Heather Bikes

Kevin Dillard has been taking amazing photos of cyclists for years. After a big alleycat, it is always a joy to spend time on the computer looking through his photos on Demoncats.

Kevin recently released ‘Hip,’ a beautiful photography book showcasing some of his awesome photos.

Kevin was so nice to make Crihs and me special editions of the book with our photos on the cover as a prize for Monstertrack 2011.

This is truly one of the nicest prizes I have and is certainly a one of a kind treasure.

Thank you, Kevin!

I was working yesterday, riding on 37th street, when a car behind honked at me. I ignored it, he passed me and immediately swerved in front of me, trying to cut me off. I started to get mad, visions of his mirror being taken off by my u-lock popping into my head, when out of the corner of my eye I saw a policeman getting out of his car.

‘Did you see that?’ I asked him.
‘Yes,’ he said angrily, and pointed at the car to pull over.
I was astounded. A cop actually was there to see it and was going to do something about it!

I hung back and watched as the cop asked the driver of the livery cab why he had swerved in front of me and what he would have done if he had hit me. The driver said he didn’t even see me, which really got the cop mad. He took the driver’s license, and as I started to ride away, he told me he was going to write him a summons and was ‘gonna destroy this guy.’ I thanked him profusely and rode on.

Melissa Takes the 2MC on Youtube

I made this video of Melissa, an attorney who recently started biking to work in NYC. She is riding for Team Red in the Clif Bar 2 Mile Challenge.
Clif Bar is giving away $100,000 to 3 different charities. Visit the 2milechallenge to sign up and start logging the miles you bike!

Some Red Team members have been asking me how to challenge me and other people on the site.

This is what your dashboard looks like when you first sign in to the site:

If you want to challenge me, click on my photo next to ‘Team Leader Heatherbikes’

that will take you to this:

then click ‘Challenge’ and this will come up:

set the number of trips, the number of weeks, and the starting date, and click send challenge.  One more window will come up where you can verify the information and then send the challenge on!  You can have 5 challenges going at one time.

You can challenge other people in the same way.

From your dashboard, scroll down until you see this:

In the box titled 2-Milers, you can click on anyone’s photo to challenge them.  You do that in the same way shown above.

Challenges are a great way to keep yourself and other members of the site motivated!  It will also make the miles you ride worth more points, and help Trips for Kids win the challenge!  So reach out to your friends and to new people on the site and keep challenging others!!!

Over the next three days, I’ll be randomly checking the recently logged miles on the 2MC site and awarding people arm warmers!
Keep riding and logging!

Check back tomorrow for details on how you could win your own pair…

Hey 2-milers, let’s make a big push for people to join the red team and help Trips for Kids win an extra $25,000!

I will award you 10 points for each person you get to sign up for the red team. Once twenty new people are signed up, I will award the person who got the most people to sign up with a Rickshaw Messenger bag, SockGuy armwarmers and socks, a special edition 2MC pin and keychain, bandanas and stickers!

To make sure that the people you get qualify for points, please leave a comment here with your 2MC name and theirs.

Ride on!

Upload a photo of yourself wearing something RED, with your bike

to

TWITTER – mention @2mcred and your 2MC user name

or

FLICKR – tag with 2MCRed10points and post your 2MC user name

or

SOMEWHERE ELSE – post a comment here with a link to the photo and post your 2MC user name

The first 5 people to post will earn 10 points!

I want to thank team members that have been diligently logging their miles onto the 2MC Site for Trips for Kids.
On August 15th, I will award prizes to the top three members of Team Red.
Please continue to be honest in logging your miles and remember that miles ridden for work or training don’t count for the challenge.
Also remember that it’s trips, not miles that count towards earning points for the 2MC and that a great way to earn more points is by getting your friends involved!
Send out some emails to your friends, ride over to their house, get them to join Team Red and then challenge them on the site to replace their car trips with bike trips. You’ll both be happier, doing something great for the earth, and earning points on the site!

On August 15th, the team member with the most points will get
A team colored Rickshaw messenger bag
A pair of SockGuy team colored socks
A pair of SockGuy team colored arm warmers
A team colored bandana

the team member with the second most points will get
A team colored Rickshaw messenger bag
His or her choice of
A pair of SockGuy team colored socks
OR A pair of SockGuy team colored arm warmers
A team colored bandana

the team member with the third most points will get
His or her choice of
A pair of SockGuy team colored socks
OR A pair of SockGuy team colored arm warmers
A team colored bandana

Continue riding and logging those miles!!!

We have two winners for the 4th of July Contest.
I asked people to submit photos showing where their bicycles took them over the 4th of July holiday. We have two great winners!

Thanks to fiveforefun for your beautiful fireworks photo!

and to JackTB for sharing this photo of your teammates with us!

Please leave a comment on this post with your 2MC Red user name so I can get started on prize fulfillment, and let me know if you’d like arm warmers or socks!
Thanks for the photos!