GreenLightRide.com Primer
 

Here is some info from anyone interested in GreenLightRide.com:

from the orignal thread:
The site has been up for short time, so there are still lots of bugs to iron out . Basically you log your rides, then join a team and compete in a league against other teams. Hopefully some good motivation as cold weather approaches.

Feel free to start your own team , or follow the instructions below to join the main team:

1. Start a new account at http://Greenlightride.com
2. Send nmanhipot a private message requesting an invite (through the forum, until GLR has messaging up & running)
3. Log your mileage. For now it is suggested that you log all your mileage from September on only.

The first league starts Oct. 13th, and will continue through the end of November. New members are always welcome, every mile counts.

Note:
In the near future invites and team administrative tasks will handled by a few "captains", so once all the details have been arranged invite handling will be much faster.

I'm interested in joining, but after catching myself up with the original thread I am a little confused.

Why are there two teams and which should I join?

there are two teams because it was hoped that it would be easier if users could add themselves. This created some issues (sorry again for the suggestion guys), but they will soon be resolved. For right now join whichever team you wish, and keep an eye on either of these threads for any changes. Basically it needs to be decided which model works best(one captain or many captains), and then delete the other team, or have two competing teams potentially.

The site does have some big administrative issues, hence the two teams, but this will be fixed soon. Right now just join up and HAVE FUN!! The first competition as it stands now starts on Oct 9th. A lot of the teams seem to be coworkers from bicycle companies and dealers, so it would be a lot of fun to trounce these guys if we could.

The need a new web guy too, just went to post this mornings miles and there is not 9/30...his calender date drop down only goes to 29??!!

Just got caught up from the other thread, hey sorry about posting historic miles, but I figured depending on how this thing was going to work I didn't want us to get short changed on miles, and I figured just because we weren't a team yet why shouldn't we get credit. We rode them ;)

Hmm try scrolling down I had 30 and 31 as an option.

We should start a read-only sticky with a daily progress report on the team!

Michael

Yea, they must have noticed it, it was fixed 10 minutes after I posted it here.

I can't seem to leave either team. D:

So I guess I'm just waiting to see what happens.

Quick update. I received feedback from tech support who said they're working feverishly on the admin side of it. Depending on how all things shake out, we'll figure out how to manage the team. I like the idea of having an open administrator account with a password shared among a few trustworthy folks. Hopefully, we can get all of this worked out in the very near future.

In the meantime, I've sent out invites to those that have posted in the previous thread. For now, just PM me. I think that will be easier. Rock on, people!

bump, please read the updates

Some new admin rights have been added to GreenLight. Still not everything we need yet, but at least you can edit your rides and such. The team is growing, but we can still use more!

bump

Hey guys and gals! The "Anything Goes" league kicks-off tomorrow! Make sure you get out there and ride and remember to log your miles starting tomorrow. We've got a huge team in comparison with anybody else out there so I'm hoping to see 5-digit mileage for the team in the next seven weeks. You can only join one league at a time, so we're in the "Anything Goes" competition through the end of November.

Additionally, they've added more admin rights, so I was able to safely removing the duplicate rider entries for FredOak, amckimmey and Scottbot84! Thanks guys for signing up and participating. I'll keep you guys posted and will probably start a separate thread for the updates for Anything Goes.

great thanks for all the good work. I'll add some relevant updates to the primer shortly

It doesn't look like we're getting any credit for miles yet, any ideas?

Anything Goes:

Start Date: October 13th, 2008

i thought it was the 9th? ... i've been slackin', so maybe it's a good thing. :)

Oh that's cool as I didn't get as much this week-end as I wanted.

Schweet, starts this morning! Lets all crank out the miles!

I just got back from a three-day weekend camping trip. The contest is on as of today. I'll be getting back on the bike today, also.

Just got back from watching my brother run the Chicago Marathon (3:28 and he was disappointed lol). ready to get on the bike and rack up some miles!!

we have the largest team(s) on the site, and it seems we're crushing the competition (one guy).

is there a competing bike commuter forum we can go to, and start talking smack, ta get them to join up. :fight:

that's a joke btw

M

err... even better, get the subforums to join up. cyclocross, folding bike, long distance, mtb, recumbent, etc

a thought.

M

Not only do we have the largest team on the site, but whenever I put GreenLightRide into google (I always use google-toolbar for going to webpages) BikeForums is the first entry :D :bike: We are GreenLightRide :D

Can some one send me an invite to the bike commuters team?
I am Gmule on that site as well.