Registered cities 2011

luk — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:05:00 +0000

So far we have:

Helsinki

Amsterdam

Milano

Quito, Equador

Boston

Washington, DC

San Diego

Zürich

Wien

Vancouver

Toronto

Lausanne

Chicago

Mexico City

Minneapolis

Hannover

Köln

Berlin

Warsaw

Graz

San Francisco

Turku

Tampere

Melbourne

Cracow

San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Frankfurt

Graz

Bogota

Tokyo

Santiago

Calgary

Kassel

Kharkiv, Ukraine

Kharkov, Ukraine

Adelaide

Global Gutz?

luk — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:09:33 +0000

The idea of Global Gutz is to have a live traffic bicycle courier race in lots of cities all over the world, starting simultaneously, e.g. at 1 p.m. in San Francisco, and 4 p.m. in New York, etc. and held over a given distance and a given amount of checkpoints in an effort to try to make race conditions as equal as possible for everyone. This way we can have a world wide competition without spending a lot of money for traveling somewhere. Everyone will just be racing in their hometown knowing that in various cities around the world there are messengers racing with or against them, and the first male and female competitors to finish will be the lucky winners.
Why is this idea so fresh? First of all, it doesn’t take much of an effort to organize. Then, everybody gets to stay home and still race in an international courier competition, and finally we all have the chance to be part of something greater than our daily strive and maybe win and be the fastest in your city or the world.

One fact proved difficult in the first global gutz: we couldn’t find a format to allow for everybody to race at a decent time (i.e. either the Australians or the U.S. west coast would have had to start early in the morning). This made us think that we should have two “time zones”

This year the cities can choose between 2 time zones to race.

Time zone 1 is on Saturday June 19. Start time for Los Angeles would be 4 am. Start time for London would be noon. Start time for Sydney would be 10 pm.

Time zone 2 is on Saturday June 19. Start time for Los Angeles would be 1 pm. Start time for London would be 9 pm. Start time for Sydney would be Sunday June 20 6am.

Cities can choose which time zone is best for them. Surely for some cities only one of the starting times makes sense.

LA 1pm
Chicago 3pm
NYC 4pm
London noon or 9pm
Berlin 1pm or 10pm
Zimbabwe 2p or 11pm
Tokyo 9pm
Sydney 10pm

Cities are encouraged to post their course online so that we can see each others courses. A simple course via gmaps will do. Send the map link to info@globalgutz.org (But don’t make your course map public until after the race)

Setting up a Global Gutz race in your hometown is simple. See the rules.

Global Gutz 2010

luk — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:53:23 +0000

Global Gutz 2010 - save the date!! The annual Worldwide Bicycle Messenger Race will take place on the weekend of the 19th of June 2010!

The headquarter of the 2010 Global Gutz will be in Basel . We take your citys race registration now at register@globalgutz.org

The worlds fastest male and female win return flights to CMWC 2010 in Panajachel, Guatemala!