Don’t know if this is a national thing or local, but I’ll be goddamned if it isn’t raining and snowing here locally! :rolleyes:
In fact, the forecast is for pretty crappy weather all week. No good deed goes unpunished.
Some charity organization is offering a free pancake breakfast for people who are riding to work. Which would be great, I suppose, if you worked right next door!
Oh yeah. B. B. King died, too.
Great. It would take me 10 hours to bike to work.
It’s “ride your bike to work decade” where I live. 
And yeah, sad about BB. Saw the news in the last week about his declining health and his family. 
You had better get going then!
Every year I’m on vacation for this; I don’t plan it that way, it just happens.
It just occurs to me that its Friday. 
Why is the news reporting this today? Doesn’t a work week normally start on Monday?
Clearly it took the guy that wrote the article four days to get to work on his bicycle.
Apparently Bike To Work Week and Bike To Work Day varies from place to place (Wikipedia cite). Today is Bike To Work Day in my city. I did bike to work today (2.2 miles one way), plus at a credit union along my way they had a bike event with free breakfast and giveaways. Picked up some free reflective ankle bands and Cliff bars.
I’m trying to bike to work at least twice a week for Bike Month. Hopefully I can keep it up even after that.
My work is 25 miles from where I live, and the only direct route from here to there is an interstate which is closed to bike traffic and cuts through an Army base where the local roads are closed to civilian traffic.
According to Google Maps, it would take me about three hours to make my commute by bike and it would involve detouring through three separate areas of uninhabited, unlit rainforest.
Also, I work the graveyard shift.
So I think I’ll just keep on driving to work, thanks.
Great idea but not practical for me. I DO ride the bus regularly, however.
Not practical for the vast majority of people.
Should probably just outlaw bicycles. Make more room for cars.
Seriously, there are a ton of people in my town that could bike to work (or walk). Guess how many actually do? Not a ton. Not even close to a ton. More like, the vast majority don’t.
I bike to the T (subway) every day. My city has an excellent bike-share program, and there is a docking station right at the end of my street. Much better than the bus, and it’s nice to be out on a bike first thing in the morning.
Funny, I’ve seldom seen a steady rain like I did today. Pretty constant all day, and it actually increased between 4 and 6 pm.
Why does god hate bike riders?
I’m just not fit enough to bike 64 miles in a day.
Locally we have changed this to “Bike Anywhere” - for folks who live far from work. There is still probably something you can bike to. We also are doing it over a longer period of time.
Wisconsin moved “bike week” to later, because recent Mays have been cold (of course, June could be too)
Brian
Pfft. I’m an all-year round cyclist in Stockholm. Well, I have been for two years and unfortunately the last two winters have been mild, but I’ve been happily cycling to work (11km each way) in -10C and snow. I even have special winter tyres for my bike, which have metal studs.
Don’t have to worry about that, because I work at home!
I carpool. Biking not being practical, carpool will have to be my contribution.
With the exception of a manager at a retail job that had fully equipped locker rooms with showers, everyone I’ve worked with who biked to work regularly was also the designated smelly person in the office. This is, it seems, the biggest barrier to regular bike commuting becoming feasible for most people in most parts of the country. Sweat smells bad. There’s just no getting around that.