Bike Team Rules and How to Create a Bike Team

Community members can participate in the Bike Everywhere Challenge by riding a bike to work, a business, a park, or anywhere with a destination. Create or join a team with friends, neighbors, or coworkers on the trip calendar at RideTogetherPierce.com and start logging your bike trips (instructions below). Teams with a minimum of four members are in the running for the pizza party. Riders must be 18+ to log trips and win prizes.

The new trip calendar allows individuals and teams to view the Bike Month leaderboards in real time!

Bike Everywhere Challenge Team Rules

1. Teams must have 4-12 participants including one captain.
2. Multiple teams may be formed at the same workplace or in your community.
3. During the Bike Everywhere Challenge, participants log bicycle trips in the online calendar at RideTogetherPierce.com.
4. Bike at least 10 trips (5 roundtrips) each to be considered for the team pizza party prize.

Team Captain Responsibilities

1. Recruit team members from your place of employment, your building or your community.
2. Choose a team name, something fun and splashy, or perhaps something that best describes your company, type of work or group.
3. Follow the directions below to register your team.
4. If riding to work, act as a liaison between team members and your Employee Transportation Coordinator (ETC), if applicable. Report registration and results to the ETC for your workplace.
5. Captains may decide to elicit support from their employer to encourage participation or provide support and incentives. Support could include providing bike maps, assisting with route planning, forming commuter convoys or hosting a bike mechanic pop-up. Incentives could include bike accessories, a small gift card to a local bike shop or retailer, a breakfast station, flex schedule on bike days, or extra paid time off.
6. Encourage teammates to log their rides for a chance to win prizes!

How to Register Your Bike Everywhere Challenge Team on the Trip Calendar

1. The new trip calendar has a user help center. You can follow the steps on this website and refer to their guide "How to Create a Bike Team" as well.
2.  If you are not already logging trips, you will need to create an account on the trip calendar. Begin by clicking on New User Sign Up and complete the registration form.  Already registered?  Simply click Login. 
3. On the dashboard, click on Programs, then Challenges on the top purple bar across the top of the page.
   1. If it's before May, the Bike Everywhere Challenge will be listed under "Available."
4. Click the green Create a Team button.
5. Name your team and add a description, if desired. 
6. Click the green Save Team button.
7. You are now listed as the Team Captain. Start inviting members to your team by clicking on the blue Copy Team URL link and sending that to your potential team members. 
8. Other trip calendar users will be able to see all registered teams. They can also request to join your team. You, as the Team Captain, have the authority to approve or deny these requests.

How Do I View Team Standings?

On your trip calendar dashboard, you can toggle between the individual and team leaderboards on the right bottom side.

How Can Our Team Win, and What Do We Win?

The top three performing teams will be invited to a combined pizza party. The top performing teams will be determined by the highest number of bike rides logged by members who logged more than 10 trips during May 1-31. Logging 10 trips is a pre-qualification for any prize during Bike Month. Ride Together Pierce staff will reach out to the winning team captains to organize a pizza dinner celebration with all three teams.