The Aotearoa Bike Challenge

Celebrate bikes and win prizes this February!

What's the Aotearoa Bike Challenge all about?

Promoting bike riding

Let's shout about the benefits

Winning prizes

Like new bikes and a holiday

Fun, friendly competition

For individuals and workplaces

Improving infrastructure

By contributing to bike data

Helping more people to ride

More people on bikes = a cleaner, greener NZ

 Here's how it works

🚲 Ride anywhere, anytime during February

🪵 Log your ride here or connect your favourite cycling app (Strava or MapMyRide)

🎁 Your bike rides earn points and the more points you have the higher your chances of winning prizes

💚 Earn BIG points by encouraging others to take part

🏆 Workplaces compete against others in the local area to top the leaderboards

How can I take part?

You can take part in three ways:

1. As an individual - you'll enter the draw for prizes and compete with others on the individual leaderboards
2. With a workplace - your company will compete on the workplace leaderboards to earn the most points. You'll enter the draws for individual prizes and help your company win too. Learn more about taking part with a workplace
3. With a club/group - clubs aren't eligible for prizes but are a great way to keep track of how much riding you and your friends can do as part of the challenge

Individuals earn points through:

✅ Riding

✅ Encouraging others to ride - (learn more about encouraging)

Workplaces earn points through:

✅ Their staff! Your workplace points will be the sum of all points earned by every employee taking part at your company on Love to Ride

You don't have to be a bike commuter to take part - all types of rides count towards your team's score!

What can I win?

There are thousands of dollars worth of prizes up for grabs, from gift cards to a holiday! Some are awarded for riding and some are awarded for encouraging.

Check out the prizes

When you ride a bike in the Aotearoa Bike Challenge you’re not just riding towards prizes and leaderboard wins, you’re helping to make a difference. Every ride logged on the site or through an app contributes to anonymised bike data that town planners can use to make your area better for bikes. How cool is that?

And there’s more! During the Aotearoa Bike Challenge, if you help other people to get involved, you’re helping to make a positive impact on your local area, and bike riding in general. More people riding means more data and more power to create bigger change. Plus, we give away prizes to people that encourage others. It’s a win, win, win! 

Challenge wrap-up

The Aotearoa Bike Challenge finishes on February 29th. After that we give you 72 hours to log your remaining February rides. This is a good opportunity to check your profile and make sure everything looks good before results are finalised! Make sure it's all logged before 11:59pm on 3 March. After 3 March, the Love to Ride team will go into full audit mode and check all of the leaderboards and then announce the amazing local and national Aotearoa Bike Challenge winners!