Teach Me How to Divvy: Video Contest Follows Million-Mile Marker

In just two and a half months, residents and visitors to the city have peddled more than 365,000 trips and have collectively ridden an estimated one million miles via the Divvy bike share system.

Now, Divvy representatives and city officials are looking to you.

As more people use bike sharing, Divvy wants riders to film and submit short, entertaining videos to help other users learn how to bike safely. 

The top YouTube and Vine video producers will receive Divvy membership for the next five years. Divvy will select 25 runners up, who will receive a Bern helmet, a Divvy T-shirt, and five 24-Hour Passes. 

Chicagoans can enter the contest with either a YouTube video—three minutes or shorter—or a Vine clip, submitted to Divvy. 

“This summer, Chicagoans and our visitors have shown a tremendous amount of participation and enthusiasm for bike sharing,” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in a news release. “In a very short time, Divvy has already changed the way people move around the city.”

With 240 stations on the ground to date—nine of which are here in Lincoln Park—Divvy staff plans to install another 60 in the next few weeks, ramping up to 300 stations and 3,000 bikes.

By next spring, there will be in 400 neighborhood locations with 4,000 bikes.

The nine Lincoln Park locations—the last intersection on the list is less than 1 block south of the neighborhood's North Avenue border—currently include:

• Wilton Avenue and Diversey Parkway — 19 bike docks.
• Racine and Fullerton avenues —19 bike docks
• Sheffield and Fullerton avenues — 19 bike docks.
• Cannon Drive and Fullerton Avenue — 19 bike docks.
• Sedgwick Street and Armitage Avenue — 19 bike docks.
• Larrabee and Menomonee streets — 15 bike docks.
• Dayton Street and North Avenue—19 docks.
• Sheffield Avenue and Willow Street — 15 docks.
• North Avenue and Larrabee Street — 19 docks.