The 7th annual Bike to Work Week Challenge is from May 12th to May 15th, NOON, 2008. Along with the tank load of bike-centric events and festivities around the town, anyone interested in helping the community as well as the environment can jump into the Bike to Work Week Challenge.

The Worksite Challenge:

FBO asks each workplace that would like to take part, to register here. (Not yet silly). On Monday, May 12th, starting at 12:01 am, anyone who rides to work can go here and submit to us the details of their commute that day.

We will distribute information packets to participating worksites once folks start registering.

To Win:

FBO will tally the number of employees at each worksite who worked that day (Worksite Coordinators provide this number when they login each day) against how many people actually registered their commute that day on this site.

The winner will be based on that ratio (riding to working) and FBO will announce the winner at the Thursday Night Bike Movies.

What’s the winning worksite get? A beaUUtiful Breezer Freedom commuter bike for the whole worksite to share for worksite errands, and the sense of pride that is inherit in winning the challenge.

So what if you register after Thursday noon through Friday? Each day of the week, FBO will draw from the list of those of you who commuted by bike, to win raffle prizes every day of the week.

The Nitty-Gritty, Anal-Retentive Rules of the Challenge:

1.  The worksite challenge will go from Sunday midnight to Thursday noon. Logins for each day must be in by midnight (or noon on Thursday).
2. Large worksites must have 35 or more people at work, at minimum, each day of the challenge, if you are in doubt, register as a small worksite.
3. Small worksites will have 9 to 34 employees, again, with a minimum of 9 each day of the challenge.
4. Worksites smaller than 9, or unaffiliated commuters, will not qualify for the Breezer bicycle, but all participants have an equal chance at raffle prizes. Sorry. Just remember, we’re all winners when Flagstaff Bikes to Work.
5. Your total worksite size includes everyone that comes to work that day. But you should keep track of how many people walk or take the bus to work each day. They can’t login as cyclists, but they are deducted from your worksite total used to calculate the percent of participation that determines the winner of the challenge. Ex. One day 8 people bike, 1 walks, 2 take the bus, and 15 drive a car to work. Your “small” worksite total is 26. The 8 cyclist login and qualify for the daily raffle, and your percent participation is 8/23 or 34.8%.
6. The worksite coordinator must login each day and report their worksite total count as well as the number of people that walk or bus to work. If they can’t login that day, they can appoint a proxy that will report that information. The proxy can login with the coordinator’s name, but their own email.
7. The worksite coordinator can login their teammates once they know that each person has biked to work that day. Each person can only be logged in once per day.
8. Redundant entries will be deleted. If cheating is detected, the suspect will be contacted and that team will be disqualified from the challenge and daily raffle drawings.
9. If the challenge is tied after the 3 ½ days, the winning team will have the longest average miles per person commuted.
10. “Bus-N-Bike” or “Park-N-Bike” cyclists can take the bus or drive for a portion of their commute, but only the portion ridden on the bike counts for the “round trip distance”.
11. If a bike is used for running errands, those miles can be included in the round trip miles.
12. No commutes less than a half block (180’) count. Are you really suggesting you were going to drive your car that far?
13. Any worksite where 2% or more of the employees drive Hummers will be automatically disqualified, publicly shamed and ostracized. (not really, but maybe next year…)

Any Questions?, or, have your lawyer talk to our lawyer..Get ready to ride!