Alleycat race

Alleycats (of English. Stray cats ) are scavenger hunts through the city, whose participants are bicycle couriers.

Expiration

A Alleycat is a playful way more or less daily from the courier. In principle, various points ( "checkpoints" ) are abzufahren. Here, tasks are often solved. Such a task may consist, for example, to bring a raw egg intact the goal or solve directly at the checkpoint a brainteaser. Often a task is also to find something at the checkpoint, for example, the inscription of a corporate shield.

The track layout and the tasks, the participants learn shortly before the start of the so-called manifesto, a note with instructions. In this case, the order of the checkpoints to be given, or the combination be left to the driver. The route can be divided between two manifestos, wherein the subscriber receives the second manifest only when he has completed the first.

Often several drivers drive at a Alleycat as a team to get this provide benefits. Happy that groups of local guide and Foreign Affairs. But it also happens that the team during the race divide again or form, because drivers lose or no longer able to keep up with the faster. So many go on alone made ​​the Alleycat to an end.

Events are planned in the short term or performed regularly, examples are known from Vienna, Graz, Zurich and Basel.

Start numbers are not supported, as with other bicycle races at the jersey. Instead, Tarot cards were originally provided with numbers and clamped between the spokes of the front wheel. Meanwhile, the cards are often elaborately decorated and laminated, and gladly left after the race as a trophy in the wheel.