Bike Anchorage is excited to announce our Summer Bike Challenge is here! We're trying something new this year by using the National Bike Challenge website to sign-up and track teams. This site has a much easier way to track your miles through different phone apps, so sign up today and get riding!

Here's what you need to do:

1. Sign up and create a profile for the National Bike Challenge
2. Sign up to do our "Anchorage Summer Commuter Challenge" 
3. You can also create a team with your office, or competitive group of friends;)
4. Start riding!

At our recent Bike to Work Day Celebration, we featured a model for a new bike awareness totem that we will purchase with the help of an Anchorage Park Foundation Park Challenge Grant. This totem will include a real-time counter of all those traveling by bike.

But we’re not there yet! We need your help to raise $2016 by May 31st, to make this project a reality and permanently install the totem!

Donate today to make the bike awareness totem a reality>>

Why is counting cyclists important? The data from this bike awareness totem will:

• Inform the municipality about the number of cyclists on our trails, data which will influence policies like Vision Zero and trail improvements.
• Help raise public awareness through a real-time count of cyclists on the trail and enable the creation of graphics and maps to educate others.

Basically, the more information we have about how many people are biking in Anchorage, the better equipped we are to influence decision makers and the public to make Anchorage a more bike friendly city. And that’s really what we’re all about.

Will you help us raise $2016 and donate today? Click here to contribute >>

Thank you so much for your support! It all adds up to making Anchorage a safe and practical place to go by bike.

Bike Anchorage is excited to support Anchorage's May 18th Bike to Work Day with some delicious incentives to get on your bike and commute. This year, we are happy to share that over 50--yes, 50!--businesses and organizations are stepping up this year to host morning treat stations to aid everyone on our morning commutes! 

Also, we'll have a party at 4:30pm at the Westchester Lagoon to celebrate a successful day!

..or at least it feels like Summer! Get out there and ride!

Our Fat Bike Expo Raffle was a big fat success! Thanks to everyone who supported Bike Anchorage through this awesome raffle. The sponsors pulled together some amazing prizes and it was a lot of fun. Thanks to 9:ZERO:7 Bikes, Fatback Bikes, Surly Bikes, Revelate Designs, Becker Sewing and Design, Bar Mitts, Vee Rubber, Wolf Tooth Components, LLC, ColdAvenger Face Masks, Darn Tough Vermont Socks, PenAir, Westmark Anchorage Hotel, BarYak LLC, Trailside Discovery Camp, Iditarod Historic Trail Alliance, and a chandelier made from a fat bike rim donated by the artist Keri Gronewald.

If you were not present at the drawing, you can pick up your prizes at Trek Store Anchorage, located at 530 E. Benson Blvd., next to Modern Dwellers, anytime during the hours they are open.

Please be prepared to present your ticket stub, or an ID matching your name to the winning ticket. If you have further questions or comments about the raffle please contact Wes Hoskins at wes.hoskins@gmail.com.

Without further ado, here are our winners!