Bike Events and Bike Month

TMBA Needs Your Events

TMBA is requesting your help! As you may know, May is Bike Month here in the Truckee Meadows. TMBA has a Bike Month Event Calendar, where folks can see all the events happening during the month. We’re asking for your help making sure our calendar is complete. 

Do you have an event or promotion you’d like us to include on the calendar? Please let us know! These can be recurring, or one-time events, special rider discounts you’re offering, or similar. The calendar is active year-round, so if your event is before May or after May, no worries, send it anyway. 

TMBA is also planning on having a few raffles at our events. If your shop has anything you’d like to donate for a raffle, we’ll highlight your shop and donations in our newsletters and give you a big shout-out at the event raffles.

Simply send us the details of your event and donations, and we’ll put it on the calendar and arrange to pick up any donations.

May is National Bike Month! Bike Month is all about highlighting the many benefits of riding a bike and encouraging more people to try biking. The best way to celebrate Bike Month is simply to get on a bike: ride to work, ride to the store or just ride and enjoy the scenery outside. Join us on the fun and learn more about how to celebrate Bike Month in Washoe County.

Visit the official Northern Nevada Public Health Bike Month Site by Clicking Here!

Sign up for the Commuter Challenge!

The Commuter Challenge provides a way to promote teamwork within your business, create a healthier workplace and get people excited about bicycling. Sign up here.

Why Participate in the Challenge?

  • Fun: This is a team-building experience that will help build camaraderie in the workplace and be able to compete against other businesses in their industry, their region and throughout the country.

  • Health: Riding makes your workplace healthier!

  • Economics: Employees can reduce car maintenance, fuel and parking expenses. Employers will benefit from reduced health care costs.

  • Environment: Bicycling reduces emissions and greenhouse gasses. Nearly 50 percent of all trips in metropolitan areas are three miles or less and 28 percent are one mile or less – distances easily covered by bicycle!

  • Promotion: The Challenge is a free and easy way to offer a local/statewide bike competition and participate in the national event. It provides data, healthy competition and a way to promote your organization or business.

  • Celebration: Joining the Challenge is a great way to kick off National Bike Month and build relationships within your own business, as well as with local, state, regional and national business communities.

How to Join the Commuter Challenge

  1. First, be sure to sign up.

  2. Visit the RTC Commute Challenge page or create a template for your commute

  3. Register your company by contacting the RTC Trip Reduction Specialist at 775-335-1920 or SMiklos@rtcwashoe.com. Following registration, we’ll provide you with instructions for customizing your organization’s area of the website.

Has my employer formed a Commuter Challenge Team?

Contact the RTC Trip Reduction Specialist at 775-335-1920 or SMiklos@rtcwashoe.com to find out if a team already exists or ask your employer

Curated Content

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Partner Events and Rides

Small Business and Community Organization Goodies

During Bike Month, various small businesses and community organizations are offering bike month participants some goodies. We’ll keep a running list below.

  • Hub Coffee Roasters: 1 free 8oz cup of coffee — coffee, not latte  — for any cyclist that comes in with a bike AND helmet to any of our locations (Riverside & Pine).

  • Swill Coffee and Wine: 1 free 8 oz drip coffee or 16 oz bottled water — for any cyclist that comes in with a bike AND helmet (use the bike rack to the left of the entrance)

  • Gear Hut: 10% off AND a Mesa Rim Day Pass if you ride your bike in on Fri, Sat, or Sun!

 

These discounts are always available.

If you’re a small business that would like to participate, drop-us a note at events@bikewashoe.org.

Bike Month Team

We couldn’t pull off this year’s Bike Month without the following team:

  • RTC
  • Northern Nevada Public Health (Previously Washoe County Health District)
  • Reno Bike Project
  • Safe Routes to Schools
  • Sheena Britschgi – Bike Month Calendar
  • Hailey Corthell – Bike Month Calendar
  • Camille Vernon – Poster Distribution
  • Mathew McAnearunder – Poster Distribution
  • Melissa Gilbert – Volunteer Appreciation
  • Kelsey McClutcheon-Fitzgerald – Graphics
  • Chris Gandolfo – Web Site (Solid Creative)
  • Tom Miller – Pedego Bike & Donation Management
  • Hannah Spendlove – Social Media (Competitive Cyclist)
  • Sarah Krings-Lien – Proclamations
  • Kira Stemer – Political Forum
  • Aeva Plaskon – Thursday Events & Bike Valet
  • Alara Plaskon – Thursday Events & Bike Valet
  • Morgan Trieger – Events
  • Manny Becerra – Bike Rack Installs, Presenter: Oddie Wells 
  • Sue-Ting Chene – Bike Month Calendar & Events
  • Ky Plaskon – Coordinator, Communication & Events 
     

To volunteer, write to info@BikeWashoe.org

 

Business and Community Organizations

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Bike Month Support

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