Results

Best Local Non-Profit

#1
Free Ride — Bicycle collective @freeridepgh
71 votes
#2
WMN BikePgh
20 votes
#3 POGOH
POGOH — POGOH provides bikes all over town and participates in many community events and initiatives. @pogohbikes
18 votes

Most Likely to Show Up To A Bike Ride

#1
Furda — Furda
24 votes
#2
Sonja
22 votes
#3
Bingo — Is it even a Give Up ride without Bingo?
21 votes
#4
Mary OC — Mary OC comes to literally every type of bike ride
20 votes
#5
Tiffany
14 votes

Least Likely to Show Up to a Bike Ride

#1 Logan
Logan — IYKYK @aviator_logie
51 votes
#2
Bart — In Memoriam
23 votes
#3
J Doom — He either doesn't come or he leaves right after
20 votes
#4
Mary Ganska — She is a person.
8 votes
#5
Eric Lakatos
2 votes

Best Local Annual Cycling Event

#1
Trash Bag Century — It's a century that GIVE UP runs
63 votes
#2
Pride Critical Mass — Everyone's favorite Pride Ride
38 votes
#3
POGOH Tour de Donut — An excuse to mosey around town with friends
8 votes
#4
WMN Scavenger Hunt — WMN and Non Binary Alley Cat
5 votes
#5
BikeMS Escape to the Lake — Our local MS150 ride
3 votes

Didn’t make the final

  • Frigid Bitch
  • The Pittsburgh Dirty Dozen

Best Bike Photographer

#1
Ben Peoples — He is a man that takes pictures
118 votes
#2
Jason Furda — Divine Mayhem Studios
50 votes
#3
Walt — If Walt passes the group on his Brompton, you know a group photo is coming
25 votes
#4
Murphy Moschetta — Bike photographer @murphyleemoschetta
14 votes

Best Place to Eat After a Bike Ride

#1
East End Brewing — It's Pizza Time!
39 votes
#2
Sidelines — Wing wings wings
20 votes
#3
Sheetz
17 votes
#4
Dads Dog and Burger — Glizzy Gobb
13 votes
#5
The Garden Cafe — It's a cafe with food and drinks
11 votes

Didn’t make the final

  • Food Truck du jour @ Trace

Best Bike / Kit Color Coordination

#1 Walt Haim
Walt Haim — Flawless Velo Drip @walthaim
36 votes
#2 J. Doom
J. Doom — If it aint broke...dont fix it
21 votes
#3
Catherine Wacha — Colors
19 votes
#4 Bingo
Bingo — Sherlock
19 votes
#5
Bichael — He is a hunky boy
11 votes

Friendliest Bicyclist

#1
Adam Cary — C'mon, are you serious? It's Adam! @skananza217
38 votes
#2
Mary O'Connell — She is a person
25 votes
#3
Miche — You know them, you love them, and if you don't you'll definitely meet them
25 votes
#4 Waltifer Baltifer Fe Fi Fo Faltifer
Waltifer Baltifer Fe Fi Fo Faltifer — aka Walt @walthaim
17 votes

Best Regular Group Ride

#1
Critical Mass — 2nd Friday of the month, rain or shine
52 votes
#2
GIVE UP Friday Coffee Ride — It's a ride to coffee every Friday
42 votes
#3
Coffee Outside — It's a ride to coffee every Sunday @coffeeoutsidepittsburgh
9 votes
#4
Mixups — Ideally when Walt leads
6 votes
#5
Make Shift First Saturday North Side Ride — Cool and Casual @makeshiftbikes
1 vote

Didn’t make the final

  • Give Up Monthly Sober Rides
  • Pittsburgh Underwear Ride

Most Bike-Friendly Local Brewery

#1
East End Brewing — A lil jawn that has plenty of bike parking, great pizza, and allows dogs @eastendbrewing
49 votes
#2
Two Frays Brewery — It's a brewery...
33 votes
#3
Trace @tracebrewing
10 votes

Best Local Bike Shop

#1
Thick Bikes — Pgh's ride-or-die shop @thickbikes
33 votes
#2
Kindred
29 votes
#3
Kraynick's — It's a bike shop
23 votes
#4
Free Ride — I think this counts as a bike shop?
19 votes

Favorite Bike Shop Employee

#1
Ike — He runs a bike shop out of his house and will legit do anything to help you @ikes_basement_bike_shop
52 votes
#2
Rocky — He owns Kraynick's
18 votes
#3
Vince at Thick Bikes — The nicest bike shop employee
15 votes
#4
Jenny at Kindred — She rides a pennyfarthing
15 votes

Best Wreck

#1
Jason Andrews — I think Jason's Mix-Up crash wins this category🩸🚑
59 votes
#2
Catherine Wacha — Eating it in a ditch while being towed after a mechanical at Chill Trail Ride.
30 votes
#3
John Dummer/Hannah Obringer — John's never been to biscuit world
15 votes
#4
Kristin's wreck outside of Burghers — Somehow, a wreck made the day better
10 votes
#5
Ted on Chris's Bach Ride — of course he was showing off
5 votes

Didn’t make the final

  • Haley Nugent
  • Ashley, in front of everyone at Crit Mass
  • JimJam’s 67

Best Place to Meet Up After Critical Mass

#1
Titty Sphinx — It's the cemetery. It's technically closed. but hey there's stone tits and probably drinks if someone hits liberty beer on the way down and maybe you'll see a deer?
53 votes
#2
Trace — Come on, you know there's a 50% chance you're going to end up there anyway @tracebrewing
27 votes
#3
4053 Howley - In Memoriam — RIP Jon & Sam's Old House
11 votes

Best Bike-Friendly Ice Cream Stop

#1
Page's — someone has to nominate page's
55 votes
#2
Twisters
12 votes
#3
Winston's
10 votes
#4
The new Brusters on Center Ave — It's a Bruster's on Center ave
6 votes
#5
Berry Fresh Frozen Yogurt
1 vote

Best Non-Alcoholic Beer Stop

#1
Two frays — Brewery @twofraysbrewery
38 votes
#2
The Soft Spot — It's a Lesbian focused cafe and community space
27 votes
#3
East End Pop-up — Located exactly where you need them most @eastendbrewing
17 votes

Best Mechanic

#1
Ike — Of Ike's Basement Bike Shop
47 votes
#2
James Y (JimJamBMX) — How has he not already been nominated?
45 votes
#3
Cottle @CottleBuilt
12 votes
#4
Paul McIntyre — Paul from Thick Bikes!
6 votes

Trashiest Bike

#1 Catherine Wacha
Catherine Wacha — Yes, this is a shameless self nomination @trashbinbikes
58 votes
#2 Chris FYB
Chris FYB — The bike has (had?) a trash bin on the front! @chrisfyb
34 votes

Best Local Bike Club

#1
GIVE UP — A trash bag cycling club
59 votes
#2
Pittsburgh Critical Mass — Are they even a bike club?
30 votes
#3
Pittsburgh Major Taylor Cycle Club - PMTCC
20 votes

Scrappiest Group Ride Leader

#1
Sonja — She'll always get you there, albeit often not on the designated route
49 votes
#2
The Average Critical Mass frontliner — Fighting Cars and Fucking with Cops
37 votes
#3 Catherine Wacha
Catherine Wacha — Listen up, we're gonna ride the shit out of some bikes today! @catherinewacha
29 votes

Best Instagram

#1 Stolen Bikes PGH
Stolen Bikes PGH — Stolen bikes... in Pittsburgh. @stolen.bikes.pgh
49 votes
#2
Ikes Basement Bike Shop — Awesome page
21 votes
#3
Elliott Diamond — Living vicariously through his adventure on the PCT @ediamond21
20 votes
#4
Pittsburgh Critical Mass
18 votes
#5 Trash Bin Bikes
Trash Bin Bikes — One account. One million bikes @trashbinbikes
9 votes

Best TBC 2026 Aid Station

#1
Adam and Bigs — HOT DAWGS
44 votes
#2 Ashley's Pickle Extravaganza
Ashley's Pickle Extravaganza — A celebration of brined cucumbers @ashley_x_smashlee
29 votes
#3
Kara and Miche — Wet wipes and sodas just before the flat home stretch
12 votes
#4
FYB & Bichael — Nancy B's & 9 AM Sodas
7 votes
#5
Helicon Brewing — beers and jon stefaniak making sandwiches in the parking lot
2 votes

Most Likely to Go Hard on Coffee Outside

#1
Adam Cary — Hardest working Aeropress in the biz @skananza217
36 votes
#2
Furda — It's like he enjoys making coffee harder on himself @furdarecord
30 votes
#3
Ryan Maine — The great grandpappy of Coffee Outside Pittsburgh
13 votes

Best GIVE UP Sticker Placement Location

#1 Jeff (also shameless self-nomination)
Jeff (also shameless self-nomination) — The Weinermobile
58 votes
#2 Ashley (more shameless self nomination)
Ashley (more shameless self nomination) — On a Tuk Tuk in Sri Lanka
20 votes
#3 Waltifer (shameless self nomination)
Waltifer (shameless self nomination) — Milano for the Giro d'Italia
13 votes

Most Likely to be Looping

#1 GURT (GIVE UP Racing Team)
GURT (GIVE UP Racing Team) — GO-GURT
38 votes
#2 Adam Cary
Adam Cary — Loops are in his DNA @skananza217
24 votes
#3 Ciro Black
Ciro Black — Who can forget the loops of the winter of ‘24
20 votes

Best Lore

#1
Squid the Cat — Everyone's favorite blind adventure cat @squid.the.eyeless
69 votes
#2
Woshe — Everybody knows her and her Instagram is an escapist fantasy of biking in gorgeous scenery
21 votes
#3
Reddit Kevin — RIP Reddit Kevin
11 votes
#4
Adam Cary — He’s a chaotic good troublemaker
2 votes

Wild Card

#1 Kara
Kara — Best wife @ohidontthinks0
30 votes
#2
Jeff Railsback — What a HELL of a comeback! @livefastdieawesome
27 votes
#3
The Kennywood Gap Trail Closure — Best Good Intention With Terrible Immediate Outcomes
15 votes
#4 Paul
Paul — Bartender on Sundays at the East End Popup @anonymouschronicles
14 votes
#5
Larry — Trikiest Trike
14 votes

Didn’t make the final

  • Chris P
  • Can of Baked Beans
  • David Turner
  • Bobby Bikes
  • Stevie
  • Finn is Baby