The time is now. Are you ready to take on the 30-day Ride Challenge? This isn’t a juice cleanse. Nor is it some caveman devolution diet. This concept is simple; ride your bike - every day - for 30 days. Sounds easy, huh? For some, it might be. For others, it might force an upheaval of daily habits and routines. But if we focus, we can all conjure a little bit more time in the day to turn the cranks.
In partnership with Trailforks, Pinkbike Trek, Shimano and EVOC, Anthill Films are throwing down the gauntlet for the 30-day Ride Challenge. We know it will be hard work, so to give you an extra reason to get up 45 minutes earlier to ride, Trek and Shimano have teamed up to build the ultimate prize - the Return to Earth bike.
Yep, that’s a full custom Trek Slash with Shimano XTR. Enter the 30-day Ride Challenge and it can be yours, along with daily prizes from EVOC, Bontrager and Lazer.
How does it work?From July 1st to July 30th record your rides on the
Trailforks app. Record a ride every day for all 30 days to be entered to win the Trek Slash. If you don’t ride every day, no sweat, you’ll still be entered to win sick daily prizes on the days you do record a ride. Trailforks software will automatically generate your contest entry, and notify you with a badge; a 30-Day Challenge Badge, and 30 Daily Badges are up for grabs. Trailforks does the leg work and provides online leaderboards to see how you stack up, so you can focus on your rides. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy!
Contest Rules• All recorded rides must include at least one trail as mapped on Trailforks to count for the contest.
How to Enter?Sign into the Trailforks app and search for the 30 Day Ride Challenge in the "Badges & Contests" page. Or join the contest on the website
here. Once you’ve joined the contest, your daily rides will be automatically accounted for in the Ride Challenge, so all you have to do is keep riding. You can
record your rides using the Trailforks app or
connect your Strava to Trailforks. Let us handle the rest.
Get out there and shred.
You can earn daily badges even if you have missed previous badges. Earning any daily badges makes one eligible for the daily prizes.
Sign up here.
What’s at Stake?Grand prize: A 2019 Trek Slash with Shimano XTR drivetrain and brakes.
Daily prizes: Prize packs will consist of prizing from Pinkbike/Trailforks, Shimano, Trek, EVOC, and Anthill Films. Daily winners will receive a prize pack consisting of a custom Evoc Return to Earth Mission pack filled with: Lazer Impala MIPS helmet, Shimano Saint PD-M828 pedals, Bontrager Bat Cage water bottle holder made from reclaimed ocean plastics, Bontrager XR Elite Grips, Trailforks tee and socks, Return to Earth hat, tee and socks.
Click here for Terms & Conditions
Return To Earth is a captivating film about the power of taking out attention back by riding our bikes. Watch the trailer, and go ride your bike.
I might just add a dropper on the gravel bike in the meantime to keep doing some stupid shit.
Too bad because that paint job on that Slash is sexy as all get out. So dope!
I'll try and channel some of the enthusiasm though!
Would this trail be eligible?
Schlaferskopf DH on Trailforks
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Anyways final day, GOOD LUCK to all still in the running. I hope whoever bus it really enjoys the heck out of the bike. I know I would for sure...
There is some other tools we have that use the data that are only visible to trail association admins, like a heatmap of where people most often start rides, so they can plan where to put more trailhead/parking funding.
Edit: just found a response to my question in a lower thread. Thanks!
Also, it says ...
"• All recorded rides must include at least one trail as listed on Trailforks to count for the contest."
.. isn't this just the same thing as the first point?, the trail has to be on Trailforks.
Anyway, was just wondering what all their terminology meant, I have no intention of using any apps or entering, but it does kinda narrow down to those that can actually enter for the full 30 days of official riding ... maybe if one literally lives in Whistler, then boom .. !
Anyway, also, that paint job and look of that bike is awesome,.
Also, while they are trying soo hard to be "understanding here", but this statement is a very detached ...
"For others, it might force an upheaval of daily habits and routines. But if we focus, we can all conjure a little bit more time in the day to turn the cranks."
.. just seems so detached from reality .. yeah, let me just lock the kids in a cupboard every evening while I ride, or maybe we can skip off work just like in the movies, easy !!
The more I see this comp the more pissed im getting and I hate irrational behaviour like this, I am down-voting myself just to make me feel better now .. !!! and maybe I should not come to this page anymore ....... then I wont be so gosh-darn tooting triggered!!!
45mins of singletrack/uphil daily for a whole month in the middle of summer? Workout of your life
Send the link to the trail log and they will get it awarded for you.
Happened to me a couple days ago were the gps freaked out and my route was logged several 100ft away from the actual trail.
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This is a rad deal - cool thing you guys organized here.
PinkBike is failing to meet/live up to its contest. A this point this whole thing is a marketing scam.
www.pinkbike.com/news/daily-prize-winners-announced-from-the-return-to-earth-30-day-trailforks-ride-challenge.html
Can't get the Trailfork to take my ride even I upload and submit everything.
Or maybe the Trailfork thinks Windrock DH and Davil's is not for the mountain bike
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Whatever, I still will try to ride 30 days. I'm not a big fan of Trek anyway.
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Send it!
Also, would it be possible to add numbers to the leaderboards so we can accurately see where we’re placed? At the moment all I know is I’m somewhere about 5 pages back.
sorry to bother you with dumb stuff, but i screwed up! I sweaty fat fingered my phone screen when i was uploading yesterdays ride and selected to keep my ride private, and now I'm not showing a badge for day 16. Can you take a look a that and see if i'm eligible for the the badge please? I gotta keep me in the running for the bike if possible!
Thank you!
21 rides, 54min ride time, 13km
Ultimate in sandbagging .. but technically by the book. Well played.
www.trailforks.com/trails/snake-bite-hill
I think the Trailforks app is really great but I've never used it. Just wondering, could I even upload rides if I don't have a fancy cellphone? I do have a Suunto Ambit 2 watch that records my rides, but to get it logged in Trailforks would that require me to export it from the Suunto software and then manually import it in Trailforks?
I Just dont want to miss my chance at that sweet bike!!!!
“Performance History”)."
Does it work if the ride is recorded on a Garmin/Strava and automatically synced to your Trailforks?
Just a little bummed that riding a sanctioned trail would mean driving 50 minutes everyday (more than I do now so 30 hours of extra driving) or riding 20 miles on pavement for every ride (more to get to trails with shade stuff a month that will average highs near 100f).
Wonder if I can add those social trails in the city park to trailforks?
You must ride where trailforks has mapped trails that are recognized in the app.
Curious as I'll have my toddler in tow in the fattrailer so I'm limited to green/some blues/access roads...
Anybody had this problem? anybody can help?
A few of the rides I do include portions of trails on trail forks, but not start to finish out and back trails in order to loop, and to avoid some of the RIverhead mud this time of year!
I've sent a few emails that haven't been picked up yet, is it possible for you to have a look into my submissions as well please?
Is park included?
For the overall contest win, you need to join the contest AND ride everyday for 30 days, earning a badge each day. Then it's also a random draw among all the people who complete that challenge. Of course not everyone who completes the challenge can win the contest, that could be a lot of bikes! But your ods in the random draw are probably pretty good if you get all 30 days.
How does the system define a day: Is it 00:00 to 23:59 Pacific Time (UTC−07:00) - except for 1st July which doesn't start until 01:00? Or a different zone - perhaps local time of the recording device?
So to get a badge, the ride needs to be marked Public? Can it be marked Hide Map?
The start time of the ride is what's used.
Normally to meet a badges date criteria the date-time of when the ride took places is used, not the upload time. This is like you say 0:00 to 23:59 Pacific Time. I realise this is not ideal for people on the other side of the world, something we could maybe look to improve next time, or maybe something I can get sorted before July 1.
A ridelog must be public but it can have "hide map" selected.
Is it the most miles or if you ride everyday, you get thrown into a raffle?
How will the winner be decided when there will undoubtedly be hundreds or more than will achieve this goal?
Almost any contest is promoting something... that is kinda the point. In this case the new Anthill film. This is not the first contest using the Trailforks badge/contests system www.trailforks.com/contests/past
Of course Trailforks might see some increased usage as well, but we don't limit it to using the Trailforks app, one can connect their Strava. Which then benefits everyone in collecting more trail usage data for local trail association trail advocacy & planning. And to help power numerous Trailforks features, like trail popularity or suggestion popular routes.
I just realized my email attached to my profile was an old deleted one and have just corrected it. Is there a way to check to make sure I haven't missed a daily prize pack?
Wish I were riding hard and resting harder with GELATO AND PIZZA after the daily ride :_(
I had a ride at 6:28 PM from July 29th and forgot to post it until 12:20 AM July 30th, is this considered post marked? Additionally I only rode a sanctioned trail on the 29th around 7:00 PM. Thank you for your assistance!
I check my email every day to see if I've won a daily prize. Those socks are ????
Private ridelogs don't count towards badges and therefore this contest. We need to be able to do some verifying of the rides for those that complete the 30 days.
these are great to get some miles in when it is too wet to get into the forest proper. I hope they count
www.trailforks.com/help/view/88
Or connect a Strava account and record using Strava
www.trailforks.com/ridelog/stravaguide
Do bike shop employees, of bike shops that sell Trek qualify for entry.
Do employees working at bike shops that sell Trek, qualify for the contest?
www.trailforks.com/contests/view/5
My own story...quite by chance, I managed be higher up the board b/c the majority of my miles are "rail trail" which are totally legal according to the rules (~225 total miles and counting), but are only about half my total rides and they're ALL on a bike. Had to take time off the singletrack to rehab a bruised hip. In a few days things should be all good and I'll be back to the woods. The miles count will drop off, but I'm not doing it for that anyway. I just wanna ride (and win that sweet bike, of course).
Let me guess. That's all of you.
(Extreme sarcasm)
Get over it, it’s fair. And it’s a great idea!
Let me guess. That's all of you.
Imagine going into the public to complain and make an argument about something that in reality literally doesn't effect you at all.
I just bought a new bike that I love, but this is pretty exclusive to the snobs with parks off their patio. Mountain biking is already a terribly affluent sport and this is just a method to give a bike to someone already in the good ol' boys club.