Second Chance Contest

This contest is only for people currently registered for my email newsletter. The contest email will be going out approximately 5-6 hours after this post is scheduled to deploy, so you might be able to sneak onto the list.

The prize: as last time, the prize will be a custom rear rack for your bicycle. It will be made from 4130 chromoly (3/8″ tubing) and will be powdercoated in your choice of color.

How to enter: when you receive the email newsletter on June 7th, share the newsletter with your friends by using the links for tweeting about it, liking it on Facebook, or by forwarding it using the Forward to a Friend button in the email. For each instance, you will be entered into the contest, up to a maximum of three entries.

The drawing: approximately one week after the newsletter goes out, I will tally up all the data from the report about how the email was shared. I will put all that information into a spreadsheet, just like last time, and then ask my wife (who is unfailingly honest) to pick a number from 1 to number of rows in the spreadsheet. Whomever is on that row will win the prize. The winner will be contacted by email. Additionally, that winner will also be announced via the July newsletter.

Good luck!

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!