The most important post of the year

Posted: May 18, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | 3 Comments
Expedited Registration (important!)
Please do us a huge favor. Print this form and fill it out for each participant before coming to the event. Bring it to the registration table and we’ll check you in quickly.  Save yourself from having to wait in a long line on Saturday and help us keep everything going smoothly!
 
For registration, you can walk with your bike inside. However, we ask to please be respectful of the property (i.e. do not walk on the gym floor with cycling shoes).

What to Bring
Your bike, helmet, and a lock.  We advise everyone to practice bicycle safety, including obeying local traffic laws.  Helmets are strongly encouraged, but not required.
 
You may also want to bring money to spend on lunch, a snack, or a drink out in the neighborhood.

Registration
Registration begins at 11am.  We’ve increased the amount of time for participants to try to reach all twenty destinations at an enjoyable pace. We will register participants up until 2pm.
Pedal for Prizes is completely free and open to cyclists of all ages and skill levels.
You’ll sign a release form (again, print it, fill it out, and bring to the event if possible!) receive a map of twenty destinations and a punch card.  Cyclists are free to go on their way to as many destinations as they’d like in any order.  Stay at destinations as long as you’d like.
We reserve the right to request you bring your bicycle to the registration table.

T-Shirts and Backpacks
We will have Pedal for Prizes t-shirts for sale for $20/each.  Proceeds will be used for us to bring back Old Brooklyn Pedal for Prizes in 2018.  It’s money well spent if you enjoy the event and would like to see it continue in the future.
We will be giving away backpacks for you to take on the ride. Register and you get one free, courtesy of some great neighborhood businesses that support the event.

Weather
The event happens on Saturday regardless of the weather.  Right now, the forecast is calling for near perfect weather, but we all know that that can change! Prepare for the weather!
If you’d like to change clothes before or after the event, you can feel free to the locker rooms at Estabrook Rec. More on that below.

Parking
There’s limited parking at Estabrook Recreation Center, and it will fill up quickly.  We ask everyone to please respect the area of the parking lot that is taped off.  
Another option is that you can park on the street on W 50th, W 49th, etc. Shadyside Avenue connects to the Estabrook Rec campus. Same for W 56th, 57th, etc. We just ask you to please be respectful to our Old Brooklyn neighbors.
Everywhere else that seems privately owned, park at your own risk.

Bike Parking
We tentatively will have bike racks courtesy of Ohio City Bike Co-op, so there will be at least one place to lock up when you come in for the raffle.

Cheating
Pedal for Prizes is meant to be a fun event done by bicycle. We have no tolerance for people who use other means of transportation (i.e. motor vehicle) to travel to destinations.  Participants found to be using forms of transportation other than a bicycle will have their punch cards revoked and will be barred from participating in the raffle. Just don’t do it.
If you observe instances of cheating, please report it to us immediately.  Merchants and people staffing our destinations will be keeping an eye out for foul play as well.

Estabrook Recreation Facilities
This is the second year we’re hosting Pedal at Estabrook Recreation Center.  Participants are free to use the facilities.  There are locker rooms for you to change if you’d like after the ride.  There’s also an indoor swimming pool and playground and ball fields outside. So there’s a lot to do if you finish the ride early.

Destinations
This year’s event will have twenty destinations.  You won’t know the destinations until you register at Estabrook Rec.
We provide you a map and addresses of destinations at which you’ll have your card stamped.  Some participants have had success using GPS or riding in small groups in the past.
Destinations will stop punching cards at 2:45pm.  Return to Estabrook Rec by 3pm and exchange your punch card for raffle tickets.

Raffle
The raffle begins promptly at 3:30pm. We will be raffling approximately seven brand new bikes, as well as many other prizes.  In all, we should have about 50 prizes valued at a minimum of $20. We won’t have a final list until a day or two before the event, as we are receiving and packaging prizes up until the last minute.
Help us move the raffle along by returning punctually and dropping your tickets in the bins of the prizes you’d like to win.
Please remain patient during the raffle and help others be patient as well.  Your cooperation will help it go quickly and smoothly, which everyone would like.

50/50 Raffle
This is the second year we will be hosting a 50/50 raffle as a fundraiser for next year’s event. If you enjoy the event, please consider participating, as every dollar helps us host a first-class event next year. Thanks to the Old Brooklyn Collaborators for their help.

Snacks
The Old Brooklyn Families Group will be selling very reasonably priced food at Estabrook. Proceeds benefit them in their future programming efforts, so please support them as well.
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