Bike Month Battle is part of Bike Month 2025, presented by Independent Health!
Instructions for the contest are below, followed by reminders on how to be safe, and then dozens of activities to hop in on yourself or with your family and friends throughout the month.
After week one’s battle is complete, we’ll post results, stats, and leaders. Check out the full schedule down this page.
Team leaders, be sure to encourage all participating employees to get their mileage in either immediately after their activity, or in total by 10AM each Monday.
LOG YOUR MILES HERE
We suggest using Strava, a free mobile app, to track your mileage, but if you have another application you prefer, go right ahead. You can turn it on when you begin a walk, bike ride, or transit ride. Just remember to turn it off when you’re done so you stay accurate.
In order to make your submissions official, you must use THIS GOOGLE FORM before Monday each morning at 10:00AM. We’re using the honor system here, folks. We trust you!
(Note: some organizations have restricted access to Google Forms. If that is the case, please create your own internal Form that matches this, and download all entries and submit them by 10A on Mondays, or per the schedule below)
How can you rack up points?
POINTS SYSTEM:
KEEPING IT EVEN:
SCHEDULE:
MATCHUPS:
Staying Safe
A reminder that you are riding, walking, rolling, or taking transit at your own risk. Let’s keep that risk minimal!
Some things are obvious – look both ways, ride on the right, don’t trust that drivers see you. Others are a bit nuanced. In partnership with the Governors Traffic Safety Committee, we’ve created a series of videos you can check out to learn more.
All traffic safety videos we’ve ever made are listed here.
Here are some that we really love:
Ride your bike on the right, with Traffic
Drivers, Please Just Slow Down and then Make Your Turn When it’s Safe
Bike Lanes or Not, Cyclists Have a Right to the Road
Safely Using a Roundabout – We Could All Use a Reminder
This is a party across the region. Join the fun!
- Every Tuesday 5P-8P: OPEN SHOP at 98 Colvin
- Every Saturday 10A-2P: OPEN SHOP at 313 Broadway
Open Shop is an opportunity to use our bike stands, tools, spare parts, and guidance from our team to work on your own bike. Open Shop is FREE to all GObike members, and $10 for everyone else. Open shop is ongoing throughout the entire year.
Want free, unlimited access to Open Shops? Click here to become a GObike member today.
- Every Thursday 5P-8P: VOLUNTEER NIGHT at 98 Colvin
Put your own bike aside. On Thursdays, we invite everyone to 98 Colvin to work on kids bikes donated to us so that we can get them back out into the hands of those kids who need them most.
It’s a free party!! We’re growing on our tradition of kicking off bike month with a bash at our 313 Broadway store and headquarters, and all are invited to ride down for happy hour. We’ve got a brand new amplifier, so look out for the return of DJ Teddy’s zany playlists.
Thanks to Independent Health, Wardynski’s Meats, and Flying Bison Brewing for making the event happen!
Bike Breakfasts are free, casual events. Stop in for five minutes on your way to work, or 30!
Please, bring your own coffee mug, and meet some new cycling friends.
There’s plenty to discuss about our city and region, and the changes we’d like to see.
Bike breakfasts are the perfect place to grow this community over coffee, oatmeal, and music!
Thursday May 8 – In Partnership with Preservation Buffalo Niagara
and Independent Health
Trinity Church Courtyard (371 Delaware Ave)
730A-930A
Thursday May 15 – In Partnership with Bicycle Bottle Shop
and Independent Health
Bicycle Bottle Shop (230 Lexington Ave)
730A-930A
Thursday May 22 – In Partnership with Ciminelli Real Estate
and Independent Health
Fountain Plaza (50 Fountain Plaza)
730A-930A
Thursday May 29 – In Partnership with Lexington Coop
and Independent Health
Lexington Coop Elmwood (807 Elmwood Ave)
730A-930A
Thursday June 5 – In Partnership with Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus
and Independent Health
Innovation Center Pocket Park (Ellicott Street and North Oak Street)
730A-930A
First time riding to work? AWESOME. Welcome! Click here for a toolkit to participate as an individual or organization.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! If you’re willing to ride and act as a buffer for these cute little elementary school kids, block traffic at intersections and keep this little group moving, please fill out this form.
PARENTS: If your children go to Olmsted 64, Tapestry Charter, or Bennett Park Montessori, this event is for you, and it is lead by the parent associations at the schools! If your children go elsewhere, reach out to Daniel Clark, our Education Manager, for tips on forming your own bike bus to start your kids’ day off in the healthiest, most fun way – daniel@gobikebuffalo.org.
The racist terror attack on 5/14/22 was not just an attack on our African American neighbors, not just an attack on an East Side neighborhood. It was an attack on every Buffalonian, every Western New Yorker. There is no “them.” There is only “us.”
Let’s ride together to demonstrate that solidarity. What’s more? The East Side Bike Club rides are SO MUCH FUN! They move at a moderate pace, they tour the beautiful neighborhoods of the East Side and elsewhere in the city, and it’s always met with waves and cheers and plenty of bell-ringing. Every East Side Bike Club Saturday ride (same time and place all summer) is open to everyone who enjoys cycling and community. See you there!
Later in the afternoon, ESBC will open the city’s very first E-bike Library at their HQ on E Delavan Ave with a party!
Camp Coffee Rides happen every month, and here’s May’s!
These are rides that welcome everyone for free. Just bring some coffee/brewing apparatus, and some friends, or make new ones on the rides.
Rides are at a moderate to brisk pace and often head out to far ends of the city of Buffalo, or in this ride’s case, out to Williamsville. Join us!
Wheelies are dope, and for the kids, they’re the best way to ride city streets. We’re embracing wheelie culture by gathering kids on an off-road course in the East Side (Location TBD) where they’ll compete for endurance and skill challenges on the back wheel of their two-wheeled bike!
We’ll have two divisions, Ages 10-13, and Ages 14-17, and two brand new wheelie bikes will be given to the winner of each division.
Location, Registration, and Waiver for parent signature coming very soon.
Everyone is welcome to ride with East Side Bike Club! Join for a community of casual riders for rides around our city’s beautiful East Side. Plenty of use of the bells, songs, chants, waves and encouragement from neighbors along the way.
ESBC rides every Saturday. Check their social media for any potential cancellations. The MLK statue at MLK park is on the east side of Fillmore Ave.
Happy 10th Anniversary Reddy!!
It’s the 10th year of bikeshare in Western New York, and Reddy Bikeshare is giving back to bikeshare users with a special award during BIKE MONTH. Like every May, National Bike Month is filled with FREE BIKE BREAKFASTS, and people who complete Reddy’s Bike Month Challenge of logging 10 or more miles on the bikeshare system can earn another freebie–a $10 Amazon gift card, courtesy of Independent Health. At each Bike Breakfast, the Reddy Team is giving a gift card to the first 5 people who show up with the Bike Month Challenge completed. (Nothing special: just bring yourself & we’ll check your stats.) The first chance is at GObike’s Bike Month Blastoff, 5-7 PM, May 2 at 313 Broadway.
Touring Buffalo By Bike!
November Project Buffalo, together with GObike and Reddy Bikeshare, are hosting a free community workout themed around Bike Month, and then inviting guests to a pop-up bike breakfast afterwards. On Wednesday, May 21, the free-fitness organization will retool discarded bike tubes for a circuit of fun bodyweight exercises and cardio, and then serve pastries and brew High Gear Coffee from GObike for a pop-up bike breakfast. Workout starts 6:10 AM at Delaware Park’s Hoyt Lake, and bike breakfast follows between 7-8 AM. Biking to the workout is encouraged, and people who don’t have a bike can unlock a Reddy or Reddy+ Bike for and receive a credit or refund at the bike breakfast.
Remember the old Bike Breakfast hosts at Hostel Buffalo: Relive the magic Friday Mornings at Rick Cycle Shop
Hostel Buffalo was one of the most amazing spaces in downtown Buffalo. They welcomed diverse travelers from around the world to our city with open arms, and put them right on Main Street on the metro rail. They hosted Food Not Bombs who cooked food for unhoused people in the kitchen and distributed it a block away. It was home to BOX Gallery where local artists would exhibit their work with excellent parties (full of hundreds of bikes) at every premier.
The city of Buffalo owns the building, and the adjacent building behind the Hostel which was vacant for years and in disrepair. In order to repair the adjacent building out back, the city evicted Hostel Buffalo indefinitely. This is a sad state of affairs for one of our greatest cultural spots.
Rick Cycle Shop on Allen and Franklin will be hosting Bike Breakfasts 8A-10A every Friday in May in support of the Hostel. We hope to see you there!
Niagara Family Bike Weekend, May 31- June 1.
Join Teen Treks and Niagara River Greenway for a Family Bike Weekend in Niagara Falls! This one-night, two day bike trip is an introductory bike touring experience along car-free bike trails, safe for the whole family to enjoy. Ride 20 miles from Niagara Falls to Lake Ontario along the scenic Niagara Greenway Trail, tracing the rushing river all the way to the falls! We’ll top off an exciting day with an overnight camping experience along Lake Ontario, and bike back the following day. Learn the basics of bike touring with this guided Bike Weekend experience, and enjoy quality time as an entire family while making friends with other like-minded adventurous families in your community! During the Niagara Family Bike Weekend, families have the option of carrying their own gear or utilizing a sag-vehicle. Registration cost includes meals, snacks, campground fee, experienced bike tour guidance and bike repairs along the way. Rental tents are available. Register online for your Family Bike Weekend today! Don’t hesitate to reach out to us at biketrips@teentrek.com if you have any questions!
