🏍️ Reloaded Labs #01: Gear Recognition Challenge

Description

A rider. A used jacket. A smartphone. Can your app make the right call?

📅 Saturday 21 November 2026

📍 Moto Reloaded, 508 Herald Street, Victoria, BC

🕘 Doors open at 09:00 · Hackathon starts at 10:00 · Estimated finish at 18:00 

Register here: https://luma.com/ylw4hauh

💡 The challenge

Moto Reloaded is exploring how technology could support a secondary market for protective motorcycle gear through reuse and upcycling. How could your unique perspective and app help shape the process, from a rider taking a photo to deciding whether an offer should be made?

We’re looking to see how you imagine that process working. Bring your curiosity, ingenuity, and favourite AI tools to bear on a solution, drawing on development, design, image analysis, or motorcycle-gear knowledge. Explore where technology can help and where a person’s expertise fits in. Work in a team of one to four, or come on your own and join one on the day.

🛠️ What we provide

The challenge materials and guidance you need to get started and understand how your solution will be scored:

🧥 Real gear, a photo dataset, expert input, and the scoring rubric.

☕ Workspace, Wi-Fi, morning refreshments, lunch, and afternoon snacks.

Bring your laptop, smartphone, and tools and subscriptions of choice.

⛴️ Travelling from the Lower Mainland?

If you’re coming from the Lower Mainland without a car, let us know in advance and we’ll arrange pickup at the ferry and drop-off afterwards.

🏆 The details

💻 Build and share: Create your solution on the day, then present it in a five-minute demo and short Q&A.

🥇 First place: CAD $1,000

🥈 Second place: CAD $500

🥉 Third place: CAD $100

📝 Participation: You must be 18 or older and sign a participant agreement covering ownership and licensing before building. You retain ownership of your work.

🛡️ Safety: Solutions must not claim to certify a garment’s protective performance or recommend offers on crashed gear or gear damaged or repaired in protective areas.

🎯 Keep it focused: Listings, shipping, repairs, and model training are outside the challenge.

Register here: https://luma.com/ylw4hauh