Are you biking to work on Bike to Work Day Friday?

[taterguy]

Or is just another one of those symbolic, meaningless, feel-good gestures?

[hobbit709]

1. Don't own one, physically can't ride one

And even if I could, I wouldn't ride one in Austin at this time of year especially and not in the traffic here.

[whistle]

2. I wonder how many bicycles will be stolen that day? Could taking the bus

...be a substitute for those of us who had our bikes stolen?

[taterguy]

3. Lobby your employer to let you park your bike inside

Bikes really don't take up too much room.

[DS1]

4. If it's not raining, sure.

[GOTV]

5. Oh, now you're asking for real change. Watch all the gas boycott spammer look the other way!

I don't own a bike but if the gas boycott spammers send out as much email as thy did on their so nothing plan and I get one in my inbox, I'll gladly take the train that day.

[Midlodemocrat]

6. Nope. Walking up two flights to my office.

:rofl:

[IDemo]

7. As (almost) every day n/t

[treestar]

8. I could, thank you for telling me of it. Is it this Friday?

Really, post some reminders, too.

:hi:

[taterguy]

14. Yes this Friday

Different localities are celebrating in different ways which is why I haven't posted any links.

[RB TexLa]

9. This Friday? I have to go to Weatherford and Boyd from Dallas

148 miles, don't think I'm taking the bike for that.

[paparush]

10. I have to drive almost 50 miles to work...guess I could sleep under my desk Thurs night..

: -)

[Samurai_Writer]

11. I bike to work every day it's not raining or snowing

Started about 3 weeks ago. I'm loving it! And saving SOOOO much gas and wear and tear on my car.

[Deep13]

12. Good idea, bike to work, then ride an ambulance to the E-room.

There is no safe place to cycle on the way to work. We're not serious about alternative energy at all, are we?

[taterguy]

13. I've cycled to work most days the past 15 years

Haven't been to the ER yet.
YMMV of course.

[Blue_In_AK]

15. It would be kind of a bumpy ride

down to the basement where my office is. :rofl:

[MissB]

17. I'd have to ride mine *up* from the basement.

:rofl:

Seriously, though my better half rides his bike to work every day, rain or shine. Uphill both ways and all that.

[Debau2005]

16. Nope...taking public transit instead.

[bikebloke]

18. I do it every day, year around.

I think of most of the bike-to-work day pedallers as one-day-a-year hypocrites. It's a play day. Come Monday, they'll be back in their cars or on the Metro. What's more, most go home early, because you don't see them during the usual commute time home.

And the wobblies get in the way. They don't abide to keeping to the right.

[guitar man]

19. it's almost 100 miles from home to work, but

yes, I'm taking my bike to work :evilgrin:















In fact, I take it almost every trip from about april through november :bounce:

[DrunkenMaster]

38. congratulations

Your "bike" is worse for the environment than a freaking Hummer.

You rebel, you.

[Sanctified]

20. No way I could ever bike to work.

On average I drive 50 miles a day and it's all over the city.

[taterguy]

21. Lots of people can bike 50 miles in one day

It just takes practice

[Sanctified]

43. I run a mobile computer repair business.

I would get one hell of a work out carrying all my tools on my bike.

[taterguy]

22. Shameless kick

So that there's at least one thread here that doesn't have anything to do with people who died today

[Telly Savalas]

25. It's a good thread.

Friday's partly cloudly with highs in the mid-70's. I'm biking.

We've had so much damn rain in the last couple months that it's hard to get in a rhythm, so I've been taking the bus a lot.

[magellan]

23. I would but

...my husband won't let me ride my bike in the house...and I won't let him either. (We work at home. :))

[Rob H.]

24. I'd bike to work every day if I didn't have this stupid limitation

called "mortality". I only live four miles from work but three of it is on a major thoroughfare where the speed limit is 50MPH--and people often do at least 55 or 60--with no bike lanes and (mostly) no shoulder to speak of. :(

[taterguy]

28. Living in fear is just another way of dying before your time

To paraphrase the song that lyric is from: Shut your mouth and get your ass on a bike :)

[Rob H.]

29. Can I walk instead? I'd do that!

:P

[taterguy]

33. You can do anything you want this is America

But we would all be better off if people stopped and thought about their transportation choices and whether or not a car is really necesary for all trips.

[Strelnikov_]

26. No. But I will be Mon-Thur as I have been the last 2 years

once I became aware of imminent peaking of energy.

Rain or shine, through snow and sleet (well, at some point in winter I am forced to walk for a month or so).

My shoulder still hurts from when I injured it as I went down hard in a minor snow shower in February.

I really need to spend the summer coming up with a three-wheel, four season solution. As the streets are generally clear long before the sidewalks (since only about half the people seem to clear their walks anymore) a 3-wheeler would probably be the safest way to get around in snowy/icy conditions, as walking can be its own special adventure, especially after a prolonged period of snow cover. Luckily I traverse mostly residential streets, and only have to cross the four lane+ ribbons of death. Only problem is the 4' wide sidewalk under a RR overpass adjacent to a particularly nasty ribbon of death, as a three wheeler width would be problematic on meeting opposing 'traffic'.

[dysfunctional press]

27. nope. i don't work

permanently disabled.

as for my wife- also no, because it's WAY too far to bike.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

30. No Way.

I work 15 miles away. Ain't gonna happen LOL

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[Stephanie]

44. You work?

I thought you were a professional toy car racer.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

47. Forgive Yourself.

You think a lot of things that aren't true.

[Stephanie]

56. Really, Ralph?

[Catherine Vincent]

31. No. n/t

[SeattleGirl]

32. Nope, 'cause my office is in my home.

I have a rather easy commute. :)

[AtomicKitten]

34. nope, I work at home

and riding a bicycle in SF is an E ticket ride

[Left Is Write]

36. I don't have a bike or a safe bike route to my job.

[DrunkenMaster]

37. I bike to work every day!

I love the posts here that use the distance excuse, as if people have no control over where they live...

If we are going to survive the next century and build a sustainable nation, we must revive our notion of community -- live where you work, shop and eat locally, support local media.

[Book Lover]

49. I am perfectly willing to take donations in order to live in San Francisco

That is, if you are willing to do some put up or shut up of your own.

[alarimer]

39. Absolutely not

I am not going to work on Friday.

[uppityperson]

40. I haven't heard about Bike to Work Day Friday.

[taterguy]

45. That's because bikes have less of an advertising budget than cars

It's a day where people are encouraged to try biking to work, just to see if they'd like to make a habit of it, celebrated in various ways depending on your location.

Google it for your town for more info.

[Clark2008]

41. How would a professional woman do this, I ask?

Many working women must wear hose, skirts (or nice slacks) and nice shoes and keep a nice hair-do in order to fit company guidelines for proper work attire.

I've always wondered how a professional woman rides a bike (or a motorcycle) to work as a result.

We could start a sub-thread about why women are required to dress this way, but I'd rather not. It conflates the issue and that is, most professional women must wear these things and keep their hair in some order to do their jobs. It shouldn't matter, but it does.

But, I'll conclude and say that it really doesn't matter to me, though, right now. I'm sitting here with some minor contractions. If I go anywhere on Friday, it will be to the hospital to deliver a baby and, no, I won't be riding a bike.

[Gormy Cuss]

46. If you ride the bike today your labor may progress more quickly.

I'm kidding but a friend of mine swears that a bike ride started hers and she was ever thankful because junior was overdue and she was so big and uncomfortable that she was ready to try ANYTHING.

As for your question of how a professional woman does it, first and foremost she must choose a hairstyle that survives helmet head. Second, shoes can be left in the desk or carried in a pannier or small backpack. Third, the easiest way to accomplish the rest of your professional outfit is to buy clothes that don't wrinkle easily and wear bike shorts under skirts or if you are fortunate enough to have a discreet way to enter the building and head straight for the ladies' room wear comfortable biking pants to work and change as soon as you arrive. A trip to the ladies also always for a little freshening up of the hair and makeup.

I've done it. It works in all but the stuffiest of environments. I didn't bike every day -- that would have been a challenge in bad weather. I averaged of one day a week in three seasons. Some weeks it would be three days, others none at all. It was by far the easiest in a company where the dress code was relaxed.

[Clark2008]

55. LOL - thanks for the tip, but doc has me on bedrest because

I AM having contractions. I'm still too early, but she'll be more than 36 weeks by Friday. She's already big and her bio-physicals are good, so doc says if I go into labor after 36 weeks, he won't stop me again.

I see what you're saying, but, I just don't know how I'd ever bike as far as I would have to to get to work without being in need of a shower. Maybe if I lived a bit closer and didn't do it in the summer, I could avoid the sweat.

I'm in the Steamy South, though. It's hard to move in the summer it's so humid. Whew!

[smalll]

42. I probably will, have been every day it isn't raining recently -

It takes me 20 minutes to get to work on the bicycle, it takes me 50 minutes or more on the bus, and that's only in the morning - in the afternoon, the bus take even longer. Plus, New York City busses (or at least the Bronx no. 9 bus) has a terrible tendency in non-winter months to have the AC cranking at just about all times. You freeze yourself with the AC blowing down on you. I have to take a jacket (with a hood) to work if I go on the bus, just to avoid pneumonia on the ride home!

[Connie_Corleone]

48. No.

[taterguy]

51. Why not?

[Connie_Corleone]

54. If you have to know...It's too far to ride a bike, I don't own a bike,

I wouldn't get very far if I did try to ride a bike to work, and I catch a bus to work to save my gas money and parking fees.

[Monk06]

50. No, biking AT work on my '91 Cannondale Delta V and my new hydro trainer.

[RedCappedBandit]

52. don't have a bike

might be getting one for the future, though

[SallyMander]

53. I hadn't heard about it...

...but i bike to work every day, so i'm all good!

My fiance just got me a Bianchi Milano... it's the prettiest bike in the world, so i like to ride it everywhere i can!

[taterguy]

57. You're right, that is a gorgeous bike