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2009 Team Bike Challenge Winners Announced

June 5, 2009 ... The results for the month-long Team Bike Challenge are in, with Team Tour de Turtle from Marmot Mountain in Sonoma County declared the winner among all nine Bay Area counties. The five members together earned 594 points and rode a total of 982 miles in May. Second place was a tie between Team BORAT of Santa Clara and Team Full Tilt from Marin. Third place went to OUTSPOKIN, another Marmot Mountain team from Sonoma.

Now in its fourth year, Team Bike Challenge brings together groups of up to five cyclists who compete to ride their bikes for transportation as many days as possible in the month of May. Novices earn the most points (five per trip), as the competition is designed to encourage new bike commuters to ride together with more experienced cyclists for support and encouragement.

In a related event, the Company Bike Challenge returned for its second year, with companies vying to amass the most teams and points; winners were announced in three categories: large, medium and small companies.

Team Bike Challenge is an outgrowth of the Bay Area’s Bike to Work Day promotion, which MTC sponsors in conjunction with the Bay Area Bicycle Coalition and private sponsors. According to Andrew Casteel, executive director of the Bay Area Bicycle Coalition, the 521 teams in this year’s competition biked a total of 275,273 miles, offsetting 267,015 pounds of pollution from the air, burning 11,836,739 calories and saving $144,518 in gas money. Altogether, 121 companies participated in the competition this year. The teams from Cisco Systems biked an incredible 25,635 miles. At Marmot Mountain, an impressive 30 percent of the employees participated in the challenge. Members of the region's top-scoring team win the privilege of placing a bike rack in a public location of their choice. See complete Team Bike Challenge results and Company Bike Challenge results at the Bike to Work Day site. See photos and stories from Bike to Work Day 2009 at the 511 traveler information site.

2009 Team Bike Challenge Winners

Overall Top Regional Winners

1st - Team Tour De Turtle: 594 pts | 982 miles
2nd (tied) - Full Tilt: 593 pts | 1689 miles
2nd (tied) - BORAT: 593 pts | 1304 miles
3rd - OUTSPOKIN: 586 pts | 1569 miles

Alameda County

1st – “CGMM” – Cisco Green Mean M…: 515 pts | 1058 miles
2nd – Flying Rubber Chickens: 504 pts | 651 miles
3rd – Adler’s Enablers: 495 pts | 1248 miles

Contra Costa County

1st – PeopleSoft Pedal Pushers: 416 pts | 802 miles
2nd – Hui Paikikala : 354 pts | 835 miles
3rd – Team Kyocera: 343 pts | 378 miles

Marin County

1st – Full Tilt: 593 pts | 1689 miles
2nd – Tamiscal Firebirds: 572 pts | 667 miles
3rd – Team XYXXX: 521 pts | 728 mile

Napa County

1st – THE GLASSY WHEELED SHARPSCO…: 467 pts | 516 miles
2nd – OXBOW Friskies: 359 pts | 976 miles
3rd – The Rough Riders: 345 pts | 1355 miles

San Francisco County

1st – David Baker + Partners Team…: 425 pts | 1178 miles
2nd – Look Ma, No Hands!: 412 pts | 343 miles
3rd – GeoEx Varsity: 380 pts | 623 miles

San Mateo County

1st – BIOTECH - Bicyclists Intent…: 414 pts | 1942 miles
2nd – Greenbox: 314 pts | 1043 miles
3rd – velociraptors: 313 pts | 510 miles

Santa Clara County

1st – BORAT: 593 pts | 1304 miles
2nd – Bone on Bone: 498 pts | 1222 miles
3rd – Vander-Bikers: 478 pts | 1244 miles

Solano County

1st – Quadsafire: 520 pts | 490 miles
2nd – Old Cranks: 399 pts | 3501 miles
3rd – Team Budweiser: 229 pts | 1127 miles

Sonoma County

1st – Team Tour De Turtle: 594 pts | 982 miles
2nd – OUTSPOKIN: 586 pts | 1569 miles
3rd – Eco Leaders: 584 pts | 663 miles

2009 Company Bike Challenge Winners

Large Companies

1st – Cisco Systems: 7180 pts | 25635 miles
2nd – Apple Inc.: 6813 pts | 26350 miles
3rd – City of Richmond: 2277 pts | 5887 miles

Medium Companies

1st – Marmot Mountain LLC: 2462 pts | 5563 miles
2nd – California State Coastal Co…: 1045 pts | 2758 miles
3rd – Sun Light and Power: 855 pts | 1739 miles

Small Companies

1st – Van Meter WIlliams Pollack,...: 1108 pts | 1506 miles
2nd – WRA: 953 pts | 1677 miles
3rd – Sonoma County Agricultural …: 717 pts | 1457 miles