National Bike Challenge Might Be Toast

[Judd]

The National Bike Challenge has fallen on hard times. Apparently one of the major sponsors has dropped out for 2017. (I hope it’s not Cottonelle… I really want to build my dream TP fort). The NBC has established a crowd source fundraising site to raise $22,000 or the challenge likely won’t happen. Fundraising isn’t going too well so far, only 35 donors in 14 days with a total of $1,730 raised.

I donated $100 because the National Bike Challenge was one of the motivating factors for me to ride more and ride more often this year. I hope that other Washington Area All Stars will join me in making sure that the National Bike Challenge continues in 2017.

The donation page is located here:
https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/build-a-better-national-bike-challenge

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[cvcalhoun]

They are saying they will still be around, but will allow syncing only from Strava. Of course, I don’t know whether their statement that will be around is assuming the success of their fund-raiser.

[Kitty]

OH NO!!! I love the NBC! It’s my favorite part of the summer. Thanks for linking this Judd! I’ll see if I can contribute something. As the #1 team, hopefully the Washington Area All-Stars will be able to help.

[ewilliams0305]

It’s a Gainesville conspiracy!

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[Kitty]

Well with the holidays over I actually remembered to donate to this, however, it doesn’t look like its gotten far. The FB page seems to have devolved into a freak-out about Strava, which I can somewhat understand. (Strava can be intimidating, especially if you are accustomed to just manually uploading each day, as I was prior to 2016).

I hope they can get what they need. I can’t imagine its cheap to host a site that big, and actually re-do it so its not buggy.

[LeprosyStudyGroup]

some of us have joined their strava beta testing group already
https://www.strava.com/clubs/245558/discussion

but now they need more people on their beta website to provide user feedback and help them debug:
https://beta.nationalbikechallenge.org

[Emm]

@LeprosyStudyGroup 153514 wrote:

some of us have joined their strava beta testing group already
https://www.strava.com/clubs/245558/discussion

but now they need more people on their beta website to provide user feedback and help them debug:
https://beta.nationalbikechallenge.org

Thanks for the reminder! I joined both, and made a small donation. I hope they’re able to get it functional by summer!

They raised their fundraising goal to $60K though, and have less than $3K raised, which is concerning.

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