Portland Metro Bike Month Challenge FAQs

The 2026 Portland Metro Bike Month Challenge is the greater Portland area’s challenge to help make Oregon a better place to live, work, and play. We are encouraging residents to use a bike for more trips during May for the chance to win prizes and compete against other teams.

The 2026 Portland Metro Bike Month Challenge will start on May 1 and end on May 30, to celebrate National Bike Month. Established in 1956, National Bike Month is a chance to showcase the many benefits of bicycling — and encourage more folks to try biking.

If you are not already a Get There user – registration is quick and easy. You can sign up for your free account and join the Portland Metro Region network using this link.

To find the Challenge, click the Challenges button on your Get There Connect home page. You can find the challenge under Available or below that under Coming Soon.

Create a team:
Visit the Challenge page and click the Create a Team button. A unique link will be provided for you to invite others to your team. Your team can be just you! For tips on being a team captain, download our Employer and Team Captain Toolkit. 

Invite others to your team:

You can invite people to join your team using a unique invitation link, follow these steps:

  1. Click into the Portland Metro Bike Month Challenge from your Challenges page.
  2. Select the leaderboard tab and click your team name.
  3. On your team’s page, click the leaderboard tab for your team.
  4. Select Invite Users at the bottom of the page to access and copy your team’s unique url.

Join a team:

Log in to Get There Connect and visit the Portland Metro Bike Month Challenge page. Select Join Team and search for the team you would like to join. Click the Join Team button on the landing page for the team.

Anyone who is 18 years of age or older and lives or works in Oregon is eligible to participate and win.

  • To qualify for weekly prizes you must log 2 bike trips, which may be a round trip.
  • To qualify for the monthly grand prize, you must log 2 bike trips every full week in May from May 5 to May 31.

Any trip that requires travel from one location to a second location using a manual bike or e-bike counts as a trip. Trips can include travel for any purpose (work or personal) during the Challenge. Trips can be logged for the challenge (not just weekdays).

Primary contacts for sponsors of the Get There Challenge or Get There Commute Challenge and ODOT Challenge staff and its contractors are not eligible to win prizes.

We have some exciting prizes you can win this year! All eligible participants will be entered into a raffle to win the following prizes.
Weekly prizes include:

  • $50 River City Cycles gift cards
  • Sunlite WheelGlow wheel fun lights (set of two)
  • Po Campo Kinga Handlebar bag
  • Heart Throb rear tail light
  • Abus Ultra Mini LS U-Lock + Cobra Cable

Monthly grand prizes:

  1. Cleverhood Rain Cape
  2. Faro Smart Helmet
  3. Ortlieb Sport-Roller pannier

If you are an employer, HR staff, sustainability manager or someone who wants to encourage your fellow employees to bike, we have a Employer and Team Captain Toolkit to help you to promote the Portland Metro Bike Month Challenge at your workplace. You can also download the file for the 2026 Bike Month flyer below.

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Please contact our team at [email protected].