With Ride the City as your guide, explore more of the city this May
Do you ever feel nervous about taking your bike into new neighborhoods? Are you afraid you might get stuck on a one-way street between an expressway on-ramp and a six-lane arterial? We know the feeling. That's why we're pleased to bring you the Ride the City Photo Scavenger Hunt as part of NYC Bike Month. Use Ride the City to find safe bike routes to parks and other exciting spots in all five boroughs throughout the month of May!
Plus, if you share photos of your bike with Ride the City, you can win some great prizes from our sponsors, Bicycle Habitat, Bespoke Bicycles, Adeline Adeline, and Bike Snob NYC.
Our sponsors and prizes
Grand prize - for the person (or team) who visits the most sites (or completes all ten sites the fastest) during Bike Month. A gift card from Bicycle Habitat in Manhattan (value $50.00).
1st prize - for the person (or team) who takes our favorite set of photos of Scavenger Hunt sites during Bike Month. A bike tune-up by Bespoke Bicycles in Brooklyn (value $50.00).
2nd prize - for the person (or team) who takes our favorite individual photo of a Scavenger Hunt site during Bike Month. A Nutcase union jack helmet, size L-XL, donated by Adeline Adeline in Manhattan.
3rd prize - for the person (or team) who takes the funniest/most entertaining photo. A copy of Bike Snob NYC's book, BIKE SNOB: Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling, donated by Bike Snob NYC and Chronicle Books.
Thank you so much to our fantastic sponsors!
Rules
1. There is no fee to enter -- all you need is a bike and a camera!
2. Visit as many of the ten scavenger hunt sites as you can during Bike Month (see the sidebar on the right for the list). You can use the website (www.ridethecity.com) or the Ride the City iPhone app to find directions to each site. As always, if you notice a problem with the directions, use the rate the route feature on the web application or use the report a problem feature on the iPhone app. If you need a refresher on reporting errors, check out our handy F.A.Q.
3. Take a picture of your bike at each scavenger hunt site. The only requirement is that your photos include a bicycle -- on its own or in the capable hands of yourself or a friend. Email your photos (or email a link to your photo stream on flickr, picasa, etc.) to photos@ridethecity.com. Please keep things honest -- we don't want pictures you took two summers ago.
4. You may participate on your own, or as part of a team. If you participate as a team, just let us know your team's name when you submit photos so we can group the photos we receive from multiple team members.
5. By submitting your photos, you give Ride the City permission to publish them on our website. We will, of course, attribute them to you, and you will retain ownership.
6. We will count entries based on the date we receive your email, not the date the photos were taken. You don't need to send all of your photos at once, but do send each photo as early as possible!
7. All entries must be received by midnight on May 31.
We had a blast in April; you'll have a blast this May
In April, the Ride the City crew (along with some friends and family) visited all ten sites, plus some others that didn't quite make the cut. We had an awesome time visiting places we'd never been before, as well as some old favorites. Here are some of our photos.
