- About Bike to Wherever Day
- Photo Gallery: Bike to Wherever Day 2025
- Summer Bike Challenge (June-August)
- Free Stuff, Contests & Prize Drawings
- Tips: Getting Ready to Bike Commute
- Bike Mapper: Choose the Route Best for You
- Bike + Transit: Taking Your Bike on Board
- Bike Champion of the Year
- Rebates & Incentives for Biking
- Video Highlights from Bike to Wherever Day 2023
- Employers: Tips on Encouraging Bike Commuting
- Sponsors & Media Kit
About Bike to Wherever Day 2025
May is National Bike Month and Thursday, May 15, 2025, is Bike to Wherever Day. Start your day with fresh air and exercise! Enjoy meeting other cyclists and pick up free goodies at various Energizer Stations along your route.
Photo Gallery: Bike to Wherever Day 2025
Visit our 2025 photo gallery to see photos from Energizer Stations across Contra Costa. If you visited an Energizer Station in Contra Costa on Bike to Wherever Day, you might see yourself.
Summer Bike Challenge: Free Family-Friendly Fun
Wish Bike to Wherever Day was more than once a year? Join us for the Summer Bike Challenge happening across Contra Costa County June through August! It’s a great opportunity to explore your town, ride with friends and family, get some outdoor time, and stay active. There are weekly chances to win $20 gift cards and you’re entered in our iPad Grand Prize Drawing just by signing up.
Free Stuff, Contests & Prize Drawings
Bay Area Bike Challenge
The goal of the Bay Area Bike Challenge is for participating cyclists to collectively log 120,000 miles from May 1 to May 31. Every ride you log during Bay Area Bike to Wherever Days counts. There are twelve ways to win at different skill and ridership levels, some as easy as riding a bike.
Road Safety Quiz
Find out how well you know the rules of the road by taking our 2025 Road Safety Quiz. Everyone who completes the quiz will be entered in a drawing for one of ten $20 Starbucks gift cards. Winners will be notified on May 30.
Tips: Getting Ready to Bike Commute
Preparing to bike commute isn’t as difficult as you might think. Take a little time to get familiar with your bike, figure out how to carry your stuff, and find a good route or even a bike buddy.
Do the A-B-C Quick Check to make sure your bike is working properly and running smoothly. You can also read our Six Tips & Tricks to Get You Ready for Bike To Wherever Day!
Guaranteed Ride Home
If you live, work, or attend college in Contra Costa County, our free Guaranteed Ride Home (GRH) program will reimburse you for your ride home during emergencies on any day you bike to work. You’re even covered if your bike is stolen or breaks down and can’t be repaired at work or on the way home. Great for Bike to Wherever Day and bike commuting in general. Sign up now and you’re good to go.
Bike Mapper: Choose the Route Best for You
511 Contra Costa’s Bike Mapper lets you create a custom bike route by choosing from three hill tolerances and three types of routes: bike paths, bike lanes, or the most direct route. Find other bike maps and resources here.
Bike + Transit: Taking Your Bike on Board
If biking the distance between home and work seems intimidating, it’s not cheating to add a transit to your commute. Bikes are welcome on BART, area transit buses, trains, and the San Francisco Bay Ferry.
County Connection, Tri Delta Transit, WestCAT, AC Transit, San Francisco Bay Ferry, and Capitol Corridor’s bicycling pages provide instructions for biking and riding. You can also find tips for taking your bike on other Bay Area transit systems.
Taking Your Bike on BART
Although bikes are always allowed on BART, there are some rules to be aware of:
- Bikes are never allowed on crowded cars
- Bikes are not allowed in the first car
- Folded bikes are always allowed in all cars
- Bikes are allowed on elevators, stairs, and most escalators
To read the full list of rules, visit the Bikes on BART webpage.
Bike Champion of the Year 2025: Teresa Datar
Congratulations to Teresa Datar, Contra Costa County’s Bike Champion of the Year!
Teresa Datar’s nearly 70-mile round trip commute from Brentwood to Martinez starts with a six-mile bike ride to Antioch BART, a 35-minute BART ride, and another eight-mile bike ride from Pleasant Hill BART to her Contra Costa County office in Martinez. At the end of the day, she does it all again in reverse. “I love riding my bike. I hope to advocate more accessible public transportation and safe bike pathways for all level riders.”
Teresa says that once you get in the groove, being a cyclist can expand your social horizons. In 2018 she joined Delta Valley Velo (DV2), a cycling club in Brentwood, which she credits with finding community and bringing back the childhood joy of riding a bike. After joining DV2, she got a job in the Sports Basement bike shop in Walnut Creek where she learned how to fix and build bikes and even lead group rides. She’s since joined more clubs including Delta Peddlers, Contra Cycling Club, and Riders of Contra Costa. “The riders I’ve met have helped me grow as a cyclist and a person. I feel strong enough to use my bike as an alternative form of transportation because of the cyclists I’ve met who do it every single day. Being part of the cycling community has inspired me and given me the confidence to do things like ride my bike to work.”
Way to go, Teresa, you are an inspiration as well. Congratulations and thanks for representing the many dedicated cyclists who choose to bike to work, school, and throughout their communities every day.
Rebates and Incentives for Biking
511 Contra Costa offers a variety of incentives for biking more, especially for commuting by bike:
- Pledge to try biking to work and we’ll send you a $20 BikeLink card to help you Secure Your Cycle with a countywide network of electronic bike lockers.
- Buy a new e-bike and apply for an E-Bike Rebate of up to $300.
- Register to get a free Guaranteed Ride Home if you experience an emergency on a day you biked to work.
Video Highlights from Bike To Wherever Day 2023
Wondering what Bike To Wherever Day is like? Check out the video below.
Employers: Tips on Encouraging Bike Commuting
If you’re an employer and want to inspire more of your employees to commute by bike, check out our 2025 Bike to Wherever Day Employer Toolkit (coming soon!) We also have great strategies and employer resources for making your workplace bike-commute friendly year-round.
Sponsors & Media Kit
511 Contra Costa has supported cyclists and Energizer Station hosts throughout Contra Costa County since 2001 using Bay Area Air District funds and the Contra Costa Transportation Authority’s half-cent sales tax for transportation funds. Bike to Wherever Day 2025 is presented by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, 511.org, and Amazon.com.
To help you promote your involvement in Bike Month (aka Bike to Wherever Days) and the Bay Area’s Bike to Wherever Day on Thursday, May 15, we’ve put together a media kit with promotional copy and graphics.
