The Goal
The goal of the Car-Free Challenge is to get people to replace car trips with bicycling, walking, transit, or carpooling. These trips can be to work or school, the grocery store, the video store, out to eat, or just to visit friends.
How To
You can participate with a team or on your own. Many people form teams at their workplace, with a club, or with friends. Once you start, just come back to this web site to log your miles. We automatically calculate all of the rankings in real time.
The Rules
We will be ranking teams and individuals on several scales. The overall top team prize will go to the team with the most miles. Winners of the individual categories will also receive prizes. The Car-Free Challenge mostly runs on an honor system, but we do ask for your home and work ZIP codes in case of a dispute.
Rankings in the non-bike categories are determined by the number of trips made, not the miles travelled, so be sure to log each round trip separately.
Team
- Total miles for all modes (bus/carpool miles counted at 50%)
Individual Categories
One male and female will be awarded prizes in each category
- Most bike miles
- Most bike miles by a new commuter
- Most walking trips
- Most bus trips
- Most carpool trips
The Prizes
Prizes are donated from many local bike retailers. Ecologic Designs based in Boulder, CO were chosen for there Green Guru line of products. Green Guru "products utilize reclaimed, recycled and renewable materials for the most positive impact with the smallest footprint."
Bike Week is supported in part by Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality funds.