So Friday is Bike to Work Day.  And we’re giving away Commuter Bikes with the help of local Bike Shops.

The only thing we ask is that people submit an essay to be eligible to win a bike.

So far, we’ve received around 30 essays.  And they’re great!

They are all up on our website for your viewing pleasure: Bike to Work Day Essays

We will announce the winners at our Bike to Work Day Rally on May 16th at 8am at City Hall.

This Friday at 8am is the Bike to Work Day Rally at Ann Arbor City Hall (100 N Fifth Ave). There will be rides departing from bike shops and other locations to City Hall.

In addition to much food and fun, WE WILL BE GIVING AWAY COMMUTER BIKES AT THIS EVENT! But you must submit at essay to be entered into the drawing!

To submit and essay and learn more about the Bike to Work Day Rally, please go here: Bike to Work Day Rally.

Here are some more winners of Curb Your Car Month Prize Drawings:

Bike to Work Friday Winner (won a $25 gift card to Whole Foods): James Welch, Arbor Research Collaborative for Health Employee

Monday go!pass drawing winners: We have the numbers and the places they work, but we don’t know the names yet. The go!pass numbers drawn were 4117 (Brown Jug Employee) and 4350 (Vinology Employee).

You can win, too! Check out all of the Weekly Prize Drawings here: Weekly Curb Your Car Month Prize Drawings.

Cedric Richner is a Curb Your Car Month Ambassador. You can read more about him (and other Ambassadors) by clicking here.

He’s been writing a journal of sorts to some of his friends detailing his experiences participating in the Commuter Challenge and being an Ambassador. He recently sent this hilarious top ten list. Please read it with a sense of humor:

The Top Ten Reasons I Decided to be an Ambassador for the Commuter Challenge

10) I learned that it turns out that in the competition to be the country’s fattest state, it is good to be like number 49 or 50… not number 1.

9) Biking to work will give me a reason to wear spandex- legitimately, instead of holed up in my basement rec. room after the family has gone to sleep as usual.

8. I can finally participate in all of the great camp songs the bus drivers on the AATA lead riders in every morning.

7) Walking to work allows me the opportunity to be openly disdainful, and morally superior to everyone driving in their gas guzzling behemoths.

6) Did I mention the spandex?

5) $4.00 a gallon.

4) My mother’s voice in my head: “Do something constructive for once with your life will you!”

3) To keep Nancy Shore, the Challenge’s director, from getting canned.

2) Walking to the refrigerator for a Bud and a chicken pot pie does not constitute a cardiovascular workout.

1) We’re in tree town for God’s sake… you can’t drive