March Madness Starts in:
March is a great time to get out and ride your bike — temperatures in the 60-70s, blue skies, spring flowers and lots of wildlife spotting opportunities. The Davis Bike Club’s March Bicycle Madness event celebrates the return of longer days and spring weather and challenges you to ride as many miles as you can within the month! All proceeds raised will go to local bike charities to create an even better cycling community here in Davis. Last year, the Davis Bike Club’s March Madness raised over $1000 to support outreach activities delivered by the Bike Campaign! It would be fantastic to match or increase our donation this year, so we encourage cyclists of all abilities to get involved and challenge yourself to ride that extra mile this month
Participate in March Madness by choosing a mileage goal and challenge yourself to ride your bike more than you thought possible. Try to beat your own personal goal (big or small) or you can get competitive with other participants and see who can get the most miles. How you get your miles is up to you! It can be around Davis, running errands, a commute to work or further afield around the county or around the world. But most of all March Madness is about cycling for joy.
How Does March Madness Work?
Riders fill out an online application and pay a participation fee starting early in February. Riders set a mileage goal for the month of March (be brave, go big, you may surprise yourself!). Registration fee is $25.00 for adults and $11.00 for children. The minimum number of miles is 10 miles but even running short errands this can easily be achieved, and we encourage riders of all abilities and ages to join in the fun. There is no upper mileage limit – last year some of our riders exceeded 1000 miles! Prizes will be then awarded to our top riders.
Once you’ve set a goal participating cyclists then ride their bike as much as they can during the month of March and keep track of all their miles with the March Madness Mileage Tracker. This year we may also ask riders to upload their elevation gain data per ride (if possible) for a special prize and send in their best spring ride photos so we can all see your fabulous adventures when we present the awards.
Please remember…
- Mileage tracking is based on an honour system… we ask all participants to be as truthful as possible (eg. if you didn’t track with GPS), even the smallest miles add up over the month!
- Outdoor riding is encouraged as much as possible. But if you are indoor riding (eg. spin, bike trainers etc.) the total mileage for the month is limited to 1000 miles, and the speed is capped at 15 mph unless a smart trainer which tracks speed is used.
- To make sure all participants are covered by our insurance policy, we require our March Madness participants to be Davis Bike Club members. Learn about membership here.
- After you register, your name will be entered in the mileage tracker spreadsheet.
- Feel free to change your name to your favorite handle (If you had one at registration we will populate it) or add or correct your goal. Then add your mileage as you ride.
- Please update your mileage as soon as possible after your ride – within a day of your ride so your competitors have a fair chance to head out for an evening 20k if they need to catch up!
Get out and ride!
