Shasta Bike Month and Challenge

10/15/2026

Congratulations to everyone on another fun Cycle September!🚴Check out this post and/or your email to see if you're one of our prize winners!

We want to share some high-level stats with you so you can see just how impressive Cycle September 2026 participation was:

✅ 79 workplaces (last year we had 63)
✅548 riders (last year we had 482)
✅67,568 miles ridden
✅4,717 bike trips

Great job everyone!👏

09/24/2026

Another fun 'Bike About' ride during Cycle September! This group showed up to take a spin on the Downtown Loop Trail, connecting downtown Redding to the Sacramento River Trail, Sundial Bridge,and many destinations in between. If you want to be notified of future beginner-friendly Bike Abouts, please join the e-mail list here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/QebuAqg/BikeAboutShasta

09/21/2026

Celebrate World Car Free Day with a Coffee on Love to Ride!
How to Participate:
1. Ride your bike on Tuesday, September 22.
2. Take a photo during your journey.
3. Share it in the Love to Ride social area with .
4. Enjoy a coffee on Love to Ride! They will send your voucher on Wednesday, September 23.
Let's move and enjoy clean air and free coffee together!

09/18/2026

Earn points and win prizes! 🚴🏆

The local Cycle September prizes include weekly prize winners and a workplace prize! Every week, you could win a $25 gift card from one of the featured Shasta local businesses (Chain Gang Bike Shop, Shop Around the Corner Books, and Old Shasta Coffee Company).

Workplaces with the most points in each category will go into a random drawing to win the workplace prize! Every point you earn helps your workplace team!

Make sure to check the email connected to your Love to Ride account regularly - that’s where we’ll let you know if you’ve won!

Ride on!🚴💨

09/16/2026

These riders enjoyed a relaxing pedal through the neighborhood streets of beautiful City of Shasta Lake yesterday evening!

Join in on the next Bike About Shasta Ride on Tuesday, September 22 at 6pm. Meet at the Shasta Bike Depot for a 5-mile beginner-friendly ride on the Downtown Loop trail. Sign-ups at shastabikechallenge.org.

09/10/2026

Mark your calendars for the Bike About Shasta Rides during Cycle September!
Bike Abouts are beginner-friendly rides to learn how to explore your neighborhood and community by bike. Whether you want to do a quick errand by bike, ride to school or work, or just get out to enjoy nature, these rides are for you! The rides in this series will feature safety tips for riding in traffic, allow you to experience the comfort of riding in a group, and familiarize you with routes that may be different from motor vehicle routes.
Please sign up if you plan to attend one or both rides at ShastaBikeChallenge.org

Tour of City of Shasta Lake- This ride is a family-friendly, casual pace ride – a fun way to be outside, riding with other families and learning destinations to bike to such as schools, parks, and main street destinations. The route will take you on neighborhood streets passing 3 schools, the skate park, city offices, and various other destinations.
📅Tues. Sep. 14 @ 6pm
📍Meet at Central Valley High School
🛣️ Distance: 3 miles
🚲 Bring water, helmet, and a bike in good working order.

Downtown Loop Ride- This ride will take you from downtown to the Sacramento River Trail, over the Sundial Bridge to the City of Redding’s newly FULLY completed path at the Civic Center connecting to the ‘two-way cycle track’ – a bikeway separated from motor vehicles on the roadway starting on Butte St. Learn how to get in and out of downtown Redding to work, errands, or for recreation and community events like the Rodeo and Garden of Lights, or to access the world-renowned Sacramento River Trail system.
📅Tues. Sep. 22 @ 6pm
📍Meet at the Shasta Bike Depot
🛣️ Distance: 5 miles
🚲 Bring water, helmet, and a bike in good working order.

09/04/2026

During Cycle September, every mile you rate earns you points and prize drawing entries!
Rate your route by painting your route with your finger, coloring each part by how it felt — comfortable, stressful, or enjoyable! Add a comment if there's something specific worth flagging — a rough patch of road, a stretch that felt unsafe, a part you love riding. You can earn:
50 points for your first rated mile
5 points for every mile after that
Your anonymous feedback is combined with everyone else’s on a map to show where biking feels good, and where it feels stressful. The more streets and routes people rate, the clearer it becomes where it feels more comfortable to ride and where improvements are needed in Shasta County!

09/03/2026

Sign up to volunteer a couple hours of your time for the 19th Annual Bike & Pedestrian Count on September 15–17!
The data you gather is very valuable and essential in securing funding for better bike ways in Shasta County.
The focus is to count annually the third full week of September (15, 16, 17th), however, if you are not available to count that week due to vacation, poor air quality, or an unforeseeable conflict, you can still sign up and count the following week, Sept 22, 23, or 24. Signing up means you'll count one intersection on one day for a couple hours (7-8:30am or 4-6pm).
To find more details and to sign up, visit https://healthyshasta.org/

09/02/2026

There are many ways to earn points this Cycle September! You can earn points for each mile and day you ride. Use the "Encouraged by:" feature on your Love to Ride profile to earn points for encouraging a fellow rider (extra points if you encourage a rider who is new to riding)! Rate your routes on the app for consist, easy ways to win points. The first mile you rate you get a whopping 50 points! Every mile after that, you can rack up 5 points. That adds up fast! Have fun, earn points, and win prizes this Cycle September.

08/26/2026

Join Cycle September!! 🌞

Sign up for this FREE challenge today to join the fun, get active, and win prizes! Visit the Shasta Bike Challenge homepage to sign up for the challenge!

https://healthyshasta.org/bikechallenge/

On Instagram, check out the linktree in our bio!

Ride solo, rally your workplace to ride, or ride with a group of classmates or friends. Whether you ride every day or haven't been on a bike in years, Cycle September is for you! 🚲💨

The Shasta Bike Challenge is a collaborative effort of the bicycling community to engage new, old, and current cyclist to ride as much as they can whether it is for transportation or just for fun! This year’s 2019 Challenge is from May 1st to 31st. All participants are entered into a free drawing ...