Bike to Work

Wow, what a fantastic event.

14,000km in just one week, Sunshine Coast Cyclists totally rock. We doubled our last year’s kilometres, enjoyed an endless list of spot and door prizes, and made one particular boy in Roberts Creek very happy after winning the Grand Prize Bike Give-away from Spin Cycles. Congratulations to Max Shaffer.

The Wrap up Party was also a hoot, with nealy 150 folk showing up at the Cafe, some fantastic pizza, a great start to bike polo on the Coast, even a guest appearance by our MLA Nicholas Simons.

After a week of collecting data, SC BTWW are pleased to annouce the following Team Prizes.

Large Team: Field Road Rollers(SCRD) with a massive 844.8km, win 4 x $40 Spin Cycles Vouchers

Medium Team; Chatelech Staff, another 678.5km, brings home 4 x $25 IGA Vouchers

Small Team, Equipe du Pacifique, 259.5km gives them 20 x $2.25 bus tickets

Now that you’ve created a team it’s time to sign up as many team members as possible, and eventually, to track the kilometres your team rides during Bike to Work Week.  Below are links to two versions of participant sign up sheets that can be used for this purpose.  If you prefer you can create a google document spreadsheet where team members can log their own km’s on a central site.  We can send you directions on how to do this. 

sunshinecoastbiketowork@gmail.com

Day 5 of BTWW and we still have 63 teams registered - that’s now 19 more than last year.  Pretty impressive for our small set of communities. 

Rider counts at the stations have been impressive….check this out:

Monday: Gibsons-52, Sechelt -27, Langdale-10

Tuesday: Gibsons- 35, Sechelt- 37, Lower Gibsons- 15

Wednesday, Gibsons- 51, Sechelt- 25, Gibsons E school - 80 students, 30 parents, Roberts Creek- 15

Thursday: Gibsons- 54, Davis Bay- 15, Sechelt- 34

Friday: Gibsons- 65, Sechelt- 20, Roberts Creek School- 108 students, 20 parents

Now let’s concentrate on making sure each team captures as many riders as possible for next week and that we’re safe on the road. 

If you’ve not yet formed or joined a team, perhaps someone in your office has already created a team. See the list below and join now.  Or join one of the community teams from Gibsons, Sechelt or Roberts Creek.