RoadBikeRides.com race to the Yellow Jersey
THE RACE TO THE YELLOW JERSEY $10,000 CASH PRIZE
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO PUT $10,000 IN YOUR POCKET?
We are testing the Beta version of RoadBikeRides.com and would like to invite the Ride-Strong.com readers to check out the site and then comment on this post letting us know what you think. There are still a few things that we are tweaking, so if you see a bug let us know. Go ahead and submit your favorite road bike ride to the site.
As one of the ways to promote RoadBikeRides.com and get content, RoadBikeRides.com is having a contest to launch the site. There are going to be some pretty cool prizes to those that finish 1st thru 10th place. The prizes will be as follows:
- 1st place - $10,000 cash
- 2nd place - Brand new top end carbon fiber road bike - Retail Value of approximately $5,400
- 3rd place - Zipp 404 clincher wheel set - Retail Value of approximately $2,100
- 4th thru 10th place - Garmin Edge 305 - Retail Value of approximately $379.15
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Posted on: March 25th, 2008 By: Tyler Ford In: Road Bike Rides
March 25th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Nice writing style. I will come back to read more posts from you.
Susan Kishner
March 25th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Would love to put $10,000 in my pocket
March 25th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Posted a little training ride through Pt. Defiance Park.
http://www.roadbikerides.com/maps/?go=Ride.Ride&r=130
March 25th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
I like the new Beta version.
March 25th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Would love to stimulate the economy with the cycling related puchase`s I would be maikig!
March 26th, 2008 at 5:21 am
How can you guys afford to always offer such sweet prize packages?! I hope I win something!
Also, the site looks great. Keep the good stuff comin’.
March 26th, 2008 at 5:21 am
The site is looking good. I can’t wait until spring truly comes up here so I can get out and ride.
Doug
Canton, NY
March 26th, 2008 at 7:08 am
Spring is here! Time to hit the road even more- Love the site, and what a great prize package. I got my eye on the Orca! Of course with first prize, I could get an orca and some other toys!
The weather here in the midwest has been cooperative, so getting out 3-4 days a week has been pretty easy.
March 26th, 2008 at 7:21 am
BUG REPORT
When I registered on the email that was sent, the Welcome email, the return address is using the IP address webmaster@72.47.206.106. Also it would be nice to have a link to the site in the welcome message along with a recap of the username so the user can keep it for their records in case they forget it 3 months down the road.
I have GPX files I want to upload, I might be missing how to do this on the Ride.Submit page, I click the browse button find it on my system and select it. The path to the file is in the upload field, but I don’t see an upload button to actually transfer the file up. The only button to initiate any action is the Start Drawing and it is segmented on the right and appears to go with Option Two. So it’s missing an upload button.
In the drawing section, Ride.Step1B, it would be nice to default to the location in my profile and not Tucson.
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION:
17″ MacBook Pro
4 GB RAM
Firefox 2.0.12
OS X 10.4.11
March 26th, 2008 at 9:34 am
thanks for the thorough bug report, we’re working on it!
Larry, RoadBikeRides development team
March 26th, 2008 at 7:27 am
The GPX import bug might be a Mac Firefox bug, using Safari on the Mac I was able to upload a GPX file and have it map and submit just fine. So the auto upload doesn’t seem to fire off on my Mac under Firefox.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Clicking the My Account on this page -> http://www.roadbikerides.com/contest.php?do=rules does not take me to my account. It leaves me on the Rules page. I expected to go to my account page. It appears that the My Account link on any page is set to the page the user is on. Like I said I expected to get to the Control Panel to edit my Profile when clicking the My Account link.
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION:
Safari 3.1 (Mac OSX 10.4.11)
March 26th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Great site. One thing I’d like to see, (to get me away from mapmyride.com) would be the ability to embed routes on my blog/website. Especially if it included elevation info with it.
Oh… and I hope I win something, all the prizes look great.
March 26th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Your site is coming along. I could spend more time than available browsing through the links in the various categories.
As far as training rides. I do not work at any real training. Some friends of mine and I have pulled together a bunch of guys and gals in the upper years of life to begin riding. It is great social time and the bike tours we have attended have given us more experiences to talk about.
March 26th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
I like the route creating utility. It works much better than Veloroutes. Thanks for a great site.
March 27th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I like it. Easy on the eyes, easy to navigate around.
Thanks for your hard work, keep it up.
Drew
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:55 am
I’m lost regarding mapping and graphing elevation (exp. the latter). Where is the program to do this on a non-mac PC?
Thanks.
Keith