Bike Wise Month 1-28 February 2010
About the event
Bike Wise Month has a huge selection of fantastic, fun-filled, safe cycling events for all Kiwi's to enjoy. Maybe you haven't been on a bike in years, or maybe you're teaching your kids to ride, perhaps you've been thinking about riding to work but don't know where or how to start, or it could be that you just love cycling already. Whatever your state of mind, there's something for everyone.
Key Dates
Go By Bike Day, Wednesday 17 February 2010
Go By Bike Day will be happening all over NZ on Wednesday 17 February 2010. Thousands of Kiwi's will strap on their helmets and try getting around in a more active, healthy and money saving way. Go By Bike Day is a great way to encourage Kiwi's to leave the car at home and try cycling to work or school for a day. It's fun, easy and costs nothing!
Bring your bike on-board
MAXX is supporting Go By Bike Day by offering all cyclists FREE Bike space on-board MAXX trains on all lines before 7am and after 9am.
Mayoral Challenge, can be held any Saturday or Sunday during the month
In February 2009 nearly 50 New Zealand towns and cities competed for the title of Cycle Mad City by getting as many people as possible to follow the mayor on a fun bike ride. Rain or shine, Kiwi's around the country showed how much they love their bikes by turning out in force behind their Mayor. A point was given for each participant, and bonus points were given for community leaders, local and national celebrities.
Bike Wise Challenge (formerly Battle), 1-28 February 2010
The Bike Wise Battle has been renamed and is now the Bike Wise Challenge.
The Bike Wise Challenge runs from 1-28 February 2010 and is open to any New Zealand organisation (businesses, schools, churches, scout/guide groups etc). The Challenge is a fun, free, online competition which encourages you to swap your chair for a bike saddle and give cycling a go during Bike Wise Month. Organisations compete against others of a similar size in their region to see who can get the highest percentage of members/staff riding their bikes.
It's all about getting people to try cycling, and to think about swapping some car journeys for trips by bike (sorry, excercycles don't count)!
There are fantastic prizes for the winning organisations, as well as spot prizes for individuals.
Links and Useful information
Bike Wise is a nationally coordinated initiative that promotes cycling as a sustainable, fun, healthy and enjoyable means of transport, and cycle safety. Bike Wise is funded by the NZ Transport Agency and the Ministry of Health and is the only nationwide programme of cycling events.
Official website
www.bikewise.co.nzWhat happened in 2009?
Nationally there were 57 Go By Bike day breakfasts with approx 10,000 participants: 48 Mayoral Challenges with 14,000 participants, 650 organisations competing in the Bike Wise Battle with over 13,000 participants. Plus around 200 other cycling related events and activities in schools and communities around NZ.
In Auckland, there were 60 organisations and 1300 people signed up for the Bike Wise Battle. The Auckland Go By Bike day had around 800 people, plus there were breakfasts on the North Shore, Waiheke, Mangere, Airport, Papakura and Manukau. Rodney came 2nd nationally in the Mayoral Challenge with over 2500 people cycling on SH1 through Orewa. There were also Mayoral Challenges in Franklin and Papakura.
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