bike accessories, outdoor gear, etc. We admit part of it is an incentive, part a lure for you to register and so we can prove how many people are participating.
Past Winners:
Small Worksite
2007: NAU Honors Program
2006: Biff’s Bagels
2005: PRO River Outfitters
Large Worksite
2007 and 2006: Flagstaff Medical Center Emergency Dept
2005: Lowell Observatory
Stats from 2007:
- 1874 people logged in all week
- 763 Individual Participants
- 123 Worksites Registered
- 14,388 Miles were Logged
- Average Commute: 7.7 miles
- Longest Commute: 35 miles, Kerri Love, Novakinetics
How much energy did we save? The average car on the road might get 17 mpg in the city…That’s…
- 846 gallons of gasoline, OR…
- 4,516 pounds of carbon we spared the atmosphere
Way to GO!
How much did we burn? 14,400 miles for the average pedaler* might require…
- 890 Big Macs
- 2,030 Slices of Pepperoni Pizza
- 3,700 Veggie Burgers.
- 3,140 Donuts
- 4,060 Pounds of Broccoli
- 1,380 Pounds of Tofu
–Hope you’re hungry
*Assuming our average rider is 155 lbs and cycles at a moderate effort of 563 kcal/hr.
Information Packet DOWNLOADS:Here’s pdf’s of the information in the 2008 worksite package. To conserve paper resources and prevent waste, we will include 20 sets in the “Large” worksite, 10 in the “Small”, and 5 in the “Micro”. You can print out more for you worksite here. Check back later if you are interested in pdf’s of the commuter maps of Flagstaff.
If you are unable to download and print more yourself, contact us.
- 2008 Worksite Challenge Coordinator information, tips and rules (1.5 Mb PDF)
- Schedule of 2008 Events (1.9 Mb PDF)
- Participant instructions and other bike events (1.3 Mb PDF)
- BTWW Poster (0.7 Mb PDF)
- Biopic breakfast map (0.9 Mb PDF)
Other great resources and information:
- Safety Tips (0.9 Mb PDF)
- How to ride your bike to work in ten easy steps (short document)
- The League of American Bicycles has some great brochures with commuting tips, bike selection, safety and maintenance tips. Link to their terrific PDF.