OAKLAND — The Team Bike Challenge, a contest organized by The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) as part of Bike to Work Day/Month, encourages bicycle commuters to form teams—made up of their colleagues, friends, neighbors or local officials—to take on biking as a mode of transportation during the month of May. Participants earned points each time they biked. The top-placing teams overall and from each of the Bay Area counties, and a Bike Commuter of the Year from each county, were announced in June.
Published: July, 2007
Top Placing Teams by County
Webcor Builders Green Light - Alameda, We Can Do It! - Contra Costa, Redwood Retreads - Napa, Bakers Bike Deux - San Francisco, The Rolling Digmers - San Mateo, Solano Cycle Slugs - Solano, Wheels of Fortune -Sonoma.
Bike Commuters of the Year
Alameda - Lisa Lestishock: Lestishock averages 30 miles a day during her bike commute.
Contra Costa - Robert Haas: A regular bike commuter for 19 years. Five days a week, he pedals to and from BART on both ends of his commute from Moraga to El Cerrito.
Marin - Kerri Kazala: Kazala pedals over 60 miles from her home in Mill Valley to her job in Daly City.
Napa - Joel King: King pedals every day to his job at the county of Napa.
San Francisco - Marvin Johnson: Rain or shine, Marvin rides to work and back from his Glen Park neighborhood to his job in San Francisco.
San Mateo - Craig Horak: Horak is an avid bike commuter who pedals 50 miles a day, round-trip, from Burlingame to his job in Emeryville.
Santa Clara - Jack Miller: Miller can be found pedaling from Mountain View to his job in San Jose and back in all kinds of weather.
Solano - Scott Morrison: Morrison began bike-commuting a few days a week last year, but he has made it a habit and has logged over 2,500 commute miles, losing 80 pounds over the last year.
Sonoma - Christine Byrne: Byrne pedals to high school, her job, her friends’ houses and for errands. She has started a program at her high school called eCO2mmute Month to encourage her cohorts to choose alternative means of getting to school other than by car.
Source: Metropolitan Transportation Commission
