Deck the Bikes 2024

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Yes, soon it will be time to start thinking about your entry for the 2024 Deck the Bikes competition! Last year’s event was a resounding success considering it was Wrightsville’s first ever. We had 12 entries, some of which were sponsored by local businesses and others by local artists. The entries could be categorized as Artistic, Clever or Funny, or by their Trail-town theme.

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In 2024, we plan for bigger and better prizes to attract more entries. Our first place winner in 2023, Jes Zelner, will be on a caffeine rush for quiet a while with her $100 gift card to the Trail-Town business, Coffee and Cream in Columbia, PA. Her bike is preserved in the Boro building with the town’s Christmas decorations so we can showcase it for 2024’s event.

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The second-place winner, Alicia Ferrari, donated her bike to Common Wheels in Lancaster, PA . They decided to display in the storefront window for the 2024 Christmas season. If you don’t know about Common Wheels yet, an introduction from their website sums it up: “Inspired by our passion for bikes and the community we call home, we’ve built our organization to have a maximum impact in transforming lives through bikes.” Of the 11 entries in Deck the Bikes 2023, 9 of them were donated by the owners to Common Wheels after the competition.

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In 2024, we plan to notify the local high schools about the event early in the summer, and invite their art and technical school departments to create entries for Deck the Bikes as a class project. Since so many businesses were interested in sponsoring entries in 2023, we plan to expand that program for 2024.

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Deck the Bikes 2024 will accept entries that are full bikes decked out for the holidays or in a trail town theme, as well as bike parts that have been assembled into artwork. The second and third place prizes in the 2023 competition, awarded to Alicia Ferrari and Home Goodies in Columbia, were an example of bike-parts artwork. Both were wreaths made from the wheels of a bike that was pulled from the Susquehanna River.

So, start sketching your design for the 2024 Wrightsville Second Ever Deck the Bikes Competition!