Cranksgiving 2023 results

Cranksgiving Charlotte collected 865 lbs of food for Loaves and Fishes North Carolina. Thank you to Charlotte Cyclery, It clips USA, CyclingSavvy and the Charlotte Dept of Transportation for the prize donations. Shoutouts to Team Gobble Gobble and Team P-ride.

Past Events

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Cranksgiving 2023

When: November 12, 2023 at 2 pm.

Where: Sip City, 917 Central Ave, Charlotte, NC 28204.

Cranksgiving is a food drive on two wheels. Part bike ride, part food drive, and part scavenger hunt. All you need is a bike, a bag, and a lock! It’s an annual event occurring in many USA cities around Thanksgiving, a charity bicycle ride to collect food for our neighbors in need. We started hosting Cranksgiving in 2013.

Bring your waiver and enter the raffle to guess how much food we’ll collect in total.

You’ll race to some grocery stores with your list, (bring some $ for purchases) and weigh in at the end. Let’s see how much food we can collect in 2 hours. Wouldn’t it be great to collect a TON?

Ride ends: Charlotte Cycles Sales Center, 601 S Kings Drive, Suite CC

Turn in all food donations before 4 pm.

Donations to: Loaves & Fishes/Friendship Trays, Inc

In partnership with Charlotte Cycles. Benefits: Loaves & Fishes/Friendship Trays, Inc. Hashtag: #CranksgivingCLT

Email pamlikestobike@gmail or dm on Instagram.

Please contact me to help plan and organize.

Cranksgiving 2022

Thank you to everyone riding! We collected a total of 610 lbs of food and a generous donation.

Team Gobble Gobble collected the most food at 143 lbs.

Team P-Ride collected 33.75 lbs/person which was the most per person.

Keith collected 47 lbs all by himself.

Evan guessed 515 lbs which was the closest.

Bring your friends for next year!

Cranksgiving is an annual event occurring in many USA cities around Thanksgiving, a charity bicycle ride to collect food for our neighbors in need — part bike ride, part food drive, and part scavenger hunt. All you need is a bike, a bag, and a lock! We started hosting Cranksgiving in 2013.

You’ll race to some grocery stores with your list, (bring some $ for purchases) and weigh in at the end. List your name and team (optional).

Ride Starts: Legion Brewing Plaza Midwood, 906 Commonwealth Ave,Charlotte, NC 28205

Sign the waiver signature sheet and guess how much food we’ll collect in total.

Ride ends: Charlotte Cycles Sales Center, 601 S Kings Drive, Suite CC

Proceeds benefit Loaves & Fishes/Friendship Trays, Inc

In partnership with Charlotte Cycles. Benefits: Loaves & Fishes/Friendship Trays, Inc. Hashtag: #CranksgivingCLT

Email pamlikestobike@gmail or dm on Instagram; also on Facebook.

Cranksgiving 2021

We’re still in a pandemic so no rules or races. The idea is to have a food drive on bikes to help replenish the Loaves and Fishes food bank.

Ride on your own, form your own group or come to the start to ride together. You pick your adventure. I’ll post a route next week. Check back here. In the spirit of the event, we’ll be riding to 4 stores. If you’d like me to plan a route for you, please email me at pamlikestobike@gmail.

Start location: Legion Brewing, 1906 Commonwealth Ave.

Please sign and email me your waiver. Or bring it and turn it in at the finish. Thanks!

You can choose to weigh in with a team name. Some suggestions could be:

Tarheel Trailblazers
PMTNR
P-ride
Thursday Night Lights
Fixed Federation
Ladies of the East
Sunday Coffee Ride
L.U.B.E.
NoDa Social Ride
Dirt Divas
Cranksisters

Loaves and Fishes Priority Needs:

Canned Meat: Tuna, Chicken, etc…
Canned Fruit: low sugar or in juice
Pastas – Canned or Dry Boxed
No Glass Please
Low Sodium Canned Vegetables
Peanut Butter

End location: Charlotte Cycles, 337 Baldwin Ave. Get there before 4 to weigh your food. Please let them know if you are on a team. Please print, sign and turn in your waiver with your food donations.

Idea: Ask your neighbors to leave donations on their porch. Or post on Nextdoor. Pick them up on the day of the event by bike.

Donations will also be accepted at Charlotte Cycles on Saturday (11/20) during store hours.

Cranksgiving 2020

This year is different. No rules, no manifests, no races….

Due to COVID-19 , this will be a drop off event instead of the group event it has been in years past. Ride your bike to drop off your food donations on Saturday, Nov. 14 or Sunday, Nov. 15. Cash/check donations also accepted. Every $1 buys 4 lbs of food. Make checks payable to Loaves and Fishes. Your employer may match your donation.

Sat, Nov 14 – Sun, Nov 15
Benefitting Loaves and Fishes
Drop off your food Sat or Sun at Charlotte Cycles – 337 Baldwin Ave. Sat from 11-5 or Sun from 1-4. Sign up for a drop off time.

The ride is free! You’ll need to buy your food donations.
Remember to bring a backpack, reusable bags, or some way to transport your food. Bring your waiver.

When you get to Charlotte Cycles, weigh your food and give us your email if you want to be entered to win a prize. We’ll have a few raffle prizes and a few prizes for fun social media posts and maybe another for most food collected (by weight). If you want to be on a team, just write in the team name and we’ll tally up the results.

Here’s the fb event. Please share it with your friends!

#CLTCranksgiving2020 on Instagram

See past events below.

Cranksgiving 2017

Save the date: Sunday, Nov. 19th, 2017
Benefiting Loaves and Fishes
Time: Registration at 1:30pm, Ride/race starts at 2 pm
Start: Legion Brewing – 1906 Commonwealth Ave.; Charlotte, NC 28205
End: Charlotte Cycles – 337 Baldwin Ave.

The ride is free! You’ll need to bring your own cash* to buy food donations at each checkpoint. Remember to bring a backpack or some way to transport your food and a reusable bag (if you want some bonus points).

Cranksgiving 2016

Save the date: Sunday, Nov. 13th, 2016
Benefiting Loaves and Fishes
Time: Registration at 1:30pm, Ride/race starts at 2 pm
Start: Legion Brewing – 1906 Commonwealth Ave.; Charlotte, NC 28205
End: Charlotte Cycles – 337 Baldwin Ave.

*Please note: you can apply for a sponsor to pay for the food. We just need a couple of willing riders.

Check in at Legion, gather your manifest and set off on your bicycle on your journey to gather items to donate. You will have a two hour time limit to complete your ride or race. Watch the Cranksgiving facebook page for updates and details.

Riders may choose to compete individually or as a group. There will be prizes for both!

Or we’ll ride around as a group collecting the food and weigh it all at the end. I’ll post a route shortly.

Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1135835546506334/

Rules:

You can choose to race (alleycat) or ride.

You can race as an individual or on a Team (up to 4).

Everyone is welcome to ride and donate food.

Our goal is 2,000 lbs of food!

Go to at least 5 stores.
Donate at least 5 items.
Earn 1 point for each item.
Keep all receipts
Return before 4 pm.
Remember: bring your own bags.

(1 bonus point per store).

Alley Cat Race Rules:

Individuals: Earn the most points (at least 15 points) within 2 hrs

Teams: (maximum of 4 riders):

Donate the most food (by weight) within 2 hrs

Bonus points for donations

(7 lb credit for each dollar)

Shopping List: (No Glass or perishables)

Canned protein (peanut butter, tuna, beans, canned ham)
Pasta
Dried Beans
Rice
Lentils
Cereal
Canned fruit
Canned vegetables

About Cranksgiving

Cranksgiving is an annual event occurring in many USA cities around Thanksgiving. Beginning in New York at the turn of the century, Cranksgiving is a charity bicycle ride to collect food for our neighbors in need.

Cranksgiving 2015

November 8th, 2015

Benefiting Second Harvest Food Bank

Time: Registration at 1:30pm, Ride/race starts at 2 pm

Start: Gumbo: The Store, 1916 Commonwealth Ave, Charlotte, NC 28205 [map]

End: TBA

2014 Cranksgiving

It rained all day but a small group of 8 riders collected about 300 pounds of food. Let’s hope for sunnier skies next year.

November 23rd, 2014

Benefiting Loaves & Fishes

Time: Registration at 1 pm, Ride/race starts at 2 pm

Start: Ecolicious, 1916 Commonwealth Ave, Charlotte, NC 28205 [map]

Finish: Comet Grill, 2224 Park Rd, Charlotte, NC 28203 [map]

Join up on the Facebook Event page: j.mp/crankycat

The ride is free! You’ll need to bring your own cash to buy food donations at each checkpoint.

Check in at Ecolicious, gather your manifest and set off on your bicycle on your journey to gather items to donate to a local charity. You will have a two hour time limit to complete your tasks and finish at The Comet Grill.

Riders choose to compete individually or as a group. There will be prizes for both!

Rules

[They’re still being updated to keep it exciting for everyone!]

Beneficiary

This year, the Charlotte Cranksgiving is benefiting Loaves & Fishes, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nondenominational organization that provides a week’s worth of nutritious groceries to individuals and families in a short-term crisis.

2013 Cranksgiving

The 2nd annual Charlotte Cranksgiving was organized in 2013 by Charlotte Spokes People and collected 834 pounds of food for Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina and Food Not Bombs-Charlotte, NC.

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