Contest Winner

So the first bike rack was won by Sam Hulin of Minneapolis, Minnesota, as announced in this month’s email newsletter. Those of you that find it odd that a Minneapolis-ite would win it should note that over half of the people who registered for the contest were from Minnesota. I credit that to Minneapolis Bike Love, a local online community of cyclists, that’s one of the tightest I’ve seen. And they came in droves and registered in droves.

The traffic spike associate with the contest entry.

So, what I did was to download the entire mailing list, and I stripped out anyone who was outside the registration window. This left 106 people. I asked my wife (who is very honest and had not seen the list) to pick a number from 1 to 106. (She picked #32.) I then looked at the list, and determined the winner based on the row number in the spreadsheet. So congrats go to Sam!

So I announced the contest on Twitter and Facebook a few times, in addition to a short-duration, low-budget Facebook ad. I also mentioned it in a few Livejournal communities, a couple of sections of BikeForums.net (the Commuting and Touring sections), and on my personal blog.

In addition to Minnesota, common states were New York and Ohio. From overseas, I saw registrations from Canada, Iceland, and France. Pretty cool stuff!