any plans for bike to work day?

[Bike Goddess]

Yep, Barb, I'd leave my roadie home too! Maybe you'll need some rainwear for that automatic sprinkler. While you're at it, how about a broom! (I'd probably contact the city maintenance dept and see if they will do a clean up job- having glass isn't safe for anyone much less cyclists)

[mommelisa]

no plans for me, i work from home, so it would be a pretty short ride..

[CorsairMac]

no plans for me, i work from home, so it would be a pretty short ride..

maybe you could ride that day and carry some work with you on the bike........a kinda "virtual" ride to work day!

[Hill Slug]

Here's another Sacramento, CA area website:
http://www.bikecommuteweek.com/
I signed up with Kaiser Permanente as my employer and Sacramento Bike Hikers for my club. The Bike Hikers have the most club miles so far!!!

I can only ride to work a few days a month. I get off at 11pm, and the main road home has a few miles of open land, that is scary. Seriously if someone were to bump me off in that area, no one would find me for months.... When I do ride in, I have someone pick me up....I know it kinda defeats part of the purpose, but I'd rather live to ride another day!!! Last week, I had a chicken almost run me into the road!!! I was totally not expecting her to be there...whew!!!

[Raindrop]

I'm an in-home personal trainer, so getting to my clients homes with all my equipment on my bike isn't doable (they'd be pretty upset with my lateness too!), however, I plan on "biking to work" for my gym jobs which means I'll be riding my bike to teach an indoor cycling class...ironic somehow huh?

[Trek420]

Hill Slug near miss "Last week, I had a chicken almost run me into the road!!! I was totally not expecting her to be there...whew!!! "

why did the chicken cross the road?

[CorsairMac]

Loved that Trek! I was thinking more along the lines of "Ahhhhhh, free dinner!".

[Hill Slug]

why did the chicken cross the road?

She actually didn't cross the road, just came up on the shoulder, then back down in the drainage ditch....So maybe, I scared her too!!!!

[singletrackmind]

maybe you could ride that day and carry some work with you on the bike........a kinda "virtual" ride to work day!

Almost any day I ride I carry my work with me in a trailer. He's great company with his songs and comments (go faster momma, faster). Ahhh, the life of the stay at home mom has precious little to do with bonbons (unless they need to be cleaned up after).

[CorsairMac]

What an Awesome visual Sing!!....thanks for ending my evening with an "awww smile"!

[yellow]

Well, in an attempt to ride every day of "Bike to Work Week", I'm only 20% at this point.

It was pouring yesterday morning, so that made it a no-go.

I rode today and got soaked coming home (at least the morning commute was dry-ish).

This rainy rainy rainy is making me mopey mopey mopey. I was going to extend my ride this evening on the way home but decided food and a fire were better (I don't ever remember having to light fires in May before. What's wi' dat?).

Even the dog is mopey 'cuz we can't go out and play with the flying squirrel.

And it's supposed to rain the rest of the week, though there's only a 20% chance of rain for Friday

So I guess I'll wait until morning to decide if I should break out the raingear or get in my car and drive to work.

I feel like I'm back livin' in the PNW. (Except that this year they've been getting our weather, I hear. Hope they are enjoying it!)

mopeyellow

[Veronica]

Ahhh... the beauty of a very short commute and fenders. I manage to ride even in a downpour. But I have increased my commute to be 1.9 miles each way rather than 1.6. That will give me three more miles a week, 12 miles a month. I was very excited to see the new route was a tad longer and it's still almost all downhill to work. Can't get all sweaty before school even starts you know.

V.

[Trek420]

that's it, that says it....hmmm. head for the puddles?

[Trek420]

Ok, I woke up at 4 am and it was pouring outside. Got up anyway, got ready, at 6 it was still raining hard so I text message Erin and said I still planned to ride but would leave about my normal time if it let up at all.

By 6:30 it had all but stopped, really just a mist so I got Mae's (dog) stuff outside, grabbed the bike and headed out the door.

By the time I had locked up the heavens opened again and it was pretty much a downpour.

I'm dressed for rain, lit up like a Christmas tree but I'm a fair weather cyclist at heart, normally don't head out in the rain. I'm fine if caught in it but don't ride in the rain on purpose.

So I'm thinking to my self "self? I've arranged for 2 hours off, I could go back inside and wait for a break". Mae also is looking at me as if to say "you know we both could be inside right now watching GMA" when my neighbor comes out in bathrobe and slippers to take the garbage out.

She sees me in full bike gear, schoolbuss yellow rain jacket, Velogirls jersey and says incredulously "you're riding??!! In this??!". Without thinking I say "It's bike to work day, yep, I'm riding" Damn right I'm riding, so off I go.

The ride to BART was wet but fun, like stomping in puddles once I got going. In BART I stood next to a first-time bike commuter, poor guy got the brunt of my sermon "why you should wear a helmet".

By the time I got off the train at Lake Merrit it had stopped raining so I had a nice ride to the first refresher station.

Then turned towards Downtown Oakland and rode with a group of women cyclist which I think included one of the Oakland City Council members on a rented bike. They took a different route than I would have, went down Broadway, we agreed that a left on Webster would have been better but I decided to stick with the group. One of them commented that she felt safer with me there because of my screaming yellow rain gear and bright blinky Velogirls blinky light on my backpack. I'm happy to help.

At Downtown Oakland I picked up more bike schwag, coffee and a free Bike to Bart t'shirt still arrived with time to clean up and get ready to work.

happy Bike to Work Day TE

[Bike Goddess]

Well, I didn't bike to work today- but I public transit ALL the way!
At the Pleasant Hill BART station I found CindySue- she got treats from me and I got bike treats from her including the infamous RED BULL!

Sunday when I go on the Napa ride I'm takin my can!

It was great to see CS- she's a real trooper- rain and all there she was with her red rain bike!

CindySue- you should tell everyone what you do for a living! It's way cool!